How to go from RCA to XLR?

Rww -- I get your drift; touche! :)

But the op should note in the reference that he can get a great deal of noise rejection just with the cabling arrangement that Whitlock describes (his diagram labelled "correct" on page 29), without the expense and possible sonic signature of a transformer.

And as I indicated earlier, even if he just uses the adapter as originally envisioned (Whitlock's diagram labelled "wrong" on page 29), he would have noise performance comparable to a fully single-ended arrangement, which may prove to be satisfactory anyway.

Regards,
-- Al

It should be fairly easy to try anyway if he's still here.

I still think that there will be a loss of power if the Palladium amps are using a
bridged balanced scheme which I suspect. From what I've read the Palladiums
are based on either the 4004 or 8008 stereo amps depending on vintage.

Rwwear, if you have only a single-ended source, get a transformer from Jensen to convert from SE to balanced. That will assure that there will be no issues.

I agree Atmo. I value your opinion and would like to ask what you think of a plan I have. I have a Citaion II that has been almost completely updated. It sounds great but would benefit from more power. I would like to find another and convert them to balanced mono by using the two separate channels of each amp for the positive and negative. Do you see any problems with this plan? Simply converting to mono is easy but I feel balanced would be better.