Direct SE to SE comparison, not much. I listened to Magnius’ SE enough to know it was not on the level of its balanced performance (to be clear, I’m talking about SE output, whether SE or BAL input was used made no difference that I can remember atm). The Magnius’ SE output is maybe slightly better than the JDS Labs Atom amp, but on its own doesn’t justify the $100 jump in cost over the Atom, IMO. I compared “A-game on A-game” between Magnius and Asgard 3 (among several others Get AMPed! WaveTheory's Roundup of (most) <$200 Head Amps) and found the Asgard 3 to pull way ahead of everything else <$200 I’ve been able to hear. At that point the direct SE-to-SE comparison felt superfluous since Magnius BAL is already > than Magnius SE and Asgard 3 was comfortably ahead already. The gap would only get bigger.
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