To balance or not to balance . . .

[Opti-cal]

Balanced is a PITA

Now, I know people think I'm mad but I hate the connections. There is no helping me here but I loath the cheap shit brass pins and sockets.

I am a disciple of the merits of copper and its use in connections especially. Trouble is with balanced gear, its all gold plated brass unless you're willing to drop serious cheddar on plugs and sockets, which I am, if I had the money available.

I thought I'd found a really good plug recently only to discover its £100 to get a set of plugs here now, as the supplier id just found dropped them from their stock.

Theres no doubt its a better connection imo and that's all that we should worry about.......right?

Hmmm . . . I hadn't really considered the inferiority of the "cheaper" connections vs good RCA's.

As we know though Oliver, it ALL matters (to a greater or lesser degree).

Thanks for the reply's so far chaps, interesting stuff and more to think about.