i am an audiogd fan....enjoy your new toy bro!!

Is this enough to really power the LCD-3's up?
They also say themselves that the balanced part gets much more amplification...

 5950MW /  50 ohm  in balanced mode....1650MW /  50 ohm in single mode.

Exactly Haha

Thanks for reading my review. If anyone has questions, leave them here and I'll reply.

Thanks,

Thomas

Could you elaborate more on the differences between SE and Balanced? I have my own ES2 coming the end of this week or early next week and I should have my balanced hd600 cable next week as well. I'd like to know what others think of it.

I noticed two major things, between SE and balanced.

1. This is probably obvious, but he amp outputs more power in balanced, so I keep the volume around 15, while in SE I keep it closer to 25 to 30.

2. In Balanced you hear more details (slightly more), I hear a tad more speed as well, and most of all, since your using less volume, you hear everything cleaner and clearer.

Trust me, if you get this amp, your going to love it, both sound great, but the balanced operation does in fact sound better. IMO its worth it!

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to getting mine. My current SE setup cost me about $800 and now the ES2 costs less than that and is probably going to sound better xD 

 Oh it will, unless your SE setup is a GS-X lol . Audio-gd is amazing, if I ever get the upgrade bug, my next amp would probably be one of the Audio-gd Reference products ($1800+). Honestly I don't even feel the want/need to upgrade though. It sounds great, and is a amazing value. 

Use it as a preamp and buy a high-end tube amp. Pair them with neutral headphone. It's awesome. Okey thanks, man. I will give this thing to my buying list.

@LoveKnight I may do that, my LCD-2 aren't neutral but I've been craving the HD800.  

 Just like Pokemon, gotta collect them all! That's how I feel about headphones

I will mention my NFB 10ES2 has a metal case :O and yea, sadly the Balanced Output sounds better than the SE :/ 
 
Still the SE beats my old Matrix M Stage, so it outperforms SE amps in the 200-$300 price range!