John Siau writes:
If you look at the back of any Benchmark product, you will find balanced XLR analog-audio connectors. As a convenience, we also provide unbalanced RCA connectors on many of our products. In all cases, the balanced interfaces will provide better performance.
We build our unbalanced interfaces to the same high standards as our balanced interfaces, but the laws of physics dictate that the balanced interfaces will provide better noise performance.
This paper explains the advantages of balanced interfaces as compared to unbalanced.
https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/balanced-vs-unbalanced-analog-interfaces
