What you fail to understand is that a balanced output has more conductors than the 3-conductor 3.5mm standard could possibly transfer.
So between your hacked "balanced" output and the plain single ended output, the volume is the exact same, except that you are taking unnecessary risks in shorting out the amplifier. It could be the Sabaj has protection for this, predicting certain users abusing the device. Great! You are still getting zero benefits of the balanced output. This is truly the essentials, I suggest you Google around a bit...
You should stop to make assumptions because so far they we're all wrong. By using the 4pin xlr (hack) i'm not looking to improve SQ i'm just getting the right amount of power that i need out of the unit because 56 mw are not consistently enough. But 1.3w are a different story, and even you should know that.
Sonically speaking as a human beign i fail to hear the so called improvement of 4pin over single ended. But unfortunately exists and i'm forced to use it despite the fact i don't want to. As well i refuse to spend hundreds of dollars in getting one extra cable for every set of headphones i own with zero benefits but several downsides.
Yes ! u get close to what i think is the case, here, hence the claim u did before where many rushed to like wasn't exactly appropriate. What i stated before is not "universal" neither i claimed is ! I claimed in the Sabaj D5 topic that this unit can handle this "abuse", i wasn't explicit is not like i got the chance to be....
Again u made assumptions that i don't know is an "abuse", neither i know the risks, and again u where WRONG. My money, my equipment, mine are the risks which i accepted without complaints, 6 months later i can call this a myth when comes to this unit but if u google there's plenty of people successful with other units over the web. As well u will find people which are not, this comes down to internal design, how many units poorly designed are out on the market sold for thousands of dollars or we want to deny that ?
Hence the "hack" will "be fine" (in the long term) on better designed units (this is a guess) but as a "concept" is not universal (here i invite u to read and understand the definition of the term in physics)
I feel i get the same kind of hate that NwAVGuy got back in the early days, and he ended by becoming a super hero in the community. Odd isn't ?! and we souldn't start to hate, we should try understand the "why" the meaning the purpose, collect information.... But when your glass of knowledge is to full you think you know everything = arrogance
In conclusion according to your mentality i should lower my intelect and call you moron as well ?! But i won't i'm well to educated for that.