balanced signals require both halves of the signal propagation to be exact and then electromagnetically and in voltage fields..interact and reflect off/in one another in perfect symmetry of their perfect signals.
Nice theory.
Reality says it has it’s limits.
It gets niggling little bits of it wrong. It is not possible to make it perfect enough for the theory to emerge as a reality. *
Problem being that it’s distortion components are the parts that the human ear uses for fine levels of discernment...
....which is the whole high end audio pursuit itself.
Both balanced and single ended RCA.... both being imperfect...as well as the rest of the system and the humans being imperfect (different hearing, different mind, etc)..combined with how the human ego/limits function in the meat box we call a human...those things all combine into, or emerge as - arguments among the meat boxes.
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* The Teo audio liquid metal has the ability to deal with physical perturbations and inconsistencies in construction..whereas frozen lattices of solid wire, due to how signal propagates in it..cannot. In this.. the problem with wire in balanced design..is pretty well wholly eliminated with the Teo Audio liquid metal conductor pathways. This point is utterly unique in electrical conductor design.
