balanced cables


What exactly do balanced cables do, and is there any difference in sound quality? What is it that gets "balanced"? I'm in the process of buying a new(used) Mac amp and preamp, and the literature says they accept balanced cables. Is this to connect the two pieces? I'd really appreciate having some light shed on this question. Thanks.
brusuz

Showing 1 response by drrdiamond

Also because the negative phase is subtracted from the positive phase, not only is all unwanted signals picked up on the interconnect rejected, but the end result will have a 6db increase in gain over unbalanced.

In my case, with Krell, it makes a big difference. Krell is designed for balanced and I live near the highest TV/Radio tower west of the Mississippi. Television is a bitch, but my stereo is dead silient.

Richard