How to go from RCA to XLR?

See pages 28 and 29 of the following paper for a description of how to feed a single-ended signal into a balanced input without major degradion of noise performance. My thanks to Shadorne for calling this paper to my attention.

http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/generic%20seminar.pdf

Regards,
-- Al

My thanks to Shadorne for calling this paper to my
attention.

You're welcome - Bill Whitlock used to work at Capitol Records - he is a member
of IEEE and AES. What he says is obviously designed to help raise awareness and
promote Jensen products but he shoots straight! I would not hesitate to use his
products.

Sounds like you need a single ended to balanced transformer like the Jensen model.

Rww -- I get your drift; touche! :)

But the op should note in the reference that he can get a great deal of noise rejection just with the cabling arrangement that Whitlock describes (his diagram labelled "correct" on page 29), without the expense and possible sonic signature of a transformer.

And as I indicated earlier, even if he just uses the adapter as originally envisioned (Whitlock's diagram labelled "wrong" on page 29), he would have noise performance comparable to a fully single-ended arrangement, which may prove to be satisfactory anyway.

Regards,
-- Al

It should be fairly easy to try anyway if he's still here.