In Reply to: What are balanced outputs posted by Troutbum on November 12, 2006 at 11:18:41:
I would not base my decision on purchasing a CDP solely on whether or not it has balanced outputs. Unless your audio system is in a very noisy electrical environment (eg. RFI/EMI) there is no need for a balanced system. Some of these guys will try to tell you how much "better" balanced sounds over single-ended but there is little if any difference. I have both. I remember the magazine reviewers use to say that they could hear no difference (before balance equipment became more prevalent) then as balanced systems got more popular all of a sudden they could hear big differences(?). If you do go with a balanced CDP then you really need for your whole system to be balanced to take advantage of any noise reduction it offers.
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