Review: Portable amp roundup! 56 portable amps reviewed and compared - FINAL update 12-20-10... - Page 93  

What does the soundstage switch do?

Is it effective or just doesnt do much

I don't use it very much, and the change is not very large. Some say it is good to use when watching tv or a movie.

lol i thought you were talking about the amp for a minute. I forgot what i wrote and when i read it through my email notification i got a shock

It seems like iBasso is coming out with the next new portable amp - P2

Our local distributor just received a sample unit for testing.

The new P2 is suppose to be better amp than their previous product. DIP socket for opamp rolling together with Bass and Gain switch

http://www.sgheadphones.net/index.ph...=0&#entry95878

Great Will be waiting to hear your review.

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Nice Sky, waiting to hear/read your impressions of this Class D machine. Fit and finish look second to none in the photo's I've veiwed;-)

Seems it would look very special strapped to a black iTank:-)

Be a little on the large side for vigerous portable use but that could probably be overcome easily with the right case;-)

Look forward to your impressions.

LOL exactly.........actually that rig probably looks real small on Shaq's head and in his hands:-0

Sky, now that Xenos is RIP, Go-Vibe temporarily moribund, the Meier portables you review all out of pruduction, and I'm sure a couple of others have gone the way of the dodo, maybe it's time for a quick edit just on the ranking list, so people can tell at a glance what's still in production and what isn't? I'm just thinking parentheses or something similar.

This is silly. Portable headphone amps were invented to amp headphone outs, not line outs. Plain-jane headphone out signals can sound dramatically better when they are feeding an amp instead of driving transducers. And anyway, most line outs in general and especially portable ones don't bypass the opamps, they just bypass the volume attenuator, which now happens mostly in the digital stage, so there is actually very little difference between the line-out signal and the headphone out.

Line outs are great, and can have a good impact on SQ, but that's no reason to scare people away from amping their cruddy mp3 players, which would be a real improvement for them.