davehg
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That was my thinking too. My Lumin streamer sounds better with balanced outs so the WA22 fits the bill, and it takes up less space, and i feel less guilty about what I’ve sunk into it vs the WA5. If the Leben headphone outputs were as good as the WA22 or if it had balanced inputs and outputs it would be nice to just use one amp for space reasons, but the Leben is pretty austere as a headphone amp, which is not its core purpose.It's human nature; eventually you'll want to come back to headphones so you may want to keep the WA-22 for that time.
I’ve got a bit of a dilemma on the headphones too.I love the pairing of the LCD3 and WA5 - just amazing. The Focal is fine too, but the difference between the WA5 and WA22 is not as big on the Focal as on the Audeze. The HD650 is happy either way. The Leben seems to prefer the LCD3. I may just keep all the headphones for the time being and save them for a rainy day when I want to reconnect and switch things up.