Thank you very much XenonMan. Do balanced connections always provide a lower noise floor? If so, maybe that's the way to go regardless. My connections will only be about 3 1/2 feet, so unless the noise floor is lowered regardless of the situation, it sounds as though RCA's may provide just as good a connection.
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