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Balanced/Unbalanced question

Hi all,

I really should know the answer to this but I'm not sure.

I have a Parasound P7 pre amp running balanced connections to my amp. My main upstream unbalanced only components, turntable and phono pre are running unbalanced into the P7 .

Can't find any thing from Parasound but would the P7 convert the unbalanced signals to balanced or should I just run the whole system unbalanced?

I found this on an audio thread:

"Within home stereo equipment, which in general is all unbalanced, it makes sense to use unbalanced cable through out the system. Using balanced cables within this scenario does not make a large amount of sense, since the transitions between the two types of audio will outweigh the benefits."

Does it make sense?
mjm1124

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milpai
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Al mentioned:
; and often a 6 db difference in system gain, which may have audibly significant consequences in some systems.
+1
Applies to TVCs. This was required in my system. I experienced this when I removed the RCA between the TVC and power amp, and used XLRs instead.
I am not sure how this will work when I get a CDP with XLR and connect it to TVC. Currently all sources only use RCA to connect to TVC.
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