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RE: If you had really done it balanced there would be no hum.

Posted by Ugly on May 30, 2017 at 21:53:19:
"Unless in a Very RF noisy industrial studio setup there is Small (agruably Zero) advantage to Balanced."
If it kills the hum, and other emi, what's not to love?

"Also tricky to get balanced carts :-)"
Really? Just because the electrical midpoint is tricky to access does not mean it doesn't exist.
For example what is wrong with trying to exactly split the difference with a couple of highly precision matched resistors?