Quote Originally Posted by Lawrence001 View Post
The thing that confuses me is when you look at all the different factors that make a cable sound the way it does (I'm excluding plugs here, just the materials and configuration of the cable itself), dialectric, conductivity, solid strand, multi core, litz, silver plated, pure silver, ofc, purity etc, what it is about a balanced configuration that means these make no difference when they make so much difference in a single ended cable?

I can't believe all these things are done to get round the limitations of a single ended design. Far easier surely just to design all kit in a balanced topology and buy the most basic cables?

Another possibility is that some who say that XLR cables make no difference may also be cable sceptics in general, in which case the balanced argument is moot. I'm just trying to understand what's at the root of this concept.

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Using a balanced cable is by all means probably the best way to connect you system in terms of the protection the configuration offers to the signal, no argument there BUT the truth of the matter is, the design is aimed at 'pro audio' and isn't as good as Hi-End connections from a conductivity perspective .

It's the same as using Speakons. The conductivity of the Plugs and sockets, as the industry, just isn't as good as we have in the Audiophile world.

There is no reason that balanced cables can defy the physics of different metals.

The fact that the shit materials Int the connection interface is where this myth has come from. Honest;ly, if you change from the Neutrik rubbish (IMO) to something far better, you will hear that it makes a huge difference.