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…
Amps
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…
The SmartVektor™ Digizoid Zo
The SmartVektor Digizoid Zo is one of the more interesting devices we’ve seen in a while. More than just another portable amplifier released to…
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…
Amplifier For The Masses: The Fiio E6
The smooth finish on the Fiio E6 is a testament to how far Fiio’s production capability has grown. This is not something that a…
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…
JustAudio µHA-120: Size Doesn’t Equal Quality! – update with AHA-120
A few months ago we reviewed JustAudio’s AHA-120 amplifier and we found it was a great amp. Now it’s time to review its little…
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,…
Fiio E7, Meet Your Rival: The Ibasso D-Zero
It’s pretty amazing how easy it is to get quality gear these days. Just recently I was raving about the $80 Fiio E10 DAC/Amp,…
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…
The Latest Must Have: The Fiio E10 USB DAC/Amp -updated-
EDIT 25/09/2014: The New E10K has replaced the E10 from this review: Go here: https://www.headfonia.com/fiio-e10k-classic-reborn/ ———————- The E10 was very easy to like from…
The Sweet Sound of Tube: The ALO Continental Amplifier
I’ve spent a few weeks now with the Continental, and I can tell you outright that it is perhaps the best sounding portable amplifier…