On first thought I would be included to agree .. yet my personal experience is that some headphones are more efficient and some headphones are less efficient.. Planars are a good example as their technology simply makes them less efficient than dynamic headphones. But dynamic headphones also vary in impedance and sensitivity depending on the way they are built … In my experience some headphones therefore actually do benefit from the additional drive they get from a balanced amplifier ..
And in there lies the other (in my experience) perceived difference… Some headphone amplifiers benefit from the silence and lack of channel interference that a fully balanced setup can offer .. which translates into blackness and silent backgrounds … There, headphones, by allowing balanced connections, are mostly an enabler![Grinning face with big eyes :smiley: 😃](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png)
But .. as often in this hobby, it’s the ears and the brain that determine the experience here … and those two factors are always different from person to person![Hugging face :hugging: 🤗](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f917.png)
And in there lies the other (in my experience) perceived difference… Some headphone amplifiers benefit from the silence and lack of channel interference that a fully balanced setup can offer .. which translates into blackness and silent backgrounds … There, headphones, by allowing balanced connections, are mostly an enabler
![Grinning face with big eyes :smiley: 😃](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png)
But .. as often in this hobby, it’s the ears and the brain that determine the experience here … and those two factors are always different from person to person
![Hugging face :hugging: 🤗](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f917.png)