NewFantasia 2.5mm Trrs Balanced Male to 3.5mm 1/8" TRS Stereo Male Audio Cable Compatible with Astell&Kern AK240 AK380 onkyo AK320 DP-X1 FIIO and for Home Stereos, Car Stereos, Speaker

This cable was leaps and bounds better than the 4.4mm balanced cable that I just purchased not too long ago from the same company. The 2 cables look alike, but this cable works flawlessly.

It works! I've got to say, I was skeptical at first but bought it just in case it did work due to Amazon's return policy. From what I've read online, many people were saying you won't get a signal when converting to 3.5 from balanced but it works, you do in fact get a signal. Now the BTR5 has a stronger output on the balanced output so my music is clearly louder, I use USB Audio Player with my tidal subscription, set to bit perfect for MQA playback, and it works. Now, if it's truly balanced, I cannot say because I'm not going to direct the cords and test with my flux capacitor because I don't know all that black magic juju, but I do know what I hear and feel, and this music is great and the cord worksCord is also VERY long which is good, can always wrap upI can't give it a five star due to not knowing if it's truly balanced, but if I knew I would rate it 5. It's definitely a 5 star product by what I hear and it getting the job done. Cord is three cords braided together and the cord doesn't have much flex in it, its pretty stiff, and I assume fragile if bent, I am not going to test it, but just a heads up

Little stiff but not a deal breaker. I am using it between my Btr5 and my Audio Technica ATH-MSR7 headphones. Nice clarity and soundstage opens up quite a bit more over the stock cables.

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Pretty good cable, used it to connect between the balance output of BTR5 and my car, but can’t really tell if it’s running balance to the end of 3.5mm, it does sound different