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In Reply to: Questions about balanced and unbalanced interconnects posted by George S. Roland on January 18, 2015 at 16:23:17:
George, If you plan to keep your preamp don't worry about balanced line connections. They will not help you. However, some amplifiers (like the latest ARC equipment) simply will not run properly with a single-ended source (our equipment does not care FWIW). So in such cases its a good idea to check with the manufacturer and make sure you don't have a compatibility problem.
OTOH, if you do decide to move to balanced operation (meaning you would change out the preamp), the use of balanced cables can have quite a lot of benefit if the preamp and amp support the balanced standard. The length of the cable does not matter; the reason for the benefit is that the balanced standard eliminates interconnect cable artifact. If you have ever heard a 1 meter RCA cable sound different from another one then you know what I am talking about. Its literally as if the cable does not exist in the system- its just pure signal, and the cost of the cable should be minimal.
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