OneSec
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A couple local audiophile friends upgraded from initial 2000 dollar system and up all the way to a 30,000 dollar system and in the process they may have spent more than 40,000 - 70,000 dollars switching from system to system (hi-fi system, not headphone system). With pre-amp / headphone amp, I would set maximum budget, let the system serve me at least a good 10 years. Until I strike lottery, or get really rich in between...
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X2 Would be fun to have 2 headphones running concurrent too, as long as it doesn't fry the lower impendence / higher sensitivity phone
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Thanks UE. Great advice as before. I would say answers are ''no'' to most of them, minus line noise, plus considering adding HE6 into my current collection, and extending the use of pre-amp for my future speaker setup. Yeah my friends whose own those crazy hi-fi systems are brain washing me everyday with their furutech interconnect and power cables, so far I am trying very hard resisting those things, but wouldn't mind going balanced. You'll get the picture
My current budget would allow me to consider balanced, Beta22 is over though. My friend just rejected my request to build Beta22 so I'm currently out of luck in Malaysia. In fact he just sold all his DIY parts and turned to commercial systems. Thinking over tubes now...
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There’s probably not a lot of sonic benefit I agree,
I do however feel that a fully differential approach from DAC chip to driver is an elegant approach, for me balanced is all about “potential”.
Piece of mind that an optimum has been implemented.
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well, with that B22 he can easily switch between unbalanced/balanced on the fly for comparisons. maybe the BM DAC1 sounds better balanced, but there was a definite improvement. i didn't want to hear a difference for some of the reasons you cited.
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If you have to have balanced, get a Beta22, Dynamid or Dynamight.
If you want to run the HD-800 nicely, consider something like the Zana Deux. The HD-800 is better with tubes.
As for balanced, it's mostly marketing silliness.
Do you need to drive a line over several hundred feet? Likely not. Do you have a significant problem with channel separation or line noise? Probably not, and a good single-ended amp won't have those problems. Do you need a lot of power? Bridging amps delivers more power, but it costs less to use a more powerful single-ended amp.
Those are the benefits to running balanced. Do you really need it?
Then again, "balanced" is a status symbol. Do you want to drop an extra four figures for that?
Thanks UE. Great advice as before. I would say answers are ''no'' to most of them, minus line noise, plus considering adding HE6 into my current collection, and extending the use of pre-amp for my future speaker setup. Yeah my friends whose own those crazy hi-fi systems are brain washing me everyday with their furutech interconnect and power cables, so far I am trying very hard resisting those things, but wouldn't mind going balanced. You'll get the picture
My current budget would allow me to consider balanced, Beta22 is over though. My friend just rejected my request to build Beta22 so I'm currently out of luck in Malaysia. In fact he just sold all his DIY parts and turned to commercial systems. Thinking over tubes now...