What's the benefit of balanced tonearm cables?


My phone stage (bat vkp10) has xlr and rca inputs. bat vk50se preamp. I use all balanced cables for everything except the tonearm cable.

What's the benefit between your cartrige to phone stage?

Thanks!
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Showing 1 response by don_c55

If your phono stage has XLR inputs, use XLR cables from cartridge to Phono stage.

Will you get dead silence?  Maybe!  Will the choice of XLR cable affect the sound?  Maybe?

I use RCA phono cables to my Pass XOno (which has RCA inputs only).  The choice of phono cable does affect the sound quality, however I always have dead silence!  No noise, with ear to speaker, and volume all the way up.