XLR RCA Adapters in Los Angeles?

So Howard made it LA in record time?

Yep, thanks to my wife's driving & no traffic. We're going to the HE2006 show Friday morning. Can't wait to hear the new Tandy monoblocks.

Don't get the cheap quality one from your local music store. I've tried it from my Marantz SA11-S1 to MF A308 cr pre-amp, and it sounds worse than from the RCA output.

I've found the Cardas XLR Adapters from dedicatedaudio.com but they quite expensive ($75 per pair), but they seem very well made.

Handmade Electronics has Cardas XLR/RCA adapters for $24/ea. Also, I recently tried some XLR/RCA adapters from Audiogon seller "inifinity_audio". The inifinity_audio adapters are kind of handy because the RCA plug is wired to the XLR plug with about an inch of braided silver wire. The RCA plug hangs, therefore, and the adapter fits in tighter places where the extra length of one-piece, solid XLR/RCA adapters might be an issue.