Pico Slim: First Impression
I almost gave up on the Pico Slim due to the seemingly never ending delays. Then, one day, the Pico Slim appeared. The box…
Portable Amps
Audiotrak ImAmp
There has been an abundance of relatively small sized desktop headphone amplifiers, mainly from China, but the ImAmp caught my eye due to the…
Fiio E7 Portable DAC
After several low budget amplifiers (E1, E3, E5), Fiio now enters the market with a more serious E7 Portable DAC/Amp. It’s hard to find…
Doobooloo’s Portable Balanced Amp
Doobooloo designed and built his balanced portable Doobooloo amp way back in 2008. The thread is dated November 1st, 2008, much earlier than Ray…
RSA Protector and Sennheiser HD25-1
When I discovered how great the HD25-1 was when driven balanced, I quickly realized that even though the improvements were great, still it was…
RSA Protector: Source Issues
The Protector is roughly at the 50 hours mark. I’ve been quite happy with it now. Any grain and harshness that I noticed when…
RSA Protector: It’s Here!
At last. The eagerly awaited RSA Protector is here. Ray’s post on Head-Fi announcing the development of the RSA Protector was dated 12 December…
RSA Shadow, TTVJ Slim, or ALO Rx?
We have been talking about the three newly released amplifiers, but I have never really done a direct comparison between them. All three amplifiers…
TTVJ & TTVJ
When I received the TTVJ Slim, I was curious on how it would compare to the TTVJ Millet Hybrid Portable. Conveniently enough, Todd had…
ALO Rx High Gain
The ALO Rx turns out to have a gain switch hidden behind the front face plate. All you have to do is get a…
RSA Tiny Amps: The Shadow or The Mustang
After coming out with the RSA Shadow, people started asking question if it’s worth selling their P51 Mustangs to get the newer Shadow amp….
GoVibe Sharps
With the Sharps amplifier, GoVibe has successfully created a portable amp that manages to go head to head with the venerable Ray Samuels SR-71a….
ALO Rx Headphone Amplifier
The ALO Rx comes equipped with a lot of tech packed into a slim box roughly the size of an Ipod Classic. ALO not…
TTVJ Slim: First Impression
TTVJ named the new portable amp the “TTVJ Portable Headphone Amplifier”. Since TTVJ already have a hybrid tube portable amplifier, I thought that calling…
RSA Shadow After 7×24 Hours
In the first part of the review, I wrote that the RSA Shadow really sounded great out of the box. However, the designer, Ray…