Efficiency of obtaining differential signalling from a single-ended manufactured transducers
Since differential signalling is more immune to noise


Any signalling is susceptible to noise - it's how your receive amplifier handles those received signals that determines how much immunity can be acquired. 

However, you can have a perfect differential amplifier attached to a single ended source (via a properly balanced cable) that has problems. If the output impedance of the hot wire is several tens of ohms compared to the impedance of the 0 volt transmit reference you have what is known as "earth impedance imbalance". Note that I said imbalance.

If noise comes along and "hits" the cable, it will develop a larger signal on the hot output than that developed on the 0 volt reference signal. Here's what I mean for a good scenario: -



The signal source is "perfect" in that it presents the same low impedance for hot wire as 0 volt reference. Clearly, if any noise comes along then it hits both wires in the cable and, because both wires have equal impedance balance to ground, the noise received by the diff amp is equal and can be quite easily cancelled.

If the signal source has an output impedance that isn't zero then there could be a problem that can be overcome by this: -



Now, the impedances are largely the same - the added resistors are chosen to be identical and "swamp" the difference in impedance between hot wire and 0 volt reference. Earth impedance balance will be good and noise will be the same on both received wires (providing your input amplifier has good input earth impedance balance as well).

Adding an inverting stage can make things worse - keep the earth impedance balance at the sending end good and you minimize problems without adding an amplifier. Of course, in extreme circumstances you have to transmit a bigger signal and this can be done (carefully) with a balanced buffer. To keep "balance" (the same for both signals) use an inverting amplifier and a non-inverting amplifier - this largely ensures that the impedance at high frequencies will be equal.

You cannot achieve this using the "original" signal and a buffer amplifier because you have no way of controlling the impedances relative to each other. If it works it's just luck and that's not good engineering.