So, what is this strange looking thing? Its a headphone amp in a personality crisis, thats what it is! It wants to be portable, but have the abilities of a desktop amp, it wants to be cheap'n'chinese but at the same time have the build quality of a shoe made by some italian bloke with too much money and leather.
You might think this is deemed to be a failure before it has even been made, but no! Its not...Though it has a few impracticalities, or well, one really, and that is the shape of it, it is allmost double the width of a normal portable amp which personally made me make a leather carry case with belt straps because it is just not "pocket-able".
Now, enough picking on the fat asian kid! (amp)...Lets see what this is good at. The design looks very nice with the black aluminum, gold writing, blue on/off led and rubberized volume knob.
What this amp is in reality is a desktop am with a rechargeable battery. That results in only 8 hours of usage pr. charge but for most people that should be enough. I will play while it charges so that wont be a problem. It has (all goldplated) RCA and 3,5mm jack inputs and both a 3,5mm and 6,5mm out.
It has been able to drive everything I've used with it so eardrum-shredding levels but with a sound quality and clarity i have rarely found with anything else than amps that cost on the unpleasant side of 200$.
So if you have a crappy source or some headphones that are hard to drive or for other reasons need amplification or cleaner sound then this will be a very good choice if you haven't just won the lottery.
Here's the specs for those interested:
You might think this is deemed to be a failure before it has even been made, but no! Its not...Though it has a few impracticalities, or well, one really, and that is the shape of it, it is allmost double the width of a normal portable amp which personally made me make a leather carry case with belt straps because it is just not "pocket-able".
Now, enough picking on the fat asian kid! (amp)...Lets see what this is good at. The design looks very nice with the black aluminum, gold writing, blue on/off led and rubberized volume knob.
What this amp is in reality is a desktop am with a rechargeable battery. That results in only 8 hours of usage pr. charge but for most people that should be enough. I will play while it charges so that wont be a problem. It has (all goldplated) RCA and 3,5mm jack inputs and both a 3,5mm and 6,5mm out.
It has been able to drive everything I've used with it so eardrum-shredding levels but with a sound quality and clarity i have rarely found with anything else than amps that cost on the unpleasant side of 200$.
So if you have a crappy source or some headphones that are hard to drive or for other reasons need amplification or cleaner sound then this will be a very good choice if you haven't just won the lottery.
Here's the specs for those interested:
| [size=1em]Input Terminal[/size] | Line Input (RCA, 3.5 mm Stereo Mini) |
| [size=1em]Input Impedance[/size] | 11k Ω |
| [size=1em]Output[/size] | Headphone Output (6.3mm Stereophone, 3.5 Stereo Mini) |
| [size=1em]Headphone Impedance[/size] | 16∼600Ω |
| [size=1em]Rated Output[/size] | Stereophone 250+250mW@32Ω Stereo Mini 100+100mW@16Ω |
| [size=1em]Quad OPAMP Circuit[/size] | OPA 2134 x 1 (Socket Type) THD+N : 0.00008%(Max)(2kΩ@1KHz) NJM 4580 x 3 (SMD Type) THD+N : 0.0005%(Max)(2kΩ@1KHz) |
| [size=1em]Driving Voltage[/size] | 12V~15V |
| [size=1em]Power Supply[/size] | AC adapter (12V~15V), battery pack(7.2V) |
| [size=1em]Weight[/size] | 1) about 125g without the battery 2) about 200g with the battery |
| [size=1em]Charging Time[/size] | about 3 ~ 4 hrs |
| [size=1em]Battery Life[/size] | about 8 hrs |
| [size=1em]Dimensions(mm)[/size] | 90 X 90 X 20 (W x D x H) |
