RCA, Balanced, Krell CAST, Status Quo to Nirvana?


RCA connections, almost everyone uses them. Recording studios don't, it's all balanced for them; long lines, great noise isolation, the cables null out the "SOUND" of single ended cables. The music we listen to is recorded via balanced cables.
Both topographies convert from voltage to current and back again, over and over. Krell CAST maintains the signal in the current domain. I've never heard a CAST connected system. How does the theory sound to you.
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CAST makes perfect sense to me. If the preamp and amp were one integrated system, in an ideal situation they would be connected via a low impedance, high current connection that was balanced. That is the advantage of integrated amps. What Krell did is make it possible for this connection to be portable and swappable between diffeerent Krell components. I have a Krell system, and the CAST connection sounds better across all the typical dimensions we use to describe sonic attributes, compared to the voltage domain, balanced XLR connections.