Buffalo, NY, November 26, 2021 — Bluebird Music, distributor of high-performance audio products since 2000, is pleased to announce the availability of the Q...
How much difference can a headphone amp make to your listening? Should it be the proverbial ‘straight wire with gain’, or should it shape the sound and add something positive to it?
If you are searching for a way to make the music from your smartphone/DAP sound better, or if you need to drive some less efficient headphones, iFi Audio submits the xDSD portable DAC/Amp for your consideration. It looks to be an impressive little beast that is barely bigger than a deck of cards.
Mytek has introduced their new Liberty DAC and headphone amplifier. This is the first of the Liberty products from Mytek that are intended to be "one-use, but done very well" components.
With a whopping 8 watts per channel in balanced mode, balanced or unbalanced headphone connections and optional DAC, the MOON by Simaudio Neo 430HA headphone amplifier sits at the top of a crowded mountain.
Pass Labs’ HPA-1 Headphone Amplifier is capable of delivering full-range dynamics across the entire frequency range, even when driving headphones that present difficult loads in terms...
Audeze, maker of award-winning planar magnetic headphones, is excited to offer The King Headphone Amp on Indiegogo at an astonishing discount for 30 days...
The ALO Studio Six is a Class A single-ended triode circuit design with zero feedback. It delivers a warm and rich tone via its full vacuum tube amplification. It isn't cheap but it delivers a lot of quality tube power...
The AURALiC TAURUS MKII uses their proprietary ORFEO Classs-A output modules to deliver amazing sound to high-end headphones. Enjoy incredible transparency and tonal quality via either the standard or balanced output of the TAURUS MKII. Easily one of the best headphone amps on the market and a reference quality pairing with the HiFiMAN HE-6 planar magnetic headphones.
I think it's fair to refer to the Benchmark DAC2 HGC as a DAC since that is its official title, or a headphone amplifier but the owner's manual refers to it as a 'Reference Stereo Preamplifier'. Whatever you call it, this little box does a lot. I reviewed it mostly as a DAC but tried out the preamp and headphone functions as well.