The ANC mode works great using the included balanced cable from my Naim Uniti HE.
Are you saying the audiophile ninja cable balanced cable doesn’t work with the Solitaire T headphone on and with ANC?
My bedtime setup is the Naim connected balanced to the Solitaire T with ANC on. Granted, you’re going though the DSP on the Solitaire T and not getting the full benefit of a balanced connection.
From my understanding, this is likely not what you think is happening.
@WDitters covers that in his post too:
Actually it does work when using the Audiophile Ninja (or any analogue cable) as long as one powers up the headphones with the switch on the left cup. However since when powered up the audio briefly breaks up while cycling through ANC ON and HQ modes etc I am not 100% convinced that the ST then still operate over a purely passive connection.
As in an earier post I wrote, there are
two power switches on the Solitaire T.
Left earcup turns on or off the entire digital circuitry.
Right earcup turns on, off, or pairing mode of
only the Bluetooth circuitry,
not the DAC or amps (if right earcup is on). ANC is a part of the balanced circuitry.
Any analogue cable connection
bypasses the entire digital circuitry.
However, you can elect to have a wired connection, but reconnect the headphones to a device wirelessly. If that is the case, then the analogue cables will do nothing.
This is my understanding of the cans and its many topology.
Therefore, you can connect to a passive system, but keep the digital circuitry on via the left earcup, and further the Bluetooth circuitry via the right earcup.
As long as you don't use any of the digital circuitry features, it will be there almost like on standby.
However, if you activate ANC or another feature, the cans switch from active passive to active digital.
Now, there is a chance that my understanding is incorrect, however what I've described is what T+A have stated (in shorter words), and the actual design of the headphones are built to do as above as well.
However, I welcome T+A to clarify these points.
