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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
joser9616 OP
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@auxinput Hi, I think I have something better than the Emotiva in my house and I did not know it, it's the Roland Mobile UA, it's a USB Audio Interface for headphones and it can also be used balanced to studio monitors: https://www.roland.com/global/products/mobile_ua/, it has this inside, amps:http://www.ti.com/product/TPA6120A2/description, DAC:https://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/datasheet1/?partno=AK4414EQ, and I think this works as pre amps: http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sbos484a/sbos484a.pdf 
did you think this is better? thanks.
auxinput
2,920 posts
 
No, not likely better than Emotiva DAC.
joser9616 OP
29 posts
 
Ok, but why?, it has a better hardware...
joser9616 OP
29 posts
 
@auxinput Hello, I'll be extremely honest, the Roland Mobile UA sounds a lot more detailed, with all types of music, Jazz, Rock, Classical Rock, Classical music, everything sounds better, it's a bit more on the treble side, but not in a way that offends or dislikes. congrats to all the fathers, have a good day.
joser9616 OP
29 posts
 
The Texas Instruments OPA1642 works as Low Pass Filter FET-input opamps and it is used in high end receivers and the Texas Instruments TPA6120A2 works as Output buffers and they are high fidelity amps used in high end USB interfaces for headphones, it works balanced and you can conect it to an amp, believe me, more detailed sound.
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