How to get balanced inputs working

Dac is connected with digital cable to cdp

Is the digital cable RCA or XLR?

And, repeating my earlier question, what is the model number of the DAC?

Regards,
-- Al

The audio horizon dac is the modded 3.0n to svt 90% of there $7400 ref dac it's very very musical and very analog sounding , had the Weiss dac here , mbl , sugden and antelope , beats them very easily , the low level detail scary good

Does the digital cable, that is connected between the DAC and the CDP, have RCA connectors or does it have XLR connectors?

Regards,
-- Al

Connections between dac and cdp is rca

It appears, as is typically the case, that the XLR/RCA switch on the Audio Horizons 3-series DACs selects between the XLR and RCA digital INPUT connectors, and has nothing to do with which analog output connector is being used. The XLR and RCA analog output connectors are presumably driven simultaneously, as Brf indicated.

So the reason that you hear nothing when "XLR" is selected is that nothing is connected to the XLR digital input connector. The MBL preamp has nothing to do with the issue.

The bottom line: Hey, no problem!

Regards,
-- Al