Cons of using main XLR/Balanced outs for subwoofer?


I'm putting my system together for the first time in a new space with a new to me preamp and new speakers.

Signal Chain:
TT/Streamer
McIntosh C220
McIntosh MC7270
Ohm Walsh 4.4012

The 7270 does not offer balanced inputs.
The Ohms have active subs which offer balanced input.
The C220 has only one Balanced output for the Main Output. 

Is there any harm in using the main XLR output to send signal to the subwoofers, and using the 1, or 2 RCA output to send signal to the main drivers?

Thoughts?

Thanks
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Showing 2 responses by mitch2

How about the case where the balanced out provides the signal for the main amplifiers and the single-ended out provides the signal to a pair of subwoofers?  Both of these signals come out of a buffered, unity gain preamp.
I run my two subs out of the single-ended (rca) outputs from my buffer, and feed my main amps from the balanced outputs. To the subs, I run longer rca cables into Jensen PI-RX transformers and then very short XLR cables from the transformers to the subs. Looking at the Jensen graphs and spec sheets, it appears the SUB-RX transformers would have been a slightly more optimum solution to use with the subs....but not by much, and not by enough to worry about. I actually purchased the PI-RX transformers for a different situation involving a single-ended tubed preamp into SS mono amplifiers that had only balanced (XLR) inputs. You do need to be careful with impedances in those full-range situations since having too high an output impedance into the transformers can roll off the high frequencies.