What did you end up with @dentdog ? I run single ended from my Allnic's but am thinking of moving up the chain in cable quality and costs and moving to XLR. Curious what you need up with after all.
Allnic H 7000 XLR out.
Having had a fully balanced system previously and seeing it's virtues, granted some may disagree here, am looking into going balanced again. Phono pre is the above mentioned Allnic H 7000 now running single ended. Is there anyone here with the technical knowledge as to the mechanism the phono pre uses internally to send the signal out using XLR cables. A bit hesitant to go forward mixing a basically single ended unit in the chain with true balanced going the rest of the way.