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Originally Posted by audioguy3107

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.

Buck.......Interesting comment but colloquialism doesn't provide much of a genuine explanation. It can just as easily be said, " No sound system will make music without parts." It takes parts to develop a design philosophy and build a working amplifier. How many parts and how they are effectively implemented to reach the design goal are up to the design engineers and manufacturers. In addition, the working tolerances of individual parts will greatly impact sound quality, as will dozens of other critical aspects of developing a premium audio product. If one design concept was truly so superior to all others, there would be little to no room for others to exist.