Hi everybody. I am happy that V281-LE is now delivered to the customers. There had been lots of delays during production and delivery. But it still seems that there are some complaints about the 128-step reed-relay volume control. Like before inside the "old" V281 with the 128-step relay...

Hi Jeffrey. First of all, plugging in other than the original op-amps is NOT recommended at all !! Also, when some damages will appear, these are not covered by the warranty ! You can see as an example what happens when plugging in such devices: Sometimes it may work, sometimes not. DC was...

What does "TRUE BALANCED" mean concerning the Violectric amps. Although written many times, here again some explanations: There are more and more amps in the market, featuring a balanced headphone connector (4-pin XLR / Pentaconn) but only SE amps inside. So, these sockets are more a...

True Balanced in case of the Lake People and Violectric amps mean, that there are really 4 amplifiers inside. We like to express that because there are more and more amps in the market featuring balanced "convenience" headphone outputs but having only 2 amps. The only "cheating" amp in the...

B and S as part of the serial number had been denoted after the introduction of silver front panels

... the color of the front panel, sorry, now it's more clear. The cases had always been Nextel coated, except the FE edition (final edition) with a black anodized front and case, denoted "FE" in the serial number.

B means black, S means silver

There are 2 ways to connect a V280 to subsequent equipment. 1. (not for V280 FE) set the internal jumpers to have the unbalanced rear RCA connectors as outputs. The rear balanced inputs can be used also for unbalanced source with a RCA to XLR adaptor. On the RCA outputs the buffered input...

Here the brochures of the new HPA V202 and HPA V222 - hopefully now without typo ...

see post 326 https://www.head-fi.org/threads/violectric-hpa-v281-vorsprung-durch-balanced.705318/page-22#post-10807716

Some words about the differences between Niimbus US 4 / US 4+ / US 5 / US 5 Pro The audio circuitry and power supply circuitry is totally identical on all 4 items. This concerns the inputs (although US 4 offers less inputs), the line outputs, the headphone amps, the power supply. Nothing is...

There is no LED indicator in the volume knobs from any Violectric model. This (unfortunately very expensive) feature is reserved for our Niimbus line. Concerning the volume knob from V340/V380 it was initially intended to use the volume knob from V281 (without white mark). So are the official...

Nobody must be puzzled of not receiving his ordered HPA V280 amp. We shipped our complete inventory to Drop - nothing left in stock ! As far as I know Drop scheduled the delivery somewhen in July. Would like to hear some hopefully positive opinions ... But as the successors of V281 and V280...

... it maybe your source, it may be your headphones, it maybe your cables, it maybe your ears. But chances are very low that it is the amp. Anyway, that is the reason for the balance control.

Hello Everybody. Normally I don´t answer to posts like „Why do they use cheapo Neutrik XLR sockets instead of outstanding ones from the xxx brand”. But sometime I feel I have to adjust things … Neutrik is THE supplier for high quality XLR sockets and connectors. Among others they also offer RCA...