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The pinnacle of headphone listening, here you'll find the best balanced headphones.

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Headphones: Balanced

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Balanced headphones (used along with balanced headphone amps) offer superb clarity, resolution and soundstage.  You can purchase stock balanced headphones, or some models are available for after-market recabling.

HeadRoom released the world's first balanced headphone amp back in 1999, and since then balanced headphone drive has become the pinnacle of headphone fidelity for many enthusiasts and audiophiles. Balanced headphones have two XLR terminations, one for the left channel and one for the right. The left and right headphone drivers are then actively driven at both sides of the coil with normal and inverted audio signals.

Stock balanced headphones are listed below for purchase.

A few headphone models have after-market cables that can be purchased and user-replaced.

Some headphones can be re-terminated to balanced drive right in our HeadRoom factory. Visit our article on Recabling Headphones to learn more.

Read our Article Series to learn all about how balanced headphone drive works.

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Sennheiser HD 800 Balanced
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$1,649.95
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Sennheiser HD 800 Balanced

Sennheiser HD800 converted by us and made ready for HeadRoom BUDA XLR balanced-drive headphone amp

AKG K550 Balanced Fat Pipe Upgrade 10ft
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$549.00
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AKG K550 Balanced Fat Pipe Upgrade 10ft

NEW! AKG's best sealed headphones made ready for our best HeadRoom BUDA balanced-drive amp. A HeadRoom exclusive!

Beyerdynamic Tesla T1 Balanced
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$1,449.00
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Beyerdynamic Tesla T1 Balanced

Beyerdynamic's best heaphones made fabulously ready for HeadRoom balanced XLR headphone amps

AKG K701 Balanced Fat Pipe Upgrade 10ft
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$649.00
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AKG K701 Balanced Fat Pipe Upgrade 10ft

K701 recabled for balanced headphone amps at HeadRoom USA with 10ft Cardas 'Fat Pipe' cord. HeadRoom exclusive!

Beyerdynamic DT880 w/ 10ft HeadRoom Balanced Fat Pipe
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$559.00
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Beyerdynamic DT880 w/ 10ft HeadRoom Balanced Fat Pipe

Beyerdynamic DT880's recabled for XLR balanced drive from your friends at HeadRoom with 10ft of Cardas Fat-Pipe headphone cord. The audio love is in the details.