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Patrick Turner wrote:
Balanced does not always give better hi-fi.

But will have been used at least somewhere on the material you listen to
- all reasonable quality microphones are balanced as are the inputs and
outputs on the rest of the chain. Ignoring digital throughout - as most
do.

And balanced was first used in telephones, to reduce noise over long
distances.
Twisted pairs and common mode rejection etc.

It makes little difference to noise over 2 metres if you know how to rig
a normal
unbalanced phono input.

Hopefully.

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