chrislangley4253
Headphoneus Supremus
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Balancing headphones does not "just remove the common ground" . It feeds the ground wire for each channel (separately of course) with an inverse signal. So the driver gets instead of signal/ground signal/inverse signal. To make that more easy to visualise you could picture it like: the signal voltage pushes the driver, while simultaneously the inverse signal pulls the driver with the same, but inversely directed force.
When you have balanced gear it does that.. If you are running your balanced headphones off a regular headphone setup, The only benefit is removing the shared ground, as previously mentioned. I don't need help visualizing it.. I know how balanced audio works. We are just talking about two different things here. You are comparing a balanced set up to a single ended setup. I'm talking balanced headphone vs single ended headphone when the rest of the gear is regular. I might not have made that clear, apologies.
It is Chris' tone and attitude that is the problem here, and I don't see where I made an assumption???? He made an "I'll tell you how it is" -statement that was beside the point, wrong and misdirecting.
Nothing baseless about stating that.
I couldn't care less about my credibility in these forums any more lately.
I think once you recognize that we are talking about two different things you will see that my statement wasn't wrong or misdirecting.
Finally, something we agree upon with the credibility
*edit* Also, my original statement was a little nonspecific and not exactly factual. After rereading it, I can see why you thought I was talking about balanced gear in general and not specifically about balanced vs unbalanced using a regular amp, such as the O2. I will edit it accordingly. This should also be my last post on the matter. Sorry for gunking up the thread guys.. I certainly didn't intend to offend anyone and I wasn't looking for an argument by any means.
Boy, that was a mess, we were both a little wrong in one way or another, I think.
How 'bout dem Paradox?