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In Reply to: Balanced Versus Unbalanced posted by svisner on April 22, 2017 at 05:14:25:
The advantages of balanced is that it tends to reject external noise pretty well - if you have long runs of cable this is probably your best bet.If you don't, benefits could be elusive since ti depends on the following:
1. Do the components you are connecting use balanced or unbalanced circuity? (Ayre and BAT, for instance, do this. But not a lot of folks do it)
2. Is the primary source of noise RFI or common mode? If so, then balanced might be for you!
3. THe way your system is groundedThe main benefits I have noticed when balanced works is that there is a perceptible drop in the noise floor, small gains in detail & clarity and the perceived bass authority tends to rise some. But my electronics are Ayre for the Preamp and Amp.
Some gear offering balanced inputs or outputs use a transformer to do it, you may find that unbalanced/RCA sounds better in this case (High End Sony SACD players were this way as an example)
As with all things audio, everything like this is really setup specific, there is no short cut to just trying it and seeing!
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