XLR-RCA: Adapters or Custom Cable?

Thanks for the responses(for the most part). The Lavry is a Black DA10 so it only has balanced outputs. Others have reported that the Cardas adapters work well so I may end up going that route. From a technical standpoint, having a single piece of cable would seem to have an advantage but if that advantage isn't really audible then it's of no concequence. That was really what I was trying to find out. At any rate, I'll just have to play around with it and see what works best.

Thanks again for all of the input everyone. I had to think long and hard before buying the Lavry unit which only has balanced outs knowing full well that there's no way that I'm replacing my current integrated which is single ended only. In the end, I really wanted to hear the Lavry so I decided to live with the fact that I would have to go balanced to unbalanced. There were a number of people reporting having used the Cardas adapters with good success but my thought was that using an adapter might degrade the sound. It probably is only a matter of a few percent or splittng hairs, not the end of the world. The fact that you can configure the Lavry unit for pin 2 or pin 3 hot going unbalanced ensures that the unit will not be blowing up unless you configure it incorrectly.

All that being said, I am currently using a female XLR to RCA made from Kimber PBJ which is doing an OK job but as I am using Zen Silver ref II in the rest of my system, it's not quite the same. The plan now is to get a set of Neotech cables custom made in an xlr to rca configuration. The NEI-1002 that I am trying to get uses OCC 7n silver which is at least similar to what is in the Zen cables that I am already using and am quite happy with overall. At any rate, the upcharge for getting balanced ends on the cable was about 1/3rd of what the Cardas adapters are and significantly less than the BAT's so I figured that it was worthwhile to have a single, constant connection. Thanks again...