[Anders]

I think the exterior design distinguishes it favourably from the common headphone amplifier jewellery that too of ten is overloaded and sometimes ugly. It is worrying that many seem to suspect inferior sound quality from simple looks. Of course, we still don’t know how it sounds.

 

[knopfy]

Pic from Inside:
Here in this thread:
http://www.hifi-forum.de/viewthread-110-3244.html

 

[Sisyphos]

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Originally Posted by knopfy /img/forum/go_quote.gif Pic from Inside: Here in this thread: http://www.hifi-forum.de/viewthread-110-3244.html

Thanks for posting this link.

I'm seeing no op-amps so it looks like a clean and nice discrete design ...

 

[knopfy]

pure and simple...

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by Sisyphos /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for posting this link. I'm seeing no op-amps so it looks like a clean and nice discrete design ...

It has two socketed OPamps there, it seems to me that is an input Opamps based design, with discrete output buffers:

 

[Sisyphos]

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Originally Posted by Sovkiller /img/forum/go_quote.gif It has two socketed OPamps there, it seems to me that is an input Opamps based design, with discrete output buffers:

Oh, I just didn't scroll down in the thread and therefore only saw the first pictures of the amp.

In the picture you posted the ICs are clearly visible ... doesn't have to be bad thing though.

The final question is: how does it sound? Jens, did you listen to it a bit more so far?

 

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by Sisyphos /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh, I just didn't scroll down in the thread and therefore only saw the first pictures of the amp. In the picture you posted the ICs are clearly visible ... doesn't have to be bad thing though. The final question is: how does it sound? Jens, did you listen to it a bit more so far?

Of course not, and I hope that it sounds very good, to be worth that price tag, and hope we will have another good option out there...

 

[JensL]

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Originally Posted by Sisyphos /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh, I just didn't scroll down in the thread and therefore only saw the first pictures of the amp. In the picture you posted the ICs are clearly visible ... doesn't have to be bad thing though. The final question is: how does it sound? Jens, did you listen to it a bit more so far?

Yeah, I've been using it quite a bit this week, just letting it settle in. I'm ready for some serious listening this weekend.

I've tried it with a T+A SACD-player costing about $4300, so you can't complain that the source didn't do the amp justice...