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Headphone amplifier with balanced pass-through?

Veri

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Just wondering if anyone knows of any... for example, the THX 789/887 have SE passthrough but not balanced.
So far haven't found any that offer this.

Thanks for any tips :)
 

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So your looking for a something like the THX 789/788 that will take in a balanced signal and then output it using a balanced connection?
 

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I assume he wants something that will let him hook up the HP amp to a DAC, and then also have it output to speakers. I'm not aware of any off the top of my head, and it's definitely a feature that's uncommon enough that my suggestion would just to be to use either a Y splitter cable or a input/output switcher box instead rather than trying to limit yourself to only HP amps that have it.
 

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My next headphone amplifier, the upcoming Topping A90 has a balanced pass-through:
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My next headphone amplifier, the upcoming Topping A90 has a balanced pass-through:
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Martin
Yes so far this is the main contender. It's not a real pass-through though as far as I know but a pre-out, but given the ultra low distortion it shouldn't really matter. Thanks.
 
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