Headphone Heights

I don't think you will lose much of anything...

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In Reply to: RE: Balanced drive headphone amp and cans, but not source posted by Frihed89 on September 19, 2013 at 06:39:00

... because the audio signal tubes in our "balanced drive" DNA headphone amps are DC heated there should be zero background noise generated by the amp itself - or when you use most any type of source component, for that matter. At least, that's how wonderfully my DNA amp performs in my own headphone system.
So, I don't believe that using source components with balanced outputs would provide much of an advantage in your case. Fully balanced topology is not a feature found in DNA Audio products, to date.
That said, I'm sure that Donald North himself would be much better at answering these kinds of technical questions than I am. Have you tried asking him about this?

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