RCA / BALANCED OUTPUT

I don't understand why you would want to buy a balanced only CD player if every thing else in your system is RCA?
I am not aware of any player having balanced outputs that does not also have RCA (unbalanced outputs). There is no advantage to having a balanced putput and changing it to unbalanced with an adapter.

Just made comparison between RCA and balanced outputs on my new CD player. More dynamics coming from the Balanced output. Sound was much brighter and clearer; you can hear the difference right away! I just used very basic cables I got from a local music store up here in Barrie but I could tell the difference immediately.
Cheers!

I followed Almarg's advice in taking 18' balanced lines through unbalanced equalizers just before the amps using Jensen ISO MAX transformers that terminate at the amps with RCA to XLR cables. That termination turns out to be important.

In my setup using XLR to RCA adapters resulted in audible sizzle.

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