Why doesn't Musical Fidelity offer balanced output

To keep manufacturing costs down?

One other note here: XLR outputs do not necessarily imply the product is truly balanced.

It's partly a cultural thing I think. Not much British gear is balanced. It may be to do with us Brits using short interconnects and long speaker cables. I think you colonials tend to use much longer interconnects, where true balanced is of more value. Speaking to UK manufactures, as I have at shows, they seem pretty dismissive of the benefits of balanced connections. It does also give real manufacturing cost savings of course. Most of my interconnects are 1mt. I have never been in a position to use balanced connections.

To answer some of you, i would like balanced because all of my cabling is xlr. also, some of gear does sound better using the xlr connections vs the rca. i dont know why.