Headphones and the Devialet

[Womaz]

Ian thanks again for the very comprehensive post.
A lot of what you say about the Burson models I had already worked out with some extensive reading -)

I am now asking myself if having a balanced input to my amp that important?
If there is little difference to sound quality then why do people prefer the Balanced option.

Option 1 - yes this is what I am doing now , so for 5 years I have had a balanced Tauris amp not set up as a Balanced amp and I did not even know ;-)
I can just set the Burson up exactly the same and this would then be the 3R which is £400 cheaper too.

Option 2 - sounds like a waste of time

Option 3 - I like to keep things simple , so this does not appeal. I would also be introducing more boxes or adaptors which may even affect the sound quality too, so for me this is not an option

Option 4 - I will explore this. I would assume its fairly simple and would mean using the Configurator to do this. This fills me with dread but I am sure I could do this

So for me after discounting options 2 and 3, then only option 4 will give me full balanced operation. is this correct?

You also mention about using the Devialet as a pre-amp. I assume this is what I am doing now with the 200 and the Taurus amp? The Taurus has no DAC so I have always assumed the 200 is doing some sort of digital to analogue conversion.

One last thing. Nucleus straight to the Burson . Yes it can be by USB but both USB inputs are being used by me right now. One for back ups and one connects to the Devialet. So I would have to find another way to perform Roon Back ups. Again not ideal. I am not sure how i would use the Roon Control app then too?

A lot to think about and I will explore option 4 and once again many thanks