That’s a good point. Wasn't planning to convert to balanced. Appreciate all your feedback, think I'll join the Audio-GD club. Thanks! Agreed, just wanted to make sure the price to performance ratio between the 2 options wasn't too different. The nice part is I've already tried out the nfb...

Haha, I had a feeling you'd say that based off the sig. any reason it’s not worth going for the THX offer?

$200, and received late 2017. Has TXCO upgrade too.

I'm looking at used, my friend is willing to sell me his 11.28. And sorry, should have mentioned. Using AKG k712.

I saw a couple of deals on Audio-GD NFB 11.28 and Massdrop THX AAA 789 which I liked. The DAC that I currently have on my motherboard is a ESS® Sabre Hi-Fi ES9023P. Wondering if that's a good DAC to pair with the 789. If not, there is the Audio-GD offering. I've of course heard good things...

Currently using these headphones with my PC and am enjoying the sound, but have seen a lot of posts mentioning these headphones are relatively harder to drive and will require a AMP/DAC combo. The motherboard I have is an ASUS Maximus IX Code. It comes with a ESS® Sabre Hi-Fi ES9023P DAC...