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givoltage
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Feb 10, 2018
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Not sure if I understand the wiring correctly. For mini XLR connectors on Audeze, there are 4 pins, meaning each cup requires 4 wires. The Exo provides 2 wires/cup, and X6 series 3 wires/cup. How could you properly wire all pins with fewer than 4 wires?
givoltage
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Feb 11, 2018
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eliraMy Audeze LCD-XC uses 4 pins to drive each driver. All 4 pins are useful! If you wire only two pins it will make a sound but the other two pins are essential to ensure the headphones work as designed and perform at their best.
elira
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Feb 11, 2018
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givoltageIt’s possible that all four pins are connected to something but you only need two wires. If you think about it if you are using a single ended connection you are only using 3 connections: left, right and ground. Each driver need its hot wire (right or left) and ground. In a balanced connection you only need Right+ and Right- for the right driver, even if you had four cables those will be connected to the same place the first two are connected.
givoltage
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Feb 12, 2018
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eliraI don't think the 4 pins for each Audeze cup only serve as + and - connections in which case 2 of the 4 pins are redundant.
givoltage
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Feb 12, 2018
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eliraYou have a good point there. It is entirely possible, although for convenience Audeze could have simply chosen something with 2 pins, such as 2.5 mm TRS... not totally convinced if the diagram is correct or is interpreted as intended. In the balanced mini-XLR diagram, two black pins (1, 4) could mean + and -, and the other two ground. Ground in general is not the same as the negative connection, but I don't know where ground wires would go... The full 4-pin XLR doesn't have a ground.
I guess there's no way of finding out besides cutting open the factory cable and see.
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