HeadRoom Desktop Balanced Package with Sennheiser HD650
The HeadRoom Balanced Desktop amp was a fun innovation for us. Finally, we could offer advanced balanced-drive sound quality in a small amp while maintaining the terrifically immersive soundstaging and ultra-precise musical detail resolution previously found solely with our big upscale Balanced Home and Balanced Max amps. Although the differences between single-ended versus balanced-drive headphone systems are hard to quantify, safe to say even the noobiest of listeners will easily distinguish a much more expressive, dynamic, and finely nuanced tonal presentation with a life-like 'depth' and a spacious sonic clarity normal headphones can only hint at. After attending audio events where we set up side-by-side rigs using identical sources -- one balanced, one unbalanced -- it became abundantly clear which was the listener favorite; everyone's eyes saucered as they heard the balanced system even after being blown away moments earlier by the same rig in unbalanced mode. As always, the proof is in the (sonic) pudding so this HeadRoom combo package is perfectly tailored to deliver high-end headphone sound equivalent to a speaker-based stereo easily costing 5 times as much -- but without occupying an entire wall of your favorite room. And, as always, our standard HeadRoom 30-day 'no-questions-asked' return policy guarantees you'll like what you hear.
This listener-ready HeadRoom package contains the Balanced Desktop amp with the Class-A 'Home' electronics module option, the also 'Class-A' constant-current sourced 'Home' DAC upgrade, the custom-built HeadRoom 24-position stepped attenuator volume control, and the international auto-switching Astrodyne power supply. Included are Sennheiser HD-650 headphones which we feel respond amazingly well to balanced-drive with a very musical-sounding instrumental clarity and a transparent, lively tonal presentation not heard in other headphones. We also provide our new HeadRoom-engineered Balanced Stock Sennheiser HD650 cable which allows the headphones to be used in either single-ended or balanced-drive as needed. Digital optical and USB interconnect cables for DAC use complete the Balanced Desktop package... Now you can listen to your audiophile music or watch home theatre late at night without worrying about disturbing the neighbors or waking the kids. It's more pure sonic bliss per square inch than should rightfully be legal.
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Value Rating:
5.0 of 5
Specifications
Desktop Line
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6moons.com Frederic Beudot april 07
