I mean that hosa balanced cable was even less expensive than some of em suggested. Hosa are not the best but unless recent QC has deteriorated I haven't had many hosa cables go bad on me for studio usage.
I mean if the gear is wired for balanced and the balanced cable don't cost any extra then what's the problem just using balanced first try? Avoids having to switch to balanced later on when you had to debug and fix a problem you wouldn't have had to debug and fix if you had used balanced to begin with?
It would be different for me or Bert or lfm if we are deciding whether to buy a new balanced cable vs drag out one of 50 old unbalanced quarter inch cables from the old cable drawer.
Skinflintiness demands using the old cable so long as the old cable works OK.
But if you don't have an old cable drawer and you have to buy something new anyway-- If the right cable doesn't cost any more than the "almost right" cable, then why waste money buying the "almost right" cable? The "almost right" cable will probably work fine but if it doesn't then you have to put that cable in your new "old cable drawer" and go out and spend more money to get the right cable.
I mean, if unbalanced is so great then why don't we just rewire all our mics unbalanced while we are at it?
