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What are active cables and why do so many people use them?
thespacefish:
Was curious of this myself - thank you everyone who posted such thorough answers!
rigpimp:
A good read if you have a spare hour or two:
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=160212.0
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=168809.0
It doesn't necessarily start at the beginning as that was the AKG actives thread. I'm sure that can be found with some digging. It was the genesis of the reverse engineering that created an active cable solution for the AKG CK capsule series...and a legend was born
heathen:
--- Quote from: adrianf74 on March 12, 2018, 06:08:00 PM ---The "preamp" could be anything from a true preamp to PFA's (which allow the active cable to be powered by Phantom Power) to an nBox or baby nBox. The latter two run on 9V power and have either RCA or 1/8" output allowing you to run direct to small deck like an M10, R05, etc.
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Is there an option that allows for either powering via phantom (like PFAs in your description) or powering via battery like the nBox? Kind of a swiss army knife option?
adrianf74:
--- Quote from: heathen on March 12, 2018, 11:07:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: adrianf74 on March 12, 2018, 06:08:00 PM ---The "preamp" could be anything from a true preamp to PFA's (which allow the active cable to be powered by Phantom Power) to an nBox or baby nBox. The latter two run on 9V power and have either RCA or 1/8" output allowing you to run direct to small deck like an M10, R05, etc.
--- End quote ---
Is there an option that allows for either powering via phantom (like PFAs in your description) or powering via battery like the nBox? Kind of a swiss army knife option?
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Easy, get the active cables terminated in some form of small connection (there's a connection that is used for the nbob cables that escapes me right now) and then get PFA and preamp to accept that. That's what I did previously.
heathen:
I meant one box that could connect to the cables and either allow for phantom power or provide battery power.
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