If you can run balanced- do so. Balanced cables are more effective than their single-ended counterparts and the system will sound better for that reason alone- assuming that the amp is indeed balanced internally.
The original balanced standard was developed decades ago specifically to get around interconnect problems. If you think about it, all the best recordings of the 50s and 60s were done with balanced cables. If there was a problem with 150' long microphone interconnects (like the ones Mercury used to record at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis), you'd think you'd here it with today's equipment. But you don't and in fact many of those recordings are regarded as reference quality today.
I would think an audiophile would *jump* at the chance to eliminate the vulgarities that an interconnect cable can introduce! That's what balanced lines are *for*!!
The original balanced standard was developed decades ago specifically to get around interconnect problems. If you think about it, all the best recordings of the 50s and 60s were done with balanced cables. If there was a problem with 150' long microphone interconnects (like the ones Mercury used to record at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis), you'd think you'd here it with today's equipment. But you don't and in fact many of those recordings are regarded as reference quality today.
I would think an audiophile would *jump* at the chance to eliminate the vulgarities that an interconnect cable can introduce! That's what balanced lines are *for*!!