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Originally Posted by Ivy
More interesting to me, is why did we show a product at Headfest that was so far away from production? Well, because you guys are special.  |
The really real reason was because Tyll was so incredibly excited about the desktop audio concept that he couldn't contain himself!
AND THAT IS COOL! Just describing how he was going to set up the HeadRoom room in advance of HeadFest led to Tyll describe his new fascination with the Squeezebox/Transporter, some upgrade software that predicts what you want to hear, and how it unleashed his music collection, etc. etc. etc. Plus, the prototypes at HeadFest were mocked up to some extent for our benefit and rightly generated a lot of interest and attention, but it was always clear that these were coming out down the road.
Tyll is looking forward for his company and for our hobby, so there is nothing remotely wrong with an advertising campaign to get others to look ahead too.
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Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens
Seriously, one of the reasons we're doing the series of ads is because people mostly don't understand what our Desktop amps can do. They're really not a headphone amp as much as they are a Desktop Pre-Amp ----someday we'll rename it something like that. We've found that it's VERY difficult to deliver the impression quickly (which is what you have to do in an ad) of the type of things the Desktop Amp is capable of. We determined the best way to get the ides across is to essentially complete a Desktop Audio System, take a picture of it, and then publish it. Audiophiles will see a complete system that bares a resemblance to what they've got in the listening room and they'll "get it." So a lot of our motive is to get the idea across that a fully featured headphone amp is really a great "center" for your desktop audio.
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Back to the original point of this thread, my HeadRoom Desktop amp IS the the center of my desktop audio even though the amp part gets the least play. Mine is connected to the s/pdif out of my laptop dock and works primarily as DAC and preamp for powered monitors. I listen to headpones in the office seldom but they are here if I want them. It is a great setup and plays music every day for hours a day. If the speaker and amplification were even better, then it would be equal to many home rigs (it probably blows out many, many home setups already, if I do say so myself).
When Tyll started talking about the Class D amps and speaker stands he was cooking up, I said that was exactly what I had been asking for. When I set this rig up, I thought there had to be some incentive for HeadRoom to make this very leap to matching power amps and I am excited like Tyll is for the landing.