[atoav]

Yeah it is a cheap mobile usb interface. Beauty is not the name of the game there — which is why I used it to argue against balanced being a feature of expensive equipment.

Balanced outputs have nothing to do with the aesthetics of the object. And I choose option 4 — build it yourself — then it can be done cheap and look however decent, massive, invisible, ridiculous or whatever the aesthetical ven diagram between your second half and you looks like. And it can have balanced I/O if needed ; )