Bravo! Wonderfully stated!!
Pretty much every interconnect is balanced in my system. I try to limit my heavily shielded low capacitance RCA cables to 1 foot when possible; never exceeding 3 feet.
Not meaning to derail this thread, I’d be interested in your opinion of Dante sometime, and could it ever become part of the high end audiophile playing field someday (of course some high end manufacturers haven’t even stepped up to include balanced analog connections on their gear)? It looks like Dante is being used very successfully in the pro field.