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Abyss Diana Phi

$4395


The DIANA headphones were launched in early 2018 as a luxury line touted as the world’s thinnest boutique headphone. It has since changed longstanding perceptions of headphone physics by easily comparing to and in many cases besting the highest performance headphones. World-class sound in a compact portable package.

ABYSS has since worked toward furthering this success, producing this second higher performance Phi version that’s ‘bigger on the inside’ by incorporating the Phi planar speakers from their flagship AB-1266 Phi CC, the headphone on the tip of any connoisseur’s tongue when asked; ‘What’s the best’?

The new DIANA Phi headphone has world-class dynamics, resolution, and refinement to sound never before heard in such a compact package. As with any ABYSS, she’s quite capable of playing any genre of music to an extreme level of enjoyment, limited only by the electronics and recording. The goosebump inducing ‘you are there’ sound is to die for.

'Bigger on the Inside' best describes her huge sound, bass depth and speed second only to her big brother, wide soundstage with impeccable tonal balance, voices so real you feel they are with you. Diana Phi plays her heart out for you every time you wear her.


Machined, finished, and carefully hand assembled in New York, USA

The thinnest boutique headphone in the world sculpted from aircraft grade aluminum for incredible strength

Sporty leathers and soft Alcantara®

High-tech ceramic finish has her looking good

Hand-carved extra-wide low profile ear pads with minimal clamping force offer extreme comfort for any head shape

Large 63 mm patent pending Phi planar drivers with ultra-low mass diaphragm for extremely fast bass impact and subtle lifelike details to music

EMotion headband magnetically adjusts and contours your head for a comfortable fit

Comes in a Titanium Gray color. Custom colors available

USA made dual zipper canvas carry case with leather accents and accessory pockets for easy travel

Weight 350 grams

Impedance 32 ohms

Sensitivity 91 dB/mw

Includes cable by JPS Labs, length 1.5 meter/5 FT, with choice of 3.5 mm, 2.5 mm balanced, 4 pin XLR or 4.4 mm balanced plug (Additional cables may be purchased separately)

KuraDa KD-P1 Headphone

$4500


53 mm driver unit designed exclusively

We developed a new driver unit to realize sufficient low frequency while it is fully open. Adopting a neodymium magnet with strong magnetic energy. By thinning the thickness of the diaphragm until durability permits it, it has become possible to express precise sound accurately.


Full Open Structure without housing adopts a fully open housing that does not cause excessive resonance or resonance. All the main parts of the housing are cut out from the chunk of A 7075 (Ultra duralumin) and produced. All movable parts are supported by stainless steel bearings, eliminate noise and distortion, and move smoothly.

It is designed not only from the appearance impact, but also on the research, so as to obtain the best sound quality from various perspectives such as housing rigidity, driver unit mounting angle, distance to the ear, installation area of ​​the ear pad, and so on.


Driver unit - 53 mm Dynamic type

Sensitivity - 96 dB

Impedance - 42 Ω

Frequency - 20 - 20,000 Hz

Weight - 550 g (not including code)

Cable specification - 3.0 m OFC detachable type

RAAL-requisite SR1a Earfield monitor

$3500


The SR1a by RAAL-requisite is the world's first Earfield™ Monitor. Experience mixing, mastering, and home listening with unparalleled accuracy and realism in a soundfield devoid of room acoustics and comb-filtering caused by work surface reflections. Earfield™ technology delivers unheard of program accuracy and a speaker-like soundfield experience.

The SR1a is the world’s first True-Ribbon™ headphone. Highly specialized ribbon drivers were developed that reproduce 30Hz to 30kHz bandwidth in order to eliminate the need for sealed chambered bass and allow for open air baffles (both front and back) for a true full-frequency soundfield.

Professional engineers report that SR1a Earfield Monitors™ reveal more detail and accuracy than even their finest traditional studio monitors or heaphones. Helping to achieve high-quality, transferable mix results in non-traditional environments. The accuracy, musicality and portability of the SR1a frees the engineer to work whenever, and wherever they choose.

Weighing in at only 425 grams (15 ounces). Unlike standard headphones who’s weight and heat create listener discomfort over time. The SR1a Earfield™ design eliminates heat buildup on the ears providing a cool, natural airflow. Your ears will also appreciate the complete absence of sound pressure against the eardrums caused by traditional sealed can designs. SR1a headphones can be worn comfortably for many hours at any listening level.

The SR1a features; carbon fiber baffles, stainless spring steel headband, aluminum ribbon drivers, plush memory foam bars, and lambskin leather (non-leather option available). Every SR1a is expertly handmade, in Serbia, by the skilled European craftspeople who build world-renowned RAAL ribbon tweeters.

Lector ZUM-H hybrid headphone amplifier

All new design for this outstanding hybrid headphone amplifier. Tube triode input and lateral mosfet output buffer, all circuits are on pure class A.

By selector user can choice the double output power, hi power or low power: double power output for low-efficiency headphones and hi-efficiency headphones.

Tube circuit is around on our exclusive optical bias cathode control.

Four independent power supply section for ultra low noise.

All circuits from input to output are in pure class A.

The Lector ZUM-H can drive any type of headphones from low impedance to high impedance. Hi quality components selection and great value capacitance reservoir for mosfet output.


Optional and convenience:

Remote control handset for volume control (series)
Tube triode driver as 12BH7A (series)
5 line inputs selection (series)
2 line direct output line monitor (series)
1 line output under volume control, line input passive output (series)
1 output power headphones connector as standard 6.3 mm
Tube triode driver alternative as ECC-802S (optional)
Lateral panels as wood (cherry) or black plexy (optional)
Spikes feet x 3 pcs (optional)
Ac Mains: 240 110 100 Vac 50/60 Hz 70 V/A
Dimensions: 400 (L) / 440 (L with panels) x 300 (D) x 85 (H) mm
Weight: 7 Kg net

Cypher Labs Prautes headphone amplifier

Designed by Coffman Labs and produced in collaboration with Cypher Labs, the Prautes is a limited edition analog headphone amplifier.  Combining vintage tubes, military technology, and hand made American components, we’ve sought to unlock an unsurpassed listening experience for the audio customer at an affordable and inclusive price.

Primarily intended for headphone use, the Prautes drives a wide range of headphone types and provides for impedance matching. It includes a very subtle bass boost feature, a line-out stage, and is also capable of powering small speakers. The controls are optimized for headphone output to offer revealing clarity, presence and an expansive soundstage—presenting your music with subtlety, image, accurate detail, and the excitement of live experience. The result is a legacy piece that is timeless and enduring.

The Prautes uses a 12AU7 tube gain stage to drive a pair of 50L6 or 25L6 tubes (note in product serial number) in push-pull mode. This provides for more power than needed for almost all headphones—and can drive high efficiency speakers with about 2 watts. Five separate output impedance settings are provided to match listening equipment, including 8 ohm speakers, standard headphones, high impedance headphones and In-Ear-Monitors.


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Schiit Lyr 3

To improve on Lyr 2, we had to completely reinvent the amp, introduce two new technologies, and make it modular. Yes, that’s right. Not only is the new Lyr 3 a big sonic upgrade, it can be configured with the DAC or phono preamp of your choice—just like Jotunheim.

Power and Finesse in One
Want to run IEMs? Sure. Need power for your HE-6? Sure. If this means nothing to you, just be confident that you can plug any headphone into Lyr 3 and get great sound. With full power delivered from the standard ¼” jack, you don’t need balanced headphones to take full advantage of Lyr 3.

Unparalleled Flexibility
Select from the internal card or rear-panel analog input, and pick high or low gain with convenient front switches. Connect the preamp output to your powered monitors for a complete desktop system—or use it as a front end to your speaker power amplifier. Lyr 3 provides all the flexibility you need.

Single Tube, Two Complementary Technologies
Now, you can enjoy a serious tube amp—that only requires a single tube. Our Coherence™ hybrid topology makes the most out of the supplied NOS 6N8S tube, and also works with all NOS and new-production 6SN7 tube types. What’s more, Lyr 3 introduces Continuity™—a constant transconductance output stage which provides superior performance.

Configure Now, Ready For the Future
Select from two different DAC modules, a phono input module, or no module at all to tailor Lyr 3 exactly to your needs. Modular design means Lyr 3 won’t be dumpster-fodder when technology changes—just swap a card!

Multibit DAC Module. Choose the optional Multibit DAC Module to get Schiit’s unique digital filter and true multibit DAC architecture, as used in Modi Multibit and Bifrost Multibit, for $200.

AK4490 DAC Module. Or choose the more affordable AK4490 G2 DAC module for a world-class delta-sigma DAC for only $100.

MM Phono Input Module. Or, choose the MM phono input module, for 42dB of gain and passive RIAA, for great phono sound, at only $100.
Made in USA. Really.

By “made in USA,” we mean made in USA. The vast majority of the total production cost of Lyr 3—chassis, boards, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the US.

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Trafomatic Primavera heaphone amplifier

Single ended DHT amplifier
Output tubes: Svetlana 811.10
Drive tubes: 6S45P
Output impedances: 25 , 50 , 100 , 300 and 600 ohms
Output power: 10W/50 Ohms

Hifiman Shangri-La Jr

$8000

MYSPHERE 3.1

€3500 - €4500


MYSPHERE 3.1 has been developed by LB-acoustics Messgeräte GmbH applying their core competences in sound and vibration measurement technology.

Meeting the requirements of the audiophile community all measurements are carried out according to the latest technical standards. This includes simple sound measurement as well as mechanical vibrations and psychoacoustic tests. But the final examination is made by the human ears of our test persons, which significantly influences the whole design concept.

An ultra light coil and a glass foam membrane with a cobweb structure allow fastest impulse reproduction. All dispensable air volumes like tight channels, slots, holes etc. are largely avoided in order to reduce additional acoustic masses.

Supported by the open design, the drivers are kind of levitating over the ear. The open front cushion enables sound to flow from one side to the other and vice versa. This creates an unprecedented binaural effect and great spatiality.

On both sides of the moving membrane the spaces are completely vented. No acoustic volumes hamper the membrane in its movement and the front cushion is acoustically open. This yields an unsuspected sense of space.

A light metal frame transmits the force from the soft cushions to the head to achieve very small specific surface pressure. Sensitive areas of the head are bypassed resulting in a well-fixed headband carrying the hovering drivers.

All cushions are attached by magnets and can be removed manually without tools.

Additionally, both sides of the earphone can be removed without tools to facilitate the transportability and service.

Since no human head is really symmetric, all adjustments of angle and height have been accomplished without mechanical lock-in positions. A fine scaling allows for easy retrieval of personal settings.


MYSPHERE 3.1 can be ordered with following cables which are built as described:

Single threads 8 x 0.14 mm² of oxygen-free monocrystalline copper (OFC)

Electrical specifications: 0.1 Ohm/m, 0.4 nF/m

Black tear-proof sleeve textile according to MIL standard, overall diameter 3.6 mm

Other cable types are available on request


Specs:

Style levitate next to the ears, fully open

Sensitivity 96 dB / 1 mW RMS = 115 dB SPL/V eff. (at Ear-Drum Reference Point)

Maximum input power 60 mW

Rated Impedance 15 Ohms

Transducer type dynamic

Transducer size 40 x 40 mm

Diaphragm squared, glass-foam enforced

Membrane excursion 4 mm

Frequency response 20 Hz – 40 kHz (-10 dB)

Magnetic structure radial, fully vented

Magnet type Neodymium N52

Magnet density 1.5 T

Weight approx. 330 g (without cables)

Octave V16 headphone amplifier

€8500

HifiMan Susvara Headphones

EF1000 :

Input Stage : Vacuum Tube SRPP Circuit
Headphone Output for 35Ω Load : 20w. pure Class A
Amplifier Output for 8Ω Load : 50w. pure Class A, 110w. Class A/B
SNR (A weight) : 108dB
Dynamic Range : 111dB

Weight :
Main Unit : 13.45 kg (29.65lb)
Power Supply : 11.2 kg (24.69lb)

Dimensions :
Main Unit : L460x280x170 mm3 (18.11" x 11.02" x 6.69")
Power Supply : L360x 200x170 mm3 (14.17" x 7.87" x 6.69")


Susvara - $6000
Susvara + EF 1000 - $18000

Sennheiser new headphone

Woo Audio WA33 Fully Balanced Headphone Amplifier

$8000


Technical Specifications:

Four 2A3 power tubes in matched quad
Four 6C45 driver tubes in matched quad
One 5U4G rectifier tubes

Voltage: AC 110/220V, 50/60 Hz


Headphone Amplifier Specifications:

Headphones impedance : 8—600 Ohms
Signal/Noise: >= 95 dB


Standard Features:

Fully Balanced Direct-Heated Triode, Class A, Output-transformer design
Point-to-Point wiring
User selectable High or Low IMPEDANCE
User selectable High or Low LEVEL headphone output

Hifiman Shangri-La headphone amplifier

$50000

TRON headphone amplifier

Two versions:

Standard - £3000
Reference - £5000

MSB Select Headphone Amplifier

$37950


Two Stax style Outputs

Balanced Analog Input and Output

Equalization Module for optimization

Volume and Balance integrated with DAC

Unique Design - DAC Power directly coupled to output


An Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier and DAC for the Serious Listener

MSB is pleased to introduce the new SELECT Electrostatic Headphone Amplifier. As a matched companion to the MSB SELECT DAC II, the combination results in the highest performance, most expensive headphone system in the world. For the very first time in history, the output of a discrete Ladder DAC drives the headphones directly, with nothing in the way to color or degrade the highest resolution (173 dB dynamic range) DAC in the world, clocked by the lowest jitter (33 femtoseconds) clock in the world.