Can this bypass battery when plugged in?
Yes.
Is there is an option to choose wall power or battery?
No.
Can this bypass battery when plugged in?
Is there is an option to choose wall power or battery?
When running on wall power, the battery is smart -- it is out of the way, unless the charger is wimpy. Then, the battery kicks in to help during loud passages. Otherwise, it's not there. Just remains topped-up.Can this bypass battery when plugged in? Is there is an option to choose wall power or battery?
Tje Ampersand’s output sound quality and sound signature matches the HiFiM8 V2 sound perfectly - but this Ampersand has gobs and gobs of power for all of my harder to drive headphones.
I’m trying to figure out if I have what I need to connect a desktop DAC with dual 3-pin DAC outputs into a single 4-pin balanced input, but I don’t think I do.
I can’t even imagine how much better it might sound if I feed my $4000 PS audio Perfectwave Mark II balanced desktop amplifier into it!
Thank you Larry. Coming from you this means a lot!I and my son HeadFanatic are both extremely impressed with it! All of our listening today was via the 4.4mm and 4-pin balanced outputs.
I listened to an Alpha version last year and 1prefer to forget about that one, LOL.
Leave it Warren to deliver the punch line!Wow, that's a fantastic set of initial impressions @HeadphoneAddict!
... It was like... like Dave grew a pair.
So I caught a typo in what you quoted from me that I’m not gonna go back and fix.Wow, that's a fantastic set of initial impressions @HeadphoneAddict!
Unfortunately I was out of the office for most of the day today, so I didn't get a chance to run it through its paces yet. However, I did torture it last night in some strange ways, and can verify some of what you mentioned.
Yup, pretty much. In fact, I discovered some unexpected synergy here.
I think that many people, upon hearing about the new LCD-5, expected it to sound exactly like an LCD-4, but way more resolving. I also think that a lot of those people were a little disappointed that it wasn't quite the above, in that the LCD-5 sounded much more mid-centric than they wanted it to be.
However, when I drove my LCD-5 with a HiFi-M8 + Ampersand pairing, and engaged the HiFi-M8's bass and treble boost, I was immediately rewarded with exactly that: a tonal signature that was reminiscent of an LCD-4, but with all the resolution of an LCD-5. I'm hesitant to post this in the LCD-5 thread just yet because it's: (a) just an initial impression thus far; and (b) I don't want to prematurely cause a riot that will surely result in a lot of extra moderation work that I don't have time for right now. But yeah, holy smokes, that was pretty amazing!
I just happened to have such an adapter, and I immediately decided to do something silly with it...
So, I fed it with the XLR line outs of a Chord Dave.
In my case, I did notice some coloration changes over that of the Dave's built-in headphone amp. Most notably, there was a non-trivial increase in bass slam. It was like... like Dave grew a pair.
So I caught a typo in what you quoted from me that I’m not gonna go back and fix.
But I also caught where I mistakenly said dual 3-pin into single 4-pin, and I actually meant to say dual 3-pin into 4.4 mm male, which is the input into the Ampersand.
I have adapters to let me use 4-pin XLR headphones on a 2.5 mm balanced or a 4.4 mm balanced headphone out jack. And I have cables to connect a 4-pin headphone jack to a 2.5mm input or 4.4mm input. And other to connect 2.5mm or 4.4mm headphones to a 4-pin XLR.
I just have nothing to connect a desktop DAC-only to a portable balanced amplifier’s input, except for a dual 3-pin to RSA cable to feed the RSA SR-71b and F-35 Lightning amps.
I certainly will not forget all the late night sessions we spent chatting on the phone and in messenger, to make sure that this product was perfect when completed. I have to tell you it’s a job well done and I can’t think of any way to make it better.Thank you Larry. Coming from you this means a lot!
Thank you also for your honest and relentless feedback about the earlier prototype. I had to redesign the whole thing pretty much from scratch to address your suggestions, and while I hated myself during that process, it came out much better in the end!
So I’m pretty sure that I have a dual 3-pin to four pin adapter, but I would need gender changers, because it lets me plug a headphone cable with dual 3-pins into a 4-pin headphone amp.Typos reflect frank and candor in the moment, and a lack of polish and dressing do they not?
Ah, yes, forget to mention a few things. In addition to the dual 3-pin to single 4-pin adapter (which I presume all of us old farts have, and yes probably some Kobiconn connectors too lol), I picked up a 4-pin XLR to Pentaconn adapter a little while back. This one. I also have a short Pentaconn-to-Pentaconn connector that I picked up from somewhere, but I can't remember where at the moment. That Frankenstein assortment was enough to get the job done. Though, at this point, I'm very tempted to ask Peter to DHC something specific for me.
I have to tell you it’s a job well done and I can’t think of any way to make it better.
thats good to know....so it can be kept plugged in 24/7 as a desktop unit without harming the battery.When running on wall power, the battery is smart -- it is out of the way, unless the charger is wimpy. Then, the battery kicks in to help during loud passages. Otherwise, it's not there. Just remains topped-up.
Could you confirm if this is Class-A like the website states. Is it completely Class-A. If that is so, that would be an incredible feat of achievement for a such a small device that too considering the amount of power this thing is outputting.
Pure Class A and battery powered don't mix, lol. Maybe it could be done, but either a massive battery pack would be needed ( making the device barely portable) or it would provide a very limited amount of amplification. I do have another portable amp that has a Pure Class A mode, but it can really only work with iems and easy to drive headphones. Even many mains-powered "Class A" amps really only stay in Class A for just a small percentage of their total rated output, then switch to AB as the load demands.I had a chance to chat with Michael Goodman yesterday, and he confirmed that the Ampersand is in fact Class AB.