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Headphone Amplifier

Audio recordings are made to be listened to via speakers. When played back on headphones, the sound feels limited to being ‘inside your head’. It does not have the spaciousness it was meant to have.

Behind XBass is our active EQ circuit which meets a common gripe with headphones head-on, a lack of bass.

Open-back headphones in particular, let all frequencies (especially those precious bass frequencies that the drivers generate so little of) leak freely out of the back instead of trapping and redirecting them back to your ears.

XBass equalisation is a much more elegant solution to bass correction than seen elsewhere. It consists of active and passive components and its frequency response curve corrects their low-end response problems with precision.

• Inputs: 4.4mm Pentacon BAL:4.0V nominal @ 0dBFS, 24 kOhm Zin, RCA L/R Socket SE: 2.0V nominal @ 0dBFS, 1 MegOhm Zin, 3.5mm Jack SE: 1.0V nominal @ 0dBFS, 1 MegOhm Zin
• Max Output: Balanced >15.1V/385 mW (@ 600 Ohm), >11.0V/1890 mW (@ 64 Ohm), S-E: >7.6V/196 mW (@ 300 Ohm), >7.2V/1600 mW (@ 32 Ohm)
• Output Impedance (HP): BAL: <2 Ohms, SE: <1 Ohm
• Zout: Line out: <200 Ohms
• THD+N: Balanced: < 0.0007% (4V out, 600 Ohm, 1kHz), S-E: <0.006% (@ 100 mW/1.27V 16 Ohm)
• SNR: Balanced: >120dBA (@ 15.2V), S-E: >118dBA (@ 7.6V)
• Max. Input: Balanced: 7.4V RMS, RCA: 3.8V RMS, 3.5mm: 1.92V RMS
• Gain: 0dB, 6dB, 12dB and 18dB
• Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz (+0dB/-0.03dB)
• Power consumption: No Signal ~5W, Max Signal ~13W
• Input voltage: DC 5V/2.4A, AC 100 -240V 50/60Hz