paradoxper
Headphoneus Supremus
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True.
And generally speaking you'll have those that say a SE amp sound better than balanced. CMRR/crosstalk are the only benefits to balanced yet you can tie the grounds
and use a 4-pin connector making the often more expensive balanced moot.
Even there it is difficult if not impossible to remove the variables. You would need to have a 'balanced' amp and one that wasn't that were as close as possible to being identical in topology and specifications and this is challenging to say the least. Generally speaking, what people are saying is this 'balanced' amp is better than that conventional one which says nothing about the topology.
I suspect that much of the perceived benefits of 'balanced' is in the connector which eliminates the common ground lead, and not in the actual topology, yet you seldom hear of someone using that configuration with a conventional amp.
True.
And generally speaking you'll have those that say a SE amp sound better than balanced. CMRR/crosstalk are the only benefits to balanced yet you can tie the grounds
and use a 4-pin connector making the often more expensive balanced moot.