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Massdrop Cavalli Tube Hybrid $250
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<blockquote data-quote="Nidri" data-source="post: 797558" data-attributes="member: 1342"><p>Agreed they made an unfortunate design choice here with that exposed valve.</p><p></p><p>G I think the Headphone Internet is abuzz with anticipation because Cavalli amps are generally pretty dear. </p><p>Their only amp under the $2,999 mark is/was the (now sold out) $799 Carbon.</p><p>(https://www.cavalliaudio.com/products/liquid-carbon-2-0-headphone-amplifier)</p><p></p><p>Is the hype justified? Who knows. All I'm saying is I might just go ahead and take one for the team on this one.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I can't comment definitively as to the possible benefits (or pointlessness) of providing a 'balanced' 4-pin XLR headphone output from a single-ended design, but my guess is that someone somewhere did some 'research' and determined that the balanced output is now a 'must-have' feature, so marketing insists that you provide it, whether it makes sense or not. And so most new headphone amps seem to provide them. In the same way that DACs 'have to' support crazy-high DSD rates (yawn).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nidri, post: 797558, member: 1342"] Agreed they made an unfortunate design choice here with that exposed valve. G I think the Headphone Internet is abuzz with anticipation because Cavalli amps are generally pretty dear. Their only amp under the $2,999 mark is/was the (now sold out) $799 Carbon. (https://www.cavalliaudio.com/products/liquid-carbon-2-0-headphone-amplifier) Is the hype justified? Who knows. All I'm saying is I might just go ahead and take one for the team on this one. P.S. I can't comment definitively as to the possible benefits (or pointlessness) of providing a 'balanced' 4-pin XLR headphone output from a single-ended design, but my guess is that someone somewhere did some 'research' and determined that the balanced output is now a 'must-have' feature, so marketing insists that you provide it, whether it makes sense or not. And so most new headphone amps seem to provide them. In the same way that DACs 'have to' support crazy-high DSD rates (yawn). [/QUOTE]
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