It is balanced or not?


Hello everyone, I am new to this page, I thank the Audiogon team for allowing me to be here with you, I have a question: I have the preamp and DAC: "Emotiva Differential Reference XDA-1" it has the following digital inputs: "S/PDIF (optical and coaxial) and AES/EBU (XLR)", the XDA-1 has balanced outputs for an speakers amplifier, inside it has the amplifier: "Texas Instruments Burr Brown OPA2134" and I want to know if it really works balanced; the XDA-1 has the DAC: "Analog Devices AD1955" inside. thanks
joser9616

Showing 1 response by georgehifi

Too many sources and amps are really SE main circuitry with opamps on the input or output to make them pseudo balanced (xlr) just to suck in the xlr freaks.

In these cases stick with SE, and you bypass these opamps (best opamp is no opamp). You only need balanced (xlr) if your running 10mts of interconnect through bad surroundings with lots of rf emitting equipment.
Cheers George