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Old 10-29-2008, 06:59 PM
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Hey All,

We have decided to discontinue the HeadRoom Millett-Hybrid Tube headphone amp effective immediately. It's been a great run for that venerable & unique-sounding HR product but we hope to develop some new vacuum tube head-amp designs sometime in the next couple of years, perhaps including some sweet OTL topologies.

FYi ~ We currently have ONLY one (1) last brand-new HeadRoom Millett-Hybrid unit [w/ the 'Class-A' Home module] remaining on the shelf as of this writing... When that one ships, they're gone forever and officially "collectable"!

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Old 10-29-2008, 07:24 PM
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No wonder they were on sale.

Any chance of a micro tube amp?
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Old 10-29-2008, 07:33 PM
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at this discontinuation.

at "sweet OTL topologies".
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Wow. I drooled over this amp for quite some time.

(and... actually went OTL topology instead.)
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I'm glad you plan on revisiting tubes in the future. I've always wanted to see what Headroom could come up with in a valve amp aimed at something closer to a Max level of refinement. Make it balanced and that would be to die for.
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Old 11-09-2008, 08:05 AM
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I'm glad you plan on revisiting tubes in the future. I've always wanted to see what Headroom could come up with in a valve amp aimed at something closer to a Max level of refinement. Make it balanced and that would be to die for.

It's a very long and technical conversation, but I believe that balancng a tube amp is not advisable as it tends to cancel out some of the anomolies that makes tube so desirable.
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