[macdonjh]

I rank Ben as Batman below LEGO Batman and above Val Kilmer Batman.

Now that is telling.

 

[tincanear]

Hmmmm..... Tubes and single-ended, or SS and balanced. Let me think about that for a nanosecond yoctosecond. Nah, won't take that long.

Tubes *and* balanced? That may be worth a whirl...

FTFY

 

[macdonjh]

I am home. Ugh...

I am looking at the Modius as perhaps a way to to "upgrade" to the balanced stuff via bringing the Magnius in later. But you sir, are correct. I am a fan of the glow of tubes. As I do not have any headphones with those balanced plugs on them and doubt I would buy any right now perhaps I am out of my league on this. I wonder if there are adaptors for this sort of thing or if that is just plain dumb of me. Is this "Jot 2" a new and upcoming device? I saw a Jotenheim amp on the Schiit website but nothing about a "2" that I could readily see in the products menu on the left of the page. The Jotenheim shown has a regular 'phone jack as well as a balanced one.

Do you folks think this is a good way to go? I still can use my Valhalla 2 with or without any external DAC. Thank you all for the guidance.

ORT

You can use and adapter to connect a head phone with a balanced connection to a "normal" head phone amp. For example, an adapter with a 4-pin XLR for the head phone and a 1/4" TRS phono plug for the amplifier. That way, you're only connecting the (-) conductors of the head phones together before connecting them to the amp.

You cannot use an adapter to connect a "normal" head phone to an amp with a balanced output. That adapter would connect the (-) outputs of the amplifier together, creating a short circuit.

 

[StimpyWan]

Lewis Wilson - Batman 1943

 

[macdonjh]

Before: 84 of 84
Now: 84 of 86

Does that mean I've moved up?

 

[Ken G]

I bet Adam West prefers tubes!

So Batman wears his headphones on his mask bat ears and not over his human ears?

 

[JLoud]

Lewis Wilson - Batman 1943

Holy uneven ears Batman!

 

[Plautus001]

...and we all consider Kamloops chicken-town. Don't even get me started about Campbell River (spent a year in that smelly-sweaty-sock-den-of-inequity [ah, pulp mills]).

Actually I like Kamloops and Campbell River... I used to travel to both during my stint in the audio business. We vacation in the Okanagan during non-covid times (so many great wines )

 

[OldRoadToad]

You can use and adapter to connect a head phone with a balanced connection to a "normal" head phone amp. For example, an adapter with a 4-pin XLR for the head phone and a 1/4" TRS phono plug for the amplifier. That way, you're only connecting the (-) conductors of the head phones together before connecting them to the amp.

You cannot use an adapter to connect a "normal" head phone to an amp with a balanced output. That adapter would connect the (-) outputs of the amplifier together, creating a short circuit.

Thank you!

ORT

 

[davidfrance]

Before: 84 of 84
Now: 84 of 86

Does that mean I've moved up?

I don’t know, so I shouldn’t guess, but logically that would suggest that you haven’t moved at all. But 2 people have arrived after you.

 

[tincanear]

You can use and adapter to connect a head phone with a balanced connection to a "normal" head phone amp. For example, an adapter with a 4-pin XLR for the head phone and a 1/4" TRS phono plug for the amplifier. That way, you're only connecting the (-) conductors of the head phones together before connecting them to the amp.

You cannot use an adapter to connect a "normal" head phone to an amp with a balanced output. That adapter would connect the (-) outputs of the amplifier together, creating a short circuit.

+1

e.g. AKG K702 comes with a TRS 1/8" plug and 1/8" to 1/4" adapter. this headphone works with SE amplifiers, but not balanced ones using 4-pin XLR connection. some headphones have user-replaceable cables to allow for connection to SE or balanced amplifiers (e.g. HD600, HD800, DCA Aeon)

 

[tincanear]

Before: 84 of 84
Now: 84 of 86

Does that mean I've moved up?

now you are no longer the last one in line, that's for sure. so in a misery-loves-company sort of way, you have moved up.

 

[tincanear]

That was the Tumbler, from The Dark Knight Trilogy.

@StimpyWan thanks much!

 

[tin-ear]

@StimpyWan thanks much!

I thought I recognized that Batmobile. Yep, I had watched this Jay Leno video a while back.
In the 1960s and for many years George Barris, who built the 1960's Batmobile would proudly display various cars he built in his shop, or out in the parking lot, in the San Fernando Valley--Toluca Lake? North Hollywood. I must have seen that Bat Mobile 10, 30 times?

 

[dieslemat]

I bet Adam West prefers tubes!

Hence my profile pic