Less Blockage, More Music: Burson Soloist
Disclaimer: Burson is a sponsor of Headfonia. I received the Burson Soloist amplifier directly from Burson for the purpose of this review and unlike…
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Violectric V200: The German Solid State
Time sure does fly… I reviewed the V100 in November of last year and I absolutely loved it. The V200’s little brother turned out…
Bottlehead Crack: OTL Addiction
This is a review of the Bottlehead Crack OTL tube headphone amplifier. Writing a review after Mike’s interesting and complete 2 page impressions…
NwAvGuy’s Objective 2 by JDSLabs and Epiphany Acoustics
“The Objective 2 is an open source amplifier designed with emphasis on benchmark performance and low cost”, that’s how the O2 is described by…
20-In-1: GoVibe Multi-Amp
Ten amps packed into one gigantic amp that measures 98.5cm X 13cm x 5cm! Govibe has really done it this time with the Govibe…
TrendsAudio PA-10 SE: A Hybrid Amp Design
A while back TrendsAudio posted their TrendsAudio PA-10 SE headphone amp on our wall. Curious as I was I asked for a sample in…
The Minute 45 Amplifier by SAC Thailand
Minute’s 45 amplifier comes from SAC Thailand, a small boutique audio manufacturer based in Thailand, famous for making world-class output transformers and transformer based…
The Upgrade: Fiio E17 “Alpen”
As me and Lieven were talking at the end of 2011, we both agreed that the Fiio E10 was the biggest surprise of the…
Voltage Monster: Ray Samuels Dark Star
The way Ray describes the Dark Star on his website is pretty menacing: In SE output it can easily swing close to 80 volts…
True Beauty: WooAudio WA5 Headphone Amplifier
Guys, this is the famous, 300B-based, gigantic overkill, wallet-squashing, hell of a tube amp from WooAudio. Yep, the grand daddy of headphone amplifiers. As…
Violectric V100: German Pro-Audio Quality by LakePeople
The Violectric V100 is an A/B class amp with excellent German build quality. It’s sturdy, basic and has a very detailed finish. You can…
The Next Step: Burson HA-160DS
Perhaps it’s the fact that I have no need of a pre-amp. Perhaps it’s the smaller footprint. Perhaps it’s the price tag — almost…
Hifiman Express: HM-101
Suddenly everybody seems to be very into entry level USB DACs. After Fiio and Ibasso, next comes another USB DAC from yet another Chinese…
No Music: Audio Gd NFB-12
I have mixed feelings about this entry level DAC/Amp box from Audio-Gd. In contrast to the Ref 7.1 flagship model which I absolutely love,…
Little Apex: The Butte
Having associated the Apex brand with high end amplifiers priced in the thousands of dollars region, most people me included are probably not going…