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Last week Beyerdynamic lifted the lid on its latest wireless headphones, the Aventho 100. Featuring a distinctly 70s design, ...
The HDV 820 is a versatile box of tricks (it combines a headphone amp, DAC and preamp) to use with a suitable pair of ...
According to the esteemed turntable maker, it's "one of the most effective pound-for-pound hi-fi upgrades around." ...
There's a new 32-bit, 16-core XMOS chip for USB data and a high-performance driver for Windows; other platforms don't require a driver. And there's Bluetooth 5.1 with LDAC and aptX Adaptive up to ...
The new Head Box E a micro-sized headphone amplifier that can drive even the most demanding pair of headphones. It costs less ...
Musical Fidelity's M1 HPA headphone amp sounds sweet and sports a USB input and onboard digital-to-analog converter. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end ...
Valve or Solid State. Like the Pro iCAN before it, the iCAN Phantom sports several unique features that set it apart from other headphone amps. One such facility is the incorporation of two input ...
As mentioned, the input stage for this build is simply a dual-gang 10 k log pot, creating a variable pad on the input signal. I added a pair of 0.01 μF capacitors between the inputs and ground to ...
EarthQuaker Devices has launched an analogue guitar amp simulator that can be used as a preamp on your pedalboard, or as a headphone amplifier for silent practice, and the best part? It’s so simple to ...
As a USB DAC and headphone amp combo designed for those with high-quality music collections on their computers, the rPac is quite small and shouldn't really stand out on your desktop.
The first switch acts as the power switch and puts the A90 in either pre-amp mode or headphone amplifier mode depending on position. The second switch selects either XLR or RCA inputs, while the third ...
When using the digital input, the Icon-2’s DAC can decode high-resolution audio up to 24-bit, 96-kHz, and a company representative told me the Class D amplifier provides up to 18 watts per ...