Alexandru, there's a great debate way back in the early days of the 990 forum about this very subject in which one very knowledgeable contributor (soundhound) presented much the same argument that you do: a more complex signal path is inevitable with balanced connections, so he didn't recommend using balanced connections unless you need them for the purpose that they are intended to address (noise/interference from outside sources over long cabling runs).
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