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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Thank you both for your helpful responses. I really appreciate your time and effort. Al, your post allowed to me find answers without chasing my tail so much, and it may prevent me from damaging my preamp.

This topic is of little to no interest on audiogon, but I'll report what I found anyways. Yes, biamping using those outputs is done. They are not independently buffered. Thankfully the L2, which is very close to the same as L1, has been measured by Stereophile.  The unbalanced output impedance ranges from 124ohms to 3.35kOhms (at 20Hz); balanced 248 to 7.7k. Lamm does state that its "high current drive capability" with drive any "real world" load. The downside is that the preamp's phase switch only affects the unbalanced output. The other thing I thought interesting is that one can biamp Lamm ML2.# amps by using the one of balanced/unbalanced inputs as an output to another amp. 

Thank you, again.
Again, thank you very much, Al.  The YG powered sub has a 10kohm input impedance, so going to avoid it.