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Old 10-07-2014, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Bugs762 View Post
Curious to know if anyone knows (not opinion) why CJ has never used balanced inputs and outputs. No intention to start a flame war! Peace be upon us.
This was in a previous review of a CJ preamp from Bill Conrad:

"Going balanced is a solution looking for a problem. The problem doesn’t exist in home audio, but it’s very real for medical equipment or in the recording studio. Balanced just complicates the design, and we adamantly don’t believe in complications.” If a preamp is fully balanced from input to output, it necessarily has more parts: twice the parts in the signal path. “There is no such thing as a part that has no sound.”

Part of their design philosophy.

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