+1 for Covenant's fine questions.
Originally Posted by Covenant
Hi Elias,
I'm curious, does the HPA-2 drive the balanced outputs of the DAC1 as well? I've been hearing for ages that the HD650 scales extremely well with balanced operation, and having a reference-grade USB DAC with true balanced outputs and a high quality inbuilt balanced amplifier all in one unit would be very attractive.
Also, is the HPA-2 a discrete circuit, or opamp based? Just asking because I'm not familiar with the HPA-2 at all.