Changing Turntable to Balanced Output


So I’ve read that a balanced output (XLR) is sonically superior to unbalanced RCA cables.Is it possible to just add adapters to do this? Is it better to rewire the Tonearm? I own an Acoustic Signature Triple X which has a hard wired tonearm cable so this not an easy solution. Just wondering if anyone has done this and if it’s worth it?

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I have the Modwright PH9.0x which supports balanced outputs but not inputs from the TT, Doesn’t that defeat the whole point of it?

Thanks everyone. I do have balanced out of my phonostage as well as balanced inputs on my Octave V70 Class A amp. I might change out the RCA’s for XLR’s as lean suggested. Not thinking it’s worth it after reading this from the Modwright site:

 

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on the second page it speaks to the balanced outs coming from the phonostage. I’m not really sure this true balanced outs because the transformers feed both sidle ended and XLRs. I am relatively new to this.