Are Expensive Balanced Interconnects Necessary?

So, I gather that the answer to the original question is definitely maybe, or certainly could be.

@vonhelmholtz indeed and I personally wished that wasn't the case because it would make it so much easier!

So, I gather that the answer to the original question is definitely maybe, or certainly could be.

@vonhelmholtz I think that it would be difficult to tell the difference between a $5 and $5000 XLR cable with any certainty in an ABX test.
But if it has been done, then we should be able to find it.

There are countless personal testimonials and poetic prose in magazines, that proclaim the money is well spent… just nothing that most would consider evidence being extant.

Clearly, single ended interconnects yield sound benefits as you move up a manufacturers product line, but do balanced cables yield the same improvement?

And not all the way up… sometimes different systems like different RCA cables.

The fact that recording studios are using regular cables, sort of suggests that:

1. It doesn’t matter 
2. or what ever was lost happened already