scott2000
Well-known member
Hello,
I have a Frontier Design Tango24 that I'm trying to determine what type of balanced output it uses. Is there a simple test, aside from the headphone test that requires an accessible jack, that I can use to find out? So far I've wired some TRS to TS cables because I want to unbalance the Frontier's outputs. I've left the ring floating on the TRS ,hot to tip and tied ground to sleeve from the output side and just wired the TS with tip with the normal tip and ground sleeve for the next input. I've run a sine through it and, when I short the ring and sleeve together from the output of the Frontier, ( I just opened the unit and shorted the actual jack plug from inside),I get a big level increase. Does this tell me that the Frontier outputs are in fact cross coupled? And willJust using simple TS to TS cables will give me an unbalanced output from the Frontier? There's no schematic I can find. Does anyone have any knowledge of this unit or can someone tell me if my test is correct and, if not, what can I do to test for this? I'm a bit lost on the concept aside from understanding that it's important to not short pin 3 to ground on an active balanced and to short it on a transformer or cross coupled output...Thanks so much!
I have a Frontier Design Tango24 that I'm trying to determine what type of balanced output it uses. Is there a simple test, aside from the headphone test that requires an accessible jack, that I can use to find out? So far I've wired some TRS to TS cables because I want to unbalance the Frontier's outputs. I've left the ring floating on the TRS ,hot to tip and tied ground to sleeve from the output side and just wired the TS with tip with the normal tip and ground sleeve for the next input. I've run a sine through it and, when I short the ring and sleeve together from the output of the Frontier, ( I just opened the unit and shorted the actual jack plug from inside),I get a big level increase. Does this tell me that the Frontier outputs are in fact cross coupled? And willJust using simple TS to TS cables will give me an unbalanced output from the Frontier? There's no schematic I can find. Does anyone have any knowledge of this unit or can someone tell me if my test is correct and, if not, what can I do to test for this? I'm a bit lost on the concept aside from understanding that it's important to not short pin 3 to ground on an active balanced and to short it on a transformer or cross coupled output...Thanks so much!