FireLion
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No. There's a huge and common misunderstanding about what "balanced" means. Balanced circuits are those that have equal impedances on both legs. So I could make a balanced DAC with one chip driving one leg and the other leg connected to a resistor with the same value as the first leg's source impedance.
Many people confuse balanced outputs with differential outputs. A differential circuit may or may not be balanced, a balanced circuit may or may not be differential. The only thing that matters is equal impedances to achieve the noise rejection of balanced operation.
Aren't some DAC's capable of it and others not, I wonder what the spec sheet for the chip used says?
According to the specs it has 8 channels and I think you need a minimum of 6 to have fully balanced capability?
https://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/datasheet1/?partno=AK4452VN