For a balanced connection there are two legs sent not just one. The 2 legs are 180 deg out of phase wrt each other. They are then subtracted from each other, so:

+S - -S = +2S

So the signal strength is doubled, which gives you the 6 dB gain. Also, when you do that subtraction, voila, noise present on both legs is subtracted out.
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