New Cable Help-Balanced or Single Ended


Hello all,
I am finally getting my system to a point where it sounds right for me, and need to settle in on some interconnects. Based on the many positive comments I have read, I plan to try HGA Silver Lace. I will be comming out of a SF Assemblage DAC 3.0 to an Adcom GFP 750 then to a Classe DR25. The Classe drives Alon V MkII's with woofer upgrade. The Adcom has also had Stan Warren's black gate cap upgrade. Reviews say the Adcom sounds "slightly" better when run balanced. My question is, will this system sound better with balanced interconnects or single ended? I like hearing the details, but definitely not at the expense of harshness, grain, or a thin sound. Vocals are important, as is solid bass. I listen to rock (not metal), blues, and a bit of jazz. BTY, tri-wired to speakers with 2 individual runs of DH Labs Q10 (to woofer and mids) and a run of T14 to tweeter. Thanks for your help. Tim
mitch2

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Additional Information:
Thanks for your responses so far. I did some additional checking and the Adcom GFP750 is supposed to have true differential balanced circuitry. Nelson Pass stated "the performance is best when it is run balanced." The DAC 3.0 is fully balanced so DAC to preamp should be fine without any balanced to unbalanced circuit changes. I think the DR25 may be the weak link. I cannot find any literature whether it uses fully balanced circuitry or not. I have read posts both ways. It is an older amp, but still quite good, and was originally $4000. I would think they would have not cut corners on an item in that cost range, but even the owners manual is not clear on whether the circuitry is fully balanced. I am also worried about a thinness in the sound some have talked about when running balanced compared to singled ended. I have no noise issues and I am not running long interconnects (1 meter) so these are not issues and I could go either way.