Best balanced signal cable

Talk to Frank at Signal Cable. Good cables at a reasonable price.

Ralph Karsten, who designs/builds/owns Atmasphere personally uses Mogami balanced cables in his professional and audiophile systems. Do a search here in the archives for "Mogami", I'm sure you will find his reasoning behind using them.

Mogami is very, very, affordable. No hi-end, exotic, nano-tech, liquid-ferrous cooling, spiel. Just professional cables for the recording industry.

I use ordinary microphone type XLR cables from a company called Yorkville as well as Mogami (both available at a local music/guitar center). Mogami are roughly twice as expensive but slightly better built and probably more durable. Can I hear a difference between one and the other - not that I have noticed...

They are not given away, but I was very surprised by the Morrow Audio ICs. They have a very high performance to cost ratio compared to other more expensive ICs I have tried. The only Morrows I have tried are the PH-1 phono and MA-2 IC. I kept both and currently think them the best sounding ICs I have ever had in this system.

08-18-08: Glenn_garza
They are not given away, but I was very surprised by the Morrow Audio ICs.

Morrow doesn't seem to make balanced IC's. At least, they don't have them on their website.