Dakkon is bang on for home use. In a stage environment however, with cables running all over the place then balanced is the only way to go. The three connectors inside the balanced cable are carrying the ground, the signal in-phase, and the signal out-of-phase. Any noise picked up along the way has the same phase on both cables so it is cancelled when the out-of-phase signal wire is put back in phase at the receiving end.

Ian Colquhoun
President & Chief Engineer