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Concurrent use of balanced and unbalanced outputs: Lamm L1

Is there a foreseeable issue with using a balanced and unbalanced output for a biamping? My specific situation is using a Lamm L1 preamp for "main" speakers along with two powered subwoofers which have line-level (both balanced and unbalanced) inputs only. My current hope is to use an RCA-to-RCA cable and an XLR-to-RCA cabling (or possibly a Purist Audio Design XLR/RCA adapter) from preamp to amps to avoid a gain mismatch. I have emailed Lamm early this week without response yet and will try again soon with another address. Thank you.   

ohlala

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atmasphere
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If using a Lamm preamp, there appears to be no advantage to using the XLR outputs as the preamp is only single-ended.

If you want to use balanced connections from the preamp I would seek a different preamp.
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