u/juliodulio

Wondering if I'm being an idiot...

I have a couple of Ethercon>XLR boxes that I connect with shielded CAT6E.

With traditional balanced XLR cables, everything works as expected.

I am trying to do something unconventional, and it may or may not be possible... Other posts indicate that analog audio should work with Ethercon, but that may be for balanced signals only.

For an IEM mix, I have two unbalanced AUX outputs from a mixer combined into a TRS (for stereo IEM). If I put this directly into my headphone amp, all is well, it sounds great.

But I take that TRS and connect it to the XLR of one of my Ethercon boxes (T=pos, R=neg, S=gnd). On my other Ethercon box, I take the XLR back to TRS and feed that to a headphone amp.

There is a ground issue. If I touch the metal case of the headphone amp there's a loud hum. If I touch the metal chassis of my mixer, the hum pretty much disappears. This makes me think the Ethercon setup is not properly passing ground from my mixer to my headphone amp.

Is what I am trying to do not possible, foolish, or dangerous (or all three?)

Is there a better approach to doing a wired IEM mix through this Ethercon snake setup?

(edit: I'm using CAT6E, not CAT5E)

(kind of a repost from r/DSOrchestra)

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