To balance or not to balance . . .

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To be be blunt, I don’t think you’ll hear any real benefit at all unless you are running lots of very long cables (as may be found in a studio).

Thanks Mark, the thought had occurred to me but I'm a sucker for a tweak (even when things are sounding very nice).

Plus I don't think my listening room is particularly susceptible to enough RFI interference etc to justify the change. I think I just like the idea of nice chunky plugs and using the balanced inputs on my pre, but if the performance jump is low to nil I know there's better areas to spend (waste!) money on!

Now, my schuko plugs should turn up any minute now along with my new half filtered half unfiltered power strip . . . .