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Balanced vs RCA preamps

How important is it that your Pre-amp has both balanced and RCA capabilities? I’m shopping for another pre, most likely tube, and it seems to make sense with any future component that it offers both XLR and RCA. And to further complicate the search finding both these features plus remote limits the offerings for both tube and SS particularly tube.

 

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My Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL tube preamp has one balanced input. The rest are unbalanced.  I asked LTA if there was any benefit to using the balanced input. They said it would depend on the strengths of the connected device. My dac has both balanced and unbalanced outputs. 

I'm using unbalanced because my best cables are unbalanced. 

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