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Originally Posted by rufus13  Hiss is often from gain-staging problems. Nothing broken, just adjusted wrong.
In a simple set-up (short cables, no patch bay), bal or unbal connections makes little difference at line levels.
Are you using powered monitors? A monitor controller or analog preamp?
Chart your analog signal path from PT converter to speaker. You want full output from the D-A converters, then attenuation to desired level at the amp (or powered speaker) input.
Using digital attenuation (low output from D-A converter), and having the amp (or powered speaker) cranked could cause noticeable hiss.
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i had the problem too and i changed all my cables from el-cheapos to mogamis, bought new monitors, did the whole nine...all to no avail!!! only to find out that the glitch was the one thing that no on told me....the input on my protools was set on -10dbv instead of +4dbu....once i switched it back, the hiss was gone (and i needed a preamp on my frontend to get the proper gain going in to pt), but i was back in business! and oddly, when i brought back some el cheapo cables into my mix, they hardly paled in comparison to the mogamis and monsters, i think its a conspiracy!