I'm not arguing in favor in balanced cables over unbalanced cables in general, since a higher quality unbalanced cable will doubtless be capable of outperforming a much cheaper balanced cable, or even that balanced connections are always superior to unbalanced ones since that's something which will vary according to the device, (my AK380 for instance shows almost no change between the 3.5mm and 2.5mm jacks) but rather than in this specific instance the output from the balanced 2.5mm jack of the AK70 MKII is far superior to the 3.5mm unbalanced jack, and that even cheap earphones should be more than capable of demonstrating this when tested on both.On this forum there are always people arguing that aac files from iTunes sound as good as FLAC, DSF, MQA; that stock cheap cables are the same as kryptonite anodized cables; or that balanced vs unbalanced makes no difference etc...
He just meant that balanced cables will make a difference whatever the head/earphones you attached it to, and that you should hear the difference.
I was playfully suggesting that if your ears aren't capable of telling the difference between the AK70 MKII's two outputs you should probably trade in your audiophile gear for a set of Airpods because you aren't likely to notice the difference, such is the improvement that 2.5mm jack will give you over the 3.5mm output.
The output for balanced vs un-balanced is different (4vrms vs 2vrms). So it should theoretically be louder no matter the earphones. But that is not objective of going balanced. The sound feels more refined, cleaner, bass gets tighter more defined, but not necessarily more boomy. It just sounds more musical, more spacious.
I compile a list of feature requests that are posted here on Head-Fi and social media and submit them to our development team regularly. Cannot guarantee requests would get added, but we've added a number of new features that were first requested by users here and on our social media pages . I will add this to the request list
