How can you dismiss the benefits of common mode noise rejection?
How much noise can you pick up in a few feet of cable?
The benefit is that you can use a cheap cable to the same effect as a really expensive cable- effectively eliminating a cost in your system. That's not something you can say about SE cables!
So why do I see ultra expensive balanced cables as well as SE cables? I can make you an SE cable from magnet wire or a twisted pair of CAT5 cable that works as well as the expensive SE cable.
Herman, before balanced line occurred, you had to scream at the top of your lungs to make a call across the state
Once again, who cares what the phone company uses.
In our amps, which are balanced, there is one.
I have no access to the schematics of your amps, but I believe in order to do this you have many tubes in parallel which presents it's own problems. There is no free lunch.
Its not better because the pros use it, the pros use it because it works better.
Exactly, it works better in a very noisy studio enviroment with pro audio equipment when you are trying to record very low level signals. A situation that is never repeated at home.