I would beg to differ, the live music scene has a strong interest in standardization. Most of my sound reinforcement friends will wax poetic on the virtues of p

I would beg to differ, the live music scene has a strong interest in standardization. Most of my sound reinforcement friends will wax poetic on the virtues of proper 1/4" coaxial cabling and a lot of these folks would probably shit bricks at the thought of having to replace their hardware. Funny you mention Pioneer, I always found their use of RJ45 for comms to be kinda funny/ingenious. (Note that using RJ45 for other purposes seems to be a pretty common thing in the embedded world, from my own observations.) If you're talking CDJs they're usually hooked straight into a DJ-style mixer before the signal touches anything else; I thought balanced/unbalanced was a consideration more for microphones and guitar amps?