Balanced -> Unbalanced DRV134 the best?

[peranders]

I'm looking for alterantives to DRV134 for converting a balanced signal into an unbalanced one for feeding a power amp. DRV134 is wellknown but anyone who knows about any "high grade" alternative? It's also good if it can be found in SO08-14 or similar.

 

[peranders]

Bump

 

[star882]

All you need is a differential amplifier. But good amplifiers accept differential signals directly.

 

[Minion]

I"m pretty sure the DRV134 is for converting a Unballanced signal into a Ballanced signal not the other way arround ....

if you go to figure 2 on this page it shows how to use an opamp to go from ballanced to unballanced ...

Balanced Line Driver & Receiver


Cheers

 

[peranders]

The topic is wrong... I ment as I wrote unbalanced to balanced.....

 

[Minion]

The topic is wrong... I ment as I wrote unbalanced to balanced.....

Sorta figued that .... Either way that same link has a good circuit for going Unballanced to ballanced , in my opinion better sounding than the DRV134 and really not much more complicated ....


Cheers

 

[Sawzall]

THAT inc. makes a IC that has seen some print that its a better device than the Texas Inst. part, but I don't know if thats true or not. Given that most use the TI part for a pro audio use, not an audiophile one, its possible that a well designed descrete unit would be better - I looked at the issue when I was having a noise problem with a noisy ballast in my big inch TV. Sonically, it made more sense to fix the TV, so thats what I did. Either way, the chips are so cheap, build a prototype of each and test - the powersupply for the unit will cost 10 times the chip (which TI will sample).