HeadRoom Micro Amp

Want to bring your music listening experience to a new level? Simply put a Micro Amp between your music source and favorite headphones and let the beautiful music come flooding in. Designed to bring fine audio electronics into in an affordable & space-saving amp, the Micro 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 out our HeadRoom Portable Micro Amp.)

Features

Sure it sounds great, but the HeadRoom Micro Amp is also an all-singing, all-dancing, fully-featured headphone amp/pre-amp. The Micro Amp uses the same class-A biased electronics and discrete component Jung Diamond buffer-based output amplifier electronics of our Desktop Amp, but uses smaller 1/8" (3mm) connectors and smaller controls to fit it all into this tiny package. This is a DC coupled amp (no caps in the signal path). It has a headphone jack on the front, but it also has a pre-amp jack on the rear panel that you can use as a volume-controlled audio source for a power amp or your self-powered speakers.

It has two line inputs that are switch selectable from the front panel so you can easily switch between sources (an iPod and a computer, for example); a gain control switch allows you to adjust the volume range to easily control headphones of a variety of impedances and efficiencies; and, of course, our famous HeadRoom Crossfeed circuit that improves the audio image on headphones very subtly and 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 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) 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 .5 Mtr Musicable cable will work, or 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.