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Post by tim1750 on Mar 22, 2020 10:37:38 GMT
Hi Everyone ,i'm now thinking about changing my headphone amp it's a Capella from Stan Beresford it's not bad but looking for better under £200 am I asking to much ?. is there anything you could recommend ?
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Post by petea on Mar 22, 2020 10:48:56 GMT
I have a Teddy Pardo HPA, but that was more than that I'm afraid and I'm not sure he makes them any more. It is rather good. Max built one into the Townshend Engima pre-amplifier and that is very good, but way out of range: it is certainly more reliable than the pre-amp itself.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 22, 2020 10:57:12 GMT
There may be something Chinese, say SMSL but difficult to beat a Beresford at that price
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Post by jandl100 on Mar 22, 2020 16:37:12 GMT
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Post by tim1750 on Mar 22, 2020 18:04:02 GMT
Thank you all for your help.
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Post by mikeyb on Mar 22, 2020 23:20:13 GMT
I had one of these many moons ago and I preferred it to my Graham Slee Novo with my Senn 650’s |
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Post by jandl100 on Mar 23, 2020 7:05:50 GMT
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Post by Firebottle on Mar 23, 2020 7:53:47 GMT
Her is what I said about it (pics lost to tinypic): I was asked for a recommendation for a headphone amplifier but I don't have much experience of these. I took a quick look on fleabay and this came up as the cheapest on there, so I though I would give it a punt and see what's what. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-HIFI...72.m2749.l2649This was from a UK stock, from China you can get it 35p cheaper The amplifier uses an LP-2020A integrated circuit, this is a class D chip feeding the rear speaker outputs but interestingly there are separate analogue outputs to the front headphone socket. It's a tiny little thing As usual the power LED is rather overdriven, given that modern LEDs are super efficient, the current was about 8mA providing a blinding light. With a quick swap out of the LED series resistor from 1.5K to 56K the light level was substantially reduced. Given the small size you only get a 3.5mm input socket and a block connector for the speakers. The class D power amp switches at 480KHz, the standing supply current is 48mA (8mA to the LED) rising to less than 200mA for a very good domestic volume. The instruction specify a 2A supply but imo that isn't needed. When the headphones are plugged in the switching power amp is cut off, which is a good thing and the standing current drops to 15mA (7mA with LED mod) so very suitable for battery operation as a headphone amplifier. The headphone output certainly goes loud and stays clean. All my headphones are 64 ohms impedance so I can't comment on how well it would drive high impedance phones. Cheap as chips and excellent performance, apart from the blinding LED Postscript. Just tried it at 9V supply and it works no problem. It doesn't work at 5V supply. |
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Post by tim1750 on Mar 23, 2020 9:54:38 GMT
Thank you Jerry and Firebottle for you help i'll look into these.
I tried the link you posted Firebottle but it looks like the amp was taken down mate.
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Post by jandl100 on Mar 23, 2020 10:06:00 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 23, 2020 15:09:46 GMT
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Post by jandl100 on Mar 23, 2020 16:07:43 GMT
... hmm, I had a Lehmann Black Cube Linear amp rrp £750 last year. It was Ok, didn't keep it long -- tbh I am getting a lot more enjoyment out of the £13 Lepa amp! More gutsy, more interesting. Or maybe I'm just amazed that anything costing £13 can be decent!  |
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 23, 2020 16:35:32 GMT
You're the man Jerry when it comes to headphones!
For 13 quid how can you possibly go wrong to see just how good it is. That's the interesting development of recent years - proper audiophile gear for a fraction of the cost of yesteryear .
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Post by kirk on Mar 23, 2020 19:18:44 GMT
if you can stretch your budget, I've seen HeadAmp Gilmore Lite 2s go for around 300 quid in Europe.
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