mousike
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Simply a good match
Hi James,
I thought I'd take the time to tell you I received my BHA-1 and am blown away. The build quality is truly excellent, switches and volume pot feel fantastic. Turns out the balanced question was semi irrelevant because this thing has made my HD800 scale up hugely, plugged in single ended. It's like I'm hearing my music for the first time all over again (which of course is sacred).
Please pass my compliments to the entire Bryston team, you folks are doing really fantastic work.
Ian
Balanced is nice on the BHA. But it's not gonna make an average HP sound great. Much depends on the gear upstream, and on how loudly one listens to music. Let's not under-rate the SE output. But more choice is better than none, and that is where BHA really outshines the competition, apart from its sonic excellence.
Oh I may very well end up with a balanced cable, looking at Cardas Clear Light terminated in 4 pin XLR potentially.... but I'm in no rush. I'll let this joy of increased sound die off before I do it again!!
This article might make your decision a bit easier. Basically, a Cardas Clear cable made no diff to HD650 SQ.
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/headphone-cable-measurements-part-one