ART DTI Reviews

Accidentally bought this thinking it was a DI, but useful

I mistook this product as a stereo DI which was a bummer as its classified under that product category, but it proved useful for cleaning up cable runs with ground issues at the source. Only downside is that it takes an extra cable to hook up.

I never thought this would work!

I have been suffering a high pitched whistle on my KRK monitors, since I bought them last month, I tried everything, new cables etc.

Using balanced cables did reduce the noise by 25% but still annoying!

Then a good friend told me about this box!

I have just connected it between my Interface (Mbox) and the monitors, and hey presto, SILENCE! the noise has gone completely.

I am very happy, best 30 quid I have spent in a while!

The unit is small & robust.

I really didn't believe it was gonna work!

I had some issues with ground loop and hiss in my active studio monitors - placed this between converters and monitors and it was gone! Really a problem solver where everything else I tried had failed. Can also isolate keyboards with a grounding issue e.g. on stage. Good connectivity with parallel ins and outs on XLR, TRS jacks and RCA phono.

I can't hear any difference except that the hum is gone. It doesn't weigh much and the box could have been better constructed (not that it seems flimsy, but not so thick steel either, not like e.g Radial) but good enough for me and for the money.

Invaluable peice of kit

I have two of these and will probably end up with more! Hum loops can be a pain when setting up a PA rig in "unknown territory" and it wouldnt be the first time that earth wires have been temporarily removed from mains plugs etc, which whilst solving one problem creates another with regards to potential safety. These little beaties put all that behind us. With just about every possibly combination of in and out through phono, jack and xlr you can isolate 95% of all known audio connections. It is also possible with a little cunning to use it as a balanced signal generator/splitter, by using a short phono to phono link on the input side a single xlr or jack input can be fed to both internal transformers producing two separate, balanced outputs. A trick I have used a few times now.

Sturdy and well built a couople of these should be in every sound techs "goody bag"

Does the job

I've given this a couple of tries in live use as a di-box type of converter. It seems to do the job, but I've been also getting strange hum with certain connections. I was hoping to use the RCA connections with my synth device, but the minimal instructions it comes with advice to use "external ground lug". I have no idea what that is. Still learning my way around this.

good to have one

it is good to have one, when the gig is about to start, and the potential is clogged - humming and buzzing, and there are no wiring alternatives - in those situations i praise the lord for having one. Although don't expect any miracles for such cheap price.

Good DI

I've used this DI to connect from my digital piano to a mixer and to a monitor speaker. Two channel inputs and outputs: two mono jack outputs from the piano to the XLR inputs of the DI, and XLR outputs to the mixer and the monitor. Removed nasty humming and buzzing to the 'minimum' (didn't quite completely eliminated the unwanted sound). But I can only hear it when I stick my ear right next to the speakers. The only issue I found was since the male XLR cables do not click or lock on the input female channels, they seemed to slip off sometimes which made me to check regularly if they are plugged in properly. But overall happy about the item and the price.

Art DTI

A small handy general purpose DI. It will not replace my Radial products, but at this price, I don't expect it to.

Handy for throwing into your gig bag, in case you get the dreaded ground loop hum. Also works on laptops.

Great product at a brilliant price.

Solid

This very solid bit of kit is as rugged as they come.

I bought this because I was having ground loop hums from my laptop while DJing, however I have to say the one downside of this unit is that it doesnt really come with accurate instructions for an idiot like me to use. I understand you can plug in one type of connector one side and take out another type on the other but as for reducing ground loop hums I never quite knew what to do. However, as I had stopped having the problem I never needed to.

So if you are looking for a very high quality transformer from one cable to another, this is the one to go for.

Great solution for the problems it is made to solve

We got an old mixer for free. A large beast, but it was free. It turned out that if you hook a microphone directly to it, you can feel a small, electric jolt on your lips. Not good, it can even be dangerous. Enter the ART DTI. With this baby the jolts went away, and it can even to a small extent solve hum problems caused by ground loops too. I simply love this little thing, and having two separate channels means you can have two microphones instead of one connected or use it for stereo. It is also an adapter, by the way. It now is in permanent use in our rehearsal room. Maybe I'll get one more...

Workhorse

Nothing fancy. Does what it says on the box. Durable. Value for money