I’ve never really been sold by the whole balanced/unbalanced thing. I got a Delta 1010 soundcard with 10 unbalanced in/outs, with 2 hardware reverbs, 3 hardware synths, all running into an unbalanced patchbay. Alledgedly, unbalanced should introduce a lot of noise, especially with all the unbalanced cable running into my unbalanced patchbay, and then into mymonitors, again using unbalanced cables. Recording even the true analog synth I have, the noise hovers at approximatley -80 to -90db, which is more than quite enough 
Each to their own I suppose, but unless I start to hear the noise, I’m not gonna shell out any £££ for balanced gear 
Edit: the above is assuming u record at a decent volume. Otherwise u will get noise, and it sounds gash
