At the prestigious High-End Munich event, iFi has taken the audio world by storm with the official unveiling of its latest masterpiece, the iCan Phantom. Building upon the resounding success of its flagship iCan Pro Signature model, the iFi iCan Amp is a high-end pure-analog headphone amplifier with enhanced hardware tuning, specifically designed to excel with electrostatic headphones. The iFi …

Astell & Kern’s AK PA10 is the best portable headphone amplifier designed for audiophiles. The AK PA10 audiophile portable headphone amp is designed to enhance the audio quality of your music, by providing a powerful and clean amplification to your headphones. The AK PA10 is a class A amp with exclusive TERATON ALPHA technology, which is an AK Ultimate Sound …

FiiO has introduced the Q7 USB-DAC/amp model with powerful hardware including the ESS ES9038PRO DAC chip and THX AAA 788+ amplifier technology. The Headphone Amplifier with Bluetooth offers a range of features and functionality for audiophiles on the go. One of the standout features of the Q7 is its ability to play a variety of audio formats, including DSD, APE, …

iFi Audio introduced the GO blu portable wireless DAC amp/headphones amplifier with a small size and a weight of only 26g that is easy to bring anywhere. The Bluetooth amplifier connects to iOS and Android devices, is compatible with the Bluetooth HD codec standard for high transmission quality, and has a long battery life of up to 10 hours of …

We recently talked about a compact, but still stationary DAC / headphones amplifier iFi Zen DAC V2 (REVIEW) from Abbington Music Research (aka AMR). The device turned out to be very interesting, and therefore a natural question immediately arose: is it even possible, but in a portable version and stand-alone? Of course, you can: at the time of writing the …

The Astell & Kern PEE51 portable DAC cable is now available in the US. The product is directly derived from the popular Hi-Res audio players, such as the KANN ALPHA. The USB Type-C volume control headphone amplifier is built in aluminum and has the appearance of a small dongle that ends at one end with a USB-C connector and the …

iFi Audio has introduced the latest professional Headphone Amplifier named NEO iDSD. This is the first Desktop DAC/Amp product line of the company launched with many technologies from the top Pro iDSD series. iFi NEO iDSD is a new generation Balanced DAC / Preamp / Headphone Amp. The product will have ports that fully connect users’ needs such as USB, Coaxial, Optical, …

The most important part of every audio product review is how it sounds. For objective evaluation, we held this FiiO Headphone Amplifier in our hands for more than a hundred hours. In this FiiO Q5s review, we will use the two headphones: Sony IER-M7, and MDR-1AM2, which has both single-ended 3.5mm and balanced 4.4mm ports in addition to Focal Clear. …

Amazon UK has announced the availability of the Musical Fidelity LX2 series phono amp and headphone amplifier. There are two products: the LX2-LPS phono amp and the LX2-HPA headphone amplifier. Both Musical Fidelity LX2 series products are characterized by compact dimensions, designed to ensure easy accommodation even in confined spaces. Power can be supplied via the EPS linear power supply …

McIntosh has entered the market of digital-to-analog converters – DAC, portable headphone amplifiers. The newly announced DAC is called McIntosh MHA50 and has a typical McIntosh design. The housing is made of aluminum with a glass in front. To interact, we have a touch-sensitive knob that adjusts volume control and power on / off. The measurements are 7 x 15.5 …