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To my ears, the PS1s get tone right, and the RS1s don't. For the things RS1s work for, they're amazing. But PS1s aren't so limited.

I left bass boost off my m3...

I'd lease a 135i, and have the dealer do all the maintenance. But if you're stretching at $400 a month, you should get a japanese car. BMWs are a pain in the ass if you don't keep up with the maintenance.

Not really, no. You could argue that it's not, but in terms of how it works, a transformer balanced single ended input has all the benefits of being balanced through the entire signal chain, with the exception that you don't get the noise rejection between the source and amp. But really, most people don't need that, because they're not running 100 ft interconnects in a high noise area.

Yes, it's expensive to maintain. It's a finicky pain in the ass. But DAMN fun to drive. And I have less than $2000 in it.

Good transformers can do a better job making a single ended source sound good than some balanced implementations in the sources themselves.

Just a guess, but I'd venture that you are the reason you were getting harrassed by mods.

My RWD/Stick 91 535i is a ton of fun.

That's why god invented blizzaks

As long as you think about what you're asking, and listen and discuss, you'll probably get good advice.

Ooh! How is it? Evangellion is one of my favorite anime ever.

Of course.

you want a balanced one tho. With a really beefy power supply.

Ah, cool. nice thrice

Where? I looked, I couldn't find it.

I love it.

Probably less than $1400 in parts.

The tooleaudio balanced mosfet amplifier does a great job of driving 580s. And has cinemag transformers to balance the iphone input...

My guess: he wants to talk to serious potential customers, to upsell.

There are plenty of people who like RSA who aren't dismissed in general. But you dismissed headphones based on a setup that would have very little likelihood of sounding good.

I'd bet the problem is the exchange rate.

We're comparing to the apache right? Does it matter?

Chances are the eddie current balanced offerings are better. Odds are good a couple of transformers and some jacks in a cardboard box would be better.

Start at balanced mini3, go through balanced millett max, continue through balanced m3, then on to 4 and 6 channel beta22s. I think there are a number of variants of gilmores amps that can be had balanced for under $2500 as well.

You're kidding right?