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Can I use XLR to connect pre-amp to amp and RCA to connect pre-amp to sub?

I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm contemplating getting a preamp that has XLR outs so that I can connect my preamp to my amp using XLR (balanced connection). Would it be possible to use RCA (unbalanced) out to connect my sub, a Vandersteen V2W, while at the same time connecting my pre-amp to amp using XLR?

I've searched and can't get a definitive answer as to whether this would be ok, or do something weird. From what I gather it would be really bad to use both RCA and XLR outs for the same connection. 
thanks for your help
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djones51
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Does the preamp have sub out? Use whatever is supposed to connected there.
djones51
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Looking at the manual it looks like you could do what you want run balanced XLR to all the amps but the sub amp and run unbalanced RCA to the sub just don't run both XLR and RCA to the same amp. 
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