Looking for a portable player

GodAtum · 21 Jan 2016 at 22:21

I'm looking for a portable player with balanced out that supports Tidal. i cannot seem to find one that does both

I could get a AK240 and get the Tidal tracks using Audials but that is a bit of a faff.

lucid · 21 Jan 2016 at 22:53

Why do you need a portable with balanced outputs?

GodAtum · 22 Jan 2016 at 07:13

lucid said:
Why do you need a portable with balanced outputs?

To get the most out of my Noble k10s.

lucid · 22 Jan 2016 at 08:20

GodAtum said:
To get the most out of my Noble k10s.

Hmmm.... Maybe I'm missing something here, but the drive circuitry inside the capsules for headphone is, by design, electrically unbalanced.

My interest was piqued so I looked in to this further. It seems that some headphone manufacturers are using the word 'balanced' to describe the method of separating the the left and right channel grounds to avoid common mode noise and cross talk, but that's not the same as using phase inversion to deal with electrostatically induced noise in long connection cables.

GodAtum · 22 Jan 2016 at 14:53

lucid said:
Hmmm.... Maybe I'm missing something here, but the drive circuitry inside the capsules for headphone is, by design, electrically unbalanced.

My interest was piqued so I looked in to this further. It seems that some headphone manufacturers are using the word 'balanced' to describe the method of separating the the left and right channel grounds to avoid common mode noise and cross talk, but that's not the same as using phase inversion to deal with electrostatically induced noise in long connection cables.

yeah, so for example, on the AK 240s has a balanced 2.5mm out for 4 pole connectors.