I bought this RDL TX-J2 yesterday from a person on Carousell. He was selling it at a very good price and I just could not pass it up. In case you are wondering what the TX-J2 is, it is an unbalanced input transformer designed to sum two unbalanced input signals to a balanced mono output. It features two gold-plated RCA coaxial input jacks and one mono output via a terminal block. It’s passive design means that no power source is required.
When I got got home, I hooked this up to a spare XLR cable I had and tested it on my trusty Stagepas 500 system. I connected an old Samsung J3 mobile phone to the TX-J2 via the RCA port and connected the XLR cable to one of the XLR inputs on the Stagepas. I then proceeded to play a few jazz songs on Spotify. Let me tell you this…the sound from this was perfect. The input was much hotter and clearer than my SM Pro DJDI. Only the Radial Pro D2 was able to rival it sound-wise.
This TX-J2 will be my new DI box for small gigs, from now on. It is small, perfect to use and sounds absolutely killer. True, it is mono, but some establishments have their speakers set up in such a way where the stereo sound-field is not noticed. I got a good deal for this I feel