[bclark8923]

Hey All,
 
I wanted to compile a list of currently available (or coming soon) balanced/fully balanced amplifiers under $1000 USD, both to help me figure out what I want to purchase as well as help anyone else out! 
 
Please comment below with other amps you know of as well as impressions
 
Fully Balanced:

1. Schiit Mjolnir 2
2. Little Dot Mk VI+
3. Vioelectric HPA V181
4. Matrix Quattro
5. Musical Fidelity MX-HPA
6. Musical Fidelity V90-BHA
7. Audio-GD NFB-1AMP
8. Yulong A28
9. Yulong A18
10. Cavalli Liquid Carbon (Coming Soon)
11. M-Stage HPA-3B (Coming Soon)
12. Stoner Acoustics EGA (Coming Soon)

 
Balanced (SE Input):

1. n/a

 
Portable Balanced:

1. Protector: Emmeline, The Protector: The World's First Balanced, Ultra-Portable Headphone Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
2. SR-71B: Emmeline, SR-71B: A Fully Balanced Portable Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
3. The Intruder: The Intruder, Fully Balanced Amp/USB DAC - Ray Samuels Audio
4. F-35: F-35, The Lightning balanced portable Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
5. LH Labs Geek Out V2/+ (Coming Soon)

 

[kenman345]

Matrix Audio has another Amp, The M-Stage HPA-3B that is supposed to be fully balanced.
 
You can also include the Musical Fidelity V90-BHA and the Musical Fidelity MX-HPA in the lists.
 
While we are at it, We can include some of the Ray Samuel selection if you want to include the portable units. 
 
Audio-GD might have others, but they have a newly released NFB-1AMP that is balanced and around $520 MSRP and then the C-2 is also balanced. 
 
I will try and add more for you when I can. Shall we define better criteria? Like, Balanced but also having SE output? Like the Mjolnir 2 now has balanced and SE output but the original Mjolnir only had dual balanced output. Also, we can get into the types of connectors they use or even if they accept balanced analog input or not. I know in hte past that a Red Wine Audio headphone amp might have balanced output but only SE input

 

[bclark8923]

  Matrix Audio has another Amp, The M-Stage HPA-3B that is supposed to be fully balanced.
 
You can also include the Musical Fidelity V90-BHA and the Musical Fidelity MX-HPA in the lists.
 
While we are at it, We can include some of the Ray Samuel selection if you want to include the portable units. 
 
Audio-GD might have others, but they have a newly released NFB-1AMP that is balanced and around $520 MSRP and then the C-2 is also balanced. 
 
I will try and add more for you when I can. Shall we define better criteria? Like, Balanced but also having SE output? Like the Mjolnir 2 now has balanced and SE output but the original Mjolnir only had dual balanced output. Also, we can get into the types of connectors they use or even if they accept balanced analog input or not. I know in hte past that a Red Wine Audio headphone amp might have balanced output but only SE input

 
Good finds! Updated the first post a bit to reflect some of those, what are the Ray Samuels amps? Added a portable balanced section and renamed the Balanced out SE in to have a better naming

 

[kenman345]

   
Good finds! Updated the first post a bit to reflect some of those, what are the Ray Samuels amps? Added a portable balanced section and renamed the Balanced out SE in to have a better naming

You missed the Audio-GD C-2 I mentioned.
 
Also, the Yulong A28  http://www.yulongaudio.com/en/product_detail.asp?pid=36
 
And the Yulong A18 
 
Ray Samules makes portable amps under $100 that are balanced and are quite well regarded.

 

[kenman345]

Heres a short list for you:
Protector: Emmeline, The Protector: The World's First Balanced, Ultra-Portable Headphone Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
SR-71B: Emmeline, SR-71B: A Fully Balanced Portable Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
The Intruder: The Intruder, Fully Balanced Amp/USB DAC - Ray Samuels Audio
F-35: F-35, The Lightning balanced portable Amp - Ray Samuels Audio
 
All those are balanced and portable, but under $1000 MSRP

 

[bclark8923]

  You missed the Audio-GD C-2 I mentioned.
 
Also, the Yulong A28  http://www.yulongaudio.com/en/product_detail.asp?pid=36
 
And the Yulong A18 
 
Ray Samules makes portable amps under $100 that are balanced and are quite well regarded.

 
I looked at the C-2 but it wasn't balanced unless I was looking at a different C-2

 

[kenman345]

   
I looked at the C-2 but it wasn't balanced unless I was looking at a different C-2

No I was wrong on that, sorry, saw the balanced output plug but didnt click and read.