Changing Turntable to Balanced Output

No re-wiring of the tonearm is required. But you’d have to re-terminate the phono cables with XLRs, learn how to do that, and then buy a true balanced phono stage, to realize any benefits.

I have the Modwright PH9.0x which supports balanced outputs but not inputs from the TT, Doesn’t that defeat the whole point of it?

Doesn’t that defeat the whole point of it?

Yes.

Personally, I have thought once or twice to have a balanced phono stage, next to have that phono stage connect to balanced headphone amp, and finally to be heard through headphones wired for balanced operation. Nothing else included in this system. Can't say that it would all pan out, but curiosity still exists.

  OTOH, using a TT to feed a balanced phono stage in and of itself seems troublesome, only to feed from there an unbalanced system.

I could be wrong, but according to highfidelity.pl review of BAT VK-P6SE:

The VK-P6SE is a balanced design, with a passive "floating" RIAA correction circuit, ie after the RCA input the "positive" signal is amplified in one branch of the gain, and the "negative", which normally is shorted to the ground, here is amplified in the other branch. The ground connection is made with a separate cable run from a tonearm.

Does it means even though the cartridge connected to the VK-6SE inputs via rca cable, it still worked as a balanced connection?

BAT VK-P6SE review