ALO/ Red Wine Audio Desk Top Headphone Amp (Amphora) W/ PHOTOS - Page 3

Ken,
give us your first listening impressions.
PLEASE.
How it sound with GS1000 ?
Time of burning hours for the caps inside ?

I just found out that I will be taking a road trip from Vancouver Canada to Battle Mountain Navada this spring. It will take me through Washigton, Oregon, Idio and Navada.I will have to wait and see when this trip would take place but I am thinking in May some time.I could stop by and buy one of your amps when I am in Oregon or if it turns out these are hot sellers I may have to get my hands on one in advance of my road trip.

Ken could you post pictures :
One in Padauk and a second in Walnut ?
It can be usefull to make a choice.
Thank you.

Ken and Vinnie, that is one beautiful amp. I really look forward to more impressions as well as pictures of the paduak enclosure which should be stunning.

Are the two headphones out in parallel? Thanks.

Since you probably don't have one completed in Padauk, yet, could you just post a pic of two planks of the two colors?

Thanks to Ken and Vinnie for their support for the Carolina Audio Society and our big headfi meet.

The meet was very well attended. Joe Grado gave a wonderful and informative 1 hour presentation. And I had lots of visitors to hear RWA and the Amphora gear.

For the most part I put the Amphora front and center, either driving ALO cabled AKG K702s, or on occasion, a headphone brought by an attendee.

There were a lot of pricey rigs at this meet. Probably more than you’d expect in a small city like Charlotte, so technically the Amphora was a budget product by comparison.

At this point no one has posted comments for the meet on in Comments Tread, so it may be a day or more before others provide their feedback. But I received a number of favorable comments. One of the most telling was that a number of people commented that they previously had not liked the sound of AKG headphones (like 701s). One even said he bought and returned a recabled pair from one of ALO's competitors.

The universal complaint was they thought AKGs were too bright. Yet everyone who made this comment felt the AKGs were NOT bright via the Amphora rig. Too this I would agree. The AKGs were IMO (for my taste) one of the best cans I heard at my table (not counting the K1000s driven straight from the Signature 30.2, which is a whole 'nother animal.)

In time we will hear what others have to report. But for me, I had a blast. And felt proud to have ALO / RWA gear featured at my table.

Good listening. Kent

Wow, carolina is really lucky to have been able to listen to the amp!!! I am super jealous.

yes, but carolina doesn't talk about the sound quality exepted than AKG sound less bright ...
Waiting more comments.

I have to say I am quite eager to get some first hand impressions as well.
This could be a very nice all rounder for the office as well as some business travel - the iMod "Capped" connection and the 1/8'' plug + battery support that idea :-)

Hi mrarroyo,

Yes - the two headphone outputs are in parallel. The Amphora has no trouble with low impedance loads. So even if you connect two 32-ohm headphones in parallel (16-ohm equivalent load), it is not a problem...

Vinnie

What are the impedances input (lin in) and output ( preamp ) ?
Thanks.

Hi Rico67,

Input impedance = 20k
Preamp Output impedance is < 100 ohms

-Vinnie

Thanks Vinnie for all replies so far, yet here's me with another silly question.
I may have missed it in one of the earlier posts so far but would have one more querie in the power supply
Will the amp be powered in any case by the internal battery even when the wall wart is plugged in?
In other words is the wall wart just for charging or can/will the amp be powered by the wall wart when plugged in?
I seem to remember that the Isabella had a switch to change between wall wart and battery but maybe I got this wrong...

Thanks again,
Chris