El, The relevance of the provided excerpt was more in regards to an overall factual examination of balanced vs. unbalanced interconnection configurations.
I WILL NOT evaluate, recommend, or not recommend, (for other users) the implementation of balanced configuration for home audio use. I WILL try to help in providing said users what I consider to be useful, practical, unbiased (or as unbiased as possible), and hopefully factual information resources. Hopefully, this will allow the others to make more informed evaluations and ultimate decisions in a more intellegent and informed fashion.
Personally? I utilize full balanced configuration. From MY OWN personal evaluation, I feel there are three specific characteristics of balanced configuration that I personally feel are advantageous:
Lack/reduction of any significant impedance level mismatches between components, especially important (I feel), between transport/DA.
Isolating parasitic ground current and accumulated noise from the signal path, elevated RF/EM noise immunity.
I like XLR connectors as they provide a higher degree of protection from conductor exposure to eventually sonically degrading environmental elements.
There may or may not be other advantages/disadvantages re: balanced. But the aforementioned, are the reasons I find balanced superior. Other individuals may not.
I hope that others find this information relevant. Ed.
I WILL NOT evaluate, recommend, or not recommend, (for other users) the implementation of balanced configuration for home audio use. I WILL try to help in providing said users what I consider to be useful, practical, unbiased (or as unbiased as possible), and hopefully factual information resources. Hopefully, this will allow the others to make more informed evaluations and ultimate decisions in a more intellegent and informed fashion.
Personally? I utilize full balanced configuration. From MY OWN personal evaluation, I feel there are three specific characteristics of balanced configuration that I personally feel are advantageous:
Lack/reduction of any significant impedance level mismatches between components, especially important (I feel), between transport/DA.
Isolating parasitic ground current and accumulated noise from the signal path, elevated RF/EM noise immunity.
I like XLR connectors as they provide a higher degree of protection from conductor exposure to eventually sonically degrading environmental elements.
There may or may not be other advantages/disadvantages re: balanced. But the aforementioned, are the reasons I find balanced superior. Other individuals may not.
I hope that others find this information relevant. Ed.