AUDIO TRANSFORMER - XLR-PHONO

how do you convert rca to xlr this question comes to us from ari in israel and ari writes hi paul is it possible to convert an rca port to an xlr input i saw that there is a passive converter and an active converter what to use for best results best regards well i figured as long you know a day or so ago we were here yapping about darlingtons and transistors and and um i thought well hey we're still here so let's talk let's talk about single-ended versus balanced or xlr versus rca however we want to put it so sometimes it's nice to have the board up here so we can kind of see what's going on so an rca connector is basically two wires right one wire and then sometimes there's a shield around it one wire is ground and the other wire is our signal so when we put into our little i'm not an i'm i'm no artist here so we'll put in our little rca thing and you plug that in right you have a hot