Balanced or unbalanced isn't the question here. BALUS stands for Balanced-Unbalanced. Due to the stereo TRS jacks used in the PLI05, it can cope with both balanced and unbalanced signals. The PLI05 is so to say the PLI02's little sister. Both boxes can be used to convert balanced to unbalanced and both use so called line isolating transformers to realize a galvanic separation.
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