Amps & DACs

Want to bring your personal music listening experience to an entirely new level of sound quality? Simply put a Micro Amp between your music source and your favorite headphones and let the beautiful music flood in. Designed to bring fine audiophile electronics into in an affordable space-saving little amp, the HeadRoom Micro Amp is ready to inhabit any tiny nook on your desktop, nightstand, or any other listening place where you have access to AC power. (For battery-powered mobile listening, please check our HeadRoom Portable Micro Amp.)

Features

Sure, it sounds great driving headphones to glorious heights of musical detail and accuracy, but the HeadRoom Micro Amp is also an 'all-singing, all-dancing' fully-featured headphone amp plus pre-amp. The Micro employs deeply 'Class A'-biased electronics and a discrete-component Walter Jung 'Diamond Buffer'-based amplifier output just as found in our pricier Desktop Amp, but uses 'mini' 1/8" (3.5mm) connectors and smaller controls to fit into these tiny dimensions. The HeadRoom Micro Amp is a true Class-A, DC-coupled amp (no capacitors in the signal path) so you know the sound will drive even the most power-hungry audiophile headphones effortlessly and with total precision. The HeadRoom Micro Amp provides an awesome 3.5mm headphone jack on the front, but it also has a similar 'pre-amp' jack on the rear panel that can double as a volume-controlled input into a power amp, computer speakers on your desktop or to your powered bookshelf speakers. The HeadRoom Micro Amp also features two separate 3.5mm line inputs that are selectable from the front panel for easy switching between your sources (an iPod and a computer, for example). Front panel Gain control switch allows you to adjust the volume ranges to easily control headphones of any impedance and efficiency rating. And, of course, our famous HeadRoom Crossfeed circuit centers the audio image on headphones very subtly and quite carefully.

Build

The Micro is enclosed in an amazingly sturdy and lustrous black anodized aluminum enclosure with urethane bezels (the rubber piece around the front and back panel). The bezels handily act as bumpers protecting the amp, and they allow you to securely stack the Micro Amp and the Micro DAC units together. All HeadRoom Micro Amps are hand-built in Montana, USA.

Accessories

An external AC power-supply 'brick' comes included with the HeadRoom Micro Amp. An upgraded international-use Astrodyne Power Supply is optionally available for audiophiles wanting to fully maximize the audio performance of the Micro Amp. The Astrodyne works anywhere on the planet you can find an outlet [from 100V ~ 240V] so it makes a great accessory for frequent travelers. Plus, the Astrodyne also improves upon the sound quality when compared to the 'stock' power supply.

*The Micro Amp does NOT include any interconnect cabling. To hook up your Micro Amp to a portable audio player, you will need a mini 1/8"-to-1/8" (3.5mm) interconenct cable. We recommend the Cardas 6 inch or 12 inch mini to mini cables. For longer runs, we suggest the Cardas 1 meter or 2 meter versions. If you are using an audio source with RCA outputs, the Straightwire 0.5 meter MusiCable cable will work great, or simply browse all of our cables.

Measurements

The Micro Amp is 1.5" (3.8cm) high, 3.5" (9 cm) wide, and 4.5"(11.5cm)long. It weighs only 8.8oz (250 grams). The HeadRoom Micro Amp is hand-built in Bozeman Montana USA.

Excellent
Posted by Chang He from San Antonio on 2011-09-30

Recommend Product: Yes

I bought this to drive soem AKG 702s bought at the same time. Stunning overall, my headphone listening is now higher quality than my speaker system.

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Size doesn't matter
Posted by Goomphy from Michigan on 2011-07-28

Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: Clean, wonderful, powerful, distortion free.
Cons: None

I went from an old surround sound Pioneer amp intended to power speakers, with a marginally good headphone amp to this. What a treat. So much more definition and clarity. Who can say what made more difference? Was it the fact that I replaced a terribly outdated amp, or the fact I stepped up from HD555s to HD650s? Personally, I don't really care. What I have sounds excellent and my listening experience is outstanding now. Amazingly better than what I had before, which was already quite good.

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(:>)
Posted by Jack's naim from Canada on 2011-06-17

Recommend Product: Yes
Pros: SOUND FOR THE $$$
Cons: ZERO

Not the last word in information retrieval but super FUN never the less. At this price, complaining about short coming to ultimate nirvana is a waist of time. Get's the fundamentals of music right with KILLER VALUE and RELIABILITY. Worthy of a great source

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