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Headphones - is it worthwhile to get balanced cable for Audeze LCD-x ?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 997" data-source="post: 1127858" data-attributes="member: 997"><p>With a collection like that, you are definitely not allowed to call yourself a newbie! Balanced is usually a question of gain. Some headphones do like having more voltage swing, but if you carefully gain matched them single ended and balanced I think you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference.</p><p></p><p>I think for enjoyment of your HD820, rather than a question of gain, could need to explore different pairing options with a headphone amplifier. Both amplifiers that you have are heavily opamp based, and would feature quite a bit of feedback, so they would introduce some artifacts and edginess that would reduce enjoyment of that headphone.</p><p></p><p>If you really like that headphone and would explore optimising it further, I'd explore options like a valve based headphone amplifier, though I noted you already have some valve gear. The Cayin headphone amplifiers (available from Lumous Audio for example), or a solid state amp from the likes from SPL (the Phonitor) are really good options which could improve your enjoyment of the Sennheisers if you can audition these somewhere. You already have great digital sources, so an amplifier would defnitely be a spot where you'd find some improvement in terms of matching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 997, post: 1127858, member: 997"] With a collection like that, you are definitely not allowed to call yourself a newbie! Balanced is usually a question of gain. Some headphones do like having more voltage swing, but if you carefully gain matched them single ended and balanced I think you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference. I think for enjoyment of your HD820, rather than a question of gain, could need to explore different pairing options with a headphone amplifier. Both amplifiers that you have are heavily opamp based, and would feature quite a bit of feedback, so they would introduce some artifacts and edginess that would reduce enjoyment of that headphone. If you really like that headphone and would explore optimising it further, I'd explore options like a valve based headphone amplifier, though I noted you already have some valve gear. The Cayin headphone amplifiers (available from Lumous Audio for example), or a solid state amp from the likes from SPL (the Phonitor) are really good options which could improve your enjoyment of the Sennheisers if you can audition these somewhere. You already have great digital sources, so an amplifier would defnitely be a spot where you'd find some improvement in terms of matching. [/QUOTE]
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