New low price on a really good hum eliminator / ground-loop isolator
This just came across my Inbox (part of the Christmas buying madness, I'm sure):
http://www.zzounds.com/item--ARTDTI These work wherever you need to go from balanced to unbalanced or vice-versa, or to break a ground loop. They have RCA, 1/4 and XLR connectors on both sides, so they can work like an adapter too. Best of all, they're completely isolated from one side to the other, so they will break even the nastiest ground loops. They have beefy transformers that don't distort the audio, at least that I can tell (and I'm fairly picky). The audio specs are excellent on them.
I own two of these and I can honestly say that they work great. I have one between the unbalanced line out from my PC soundcard and the balanced in on my mixer (that one is to break a ground loop and to re-balance the PC output), and I have another between the 1/4 mixer out and the XLR in on my electronic crossover.
These were a great deal when I got them at the higher price. (And of course, I'm not afficiated with ART or Zzounds, just passing on the good news to all you fine peeps.)