J Ottawa
100+ Head-Fier
Interesting discussion. I have Neumann NDH-30 and I will be getting a balanced cable in the new year to try out Halo.Thanks!
Agreed with these. He should've done his research on the product thoroughly especially about the Halo having the same power and volume output as the SE.
Skipping to my personal experience with SE against Halo, I agree with him about 50%, but that's because I have tried the Midgard with a lot of headphones that he has used (and from Schiitr) and there are some headphones out there such as the HD650/6XX that has a very noticeable difference in the two outputs while others have negligible difference such as the DCA Aeon 2 Noires. In my experience, the Halo has never been worse sounding than the SE out, but I suspect that the Halo secret sauce is the real-time impedance matching of some headphones with wild impedance swings at certain frequencies and phase error feedback correction as well during the Halo mixed mode feedback circuit which translates to the differences in what we hear. This is pure speculation about the Halo topology and nothing I mention are facts.
PS: that's quite the Schiit collection you have there! Wow!