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Dartzeel CTH-8550. RCA vs Xlr

Any CTH-8550 owners out there that have compared rca input connections vs the xlr input? My sacd player is indifferent so I am really only asking about the Dart. Many thanks for any user comments.
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dallasjustice
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Ok. Jonathan got me thinking. It turns out I DO have a pair of MIT Oracle MA rev2 laying around and they are SE'd. I will shoot it out this weekend and report back.

@stringreen
You are simply repeating audiophile mythology (balanced always better than SE'd) without any specific facts. It all depends on the design of the gear. For example, I believe Daniel Weiss' gear also favors SE'd output over Balanced.
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dallasjustice
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Single-ended is a little more alive and involving.
lbelchev
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from Dartzeel: "To cut a long story short, we can say the whole acoustical chain is single-ended. The only moment when the acoustical signal could be balanced is when it travels into the electric wires. In the air, sound is unbalanced, asimmetric, single-ended, as you prefere. Why then, this obssesion to balance a naturally unbalanced signal? Is it not against nature?"
defride
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Depends on what you run with it. A guy I know was running his cdp into an 8550 single ended. We borrowed the cdp for a shootout where in single ended it was very average. We reconnected later balanced simply because thats what we had been using on the previous cdp and the improvement was astounding. The owner has since had Kondo I/C's reterminated balanced.
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