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…
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The Usual Suspects: 12 Portable Amps Compared
More and more I’m getting questions from people who are looking to purchase a portable amplifier and are confused over the choices available in…
RSA-SR71B First Impression
The SR-71B takes the concept of portable balanced amplification that was first introduced in the Protector and upped it even more. Reading the product…
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…
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….
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…
RSA Shadow: Out of the Box
The RSA Shadow is one of the most highly anticipated amplifier to be released to the headphone community. It all started back in May,…
RSA SR-71a
Ray Samuels managed to create one hell of a portable amp in the RSA SR-71a. Plugged in to the extremely revealing, legendary Apuresound recabled…