Just bought 58x looking for my first AMP/DAC

At this level no, balanced is a design choice, and a balanced amp is not always better than a single ended one, it really just depends on amp quality more imo. At this price point balanced typically only added extra cost with little benefit

If you get a balanced amp, use it balance, but if you get a single ended amp, don’t worry about it, it’s not like you are missing out on anything only because you have a single ended amp

Usability wise balanced interconnects will be preferable if you have lots of interference or ground loops, or need to make long cable runs, but for this application I don’t think you need to worry about that (unless you know you have the issue)

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