tincanear
Headphoneus Supremus
Some (but not all) hardware balanced DAC's using two DAC chips can provide 1 extra bit of resolution (provided that the chips have sufficiently low non-linearity like the mondo expensive ADI chips used in yggy with 1 LSB non-linearity, digital filter feeds each DAC chip separately, etc. That's how yggy achieves 21 bits of resolution using two 20 bit DAC chips.
Balanced, can, in some situations (but not always) reduce the effects of ground current noise (loop is thru multiple devices, the AC line power grounding, signal grounds between devices).
Balanced, can, in some situations (but not always) reduce the effects of ground current noise (loop is thru multiple devices, the AC line power grounding, signal grounds between devices).