Hifiman ef2a dac headphone amplifier teardown main board. The hifiman ef2a is a hybrid usb dac amplifier that promises to give you warm sound and melodies offered by vacuum tubes and solidstate amplifiers. Fang bian in 2007, hifiman is widely regarded as one of the leading manufacturers of high performance headphones and portable audio. Hifiman electronics edition s openclosed back onear.
Cleverly, it uses some kind of offtheshelf dac module. Analogue seduction can provide you with an excellent selection of the best turntables, cd players, amplifiers and speakers in the world, and all of the interconnects, speakers cables and accessories you may need to go with them. Hifiman headphones are well known around these parts in the secrets community. The ta01 is powered by an external switchmode power supply. The hybrid design employs two 6j1 tubes for its input stage and incorporates the opa2604 along with discrete components for its output. Have you used other hybrids that were less satisfactory in this regard.
Dont know if there was already a topic on this but after a quick search i didnt really find anything. Unless you want to run it through your computer, then id go with a usb dac. The hifiman ef100 was sent to us free of charge months ago already. Bravo audio v2 class a 12au7 tube multihybrid headphone amp. I have a hifiman ef2a hybrid, alongside my magni3, but im seriously considering picking up a vali 2 to tide me over until the zdt jr ships in june.
Simply connect the unit via usb to bypass your computers cutrate audio components. Is there enough power there to drive some of the higher q. Hey everyone, i just bought my first pair of nice headphones, the akg k240 studios 55 ohm, not the sextett. As some people have asked me before about fidelizers compatibility with windows 10. This is fun, and much more like what i expected tube rolling to be like.
An affordable alternative in a tube driven headphone amplifier, the ef2a is a hybrid design, usb headphone amplifier using 6j1 tubes for its input stage and incorporates a burrbrown pcm2702 dac chip. Hi guys, was wondering about the xbox one controller would it still be possible to use the controller when phone is rooted. Prominent at the table was the silvery ef100, hardly roughly the footprint of a mac mini, its transformer cap and tube cage gently rising from its sloping deck. The personal audio priceperformance pundit saturday, august 1, 2015. So my question is, would an external sound card sound as good as an internal for the same price. The recently launched hifiman ef2 amplifier takes center stage as we. Vp530 usb tube phono preamp alpha design labs gt40 phonostageadcusb dac headphone amp the builtin phonostage and analogtodigital converter make the gt40 a unique archival tool. This type of system is ideal to enjoy the famous melodic tube sound with a reasonably sized device and without spending too much. The personal audio priceperformance pundit sunday, august 31, 2014.
Created by the innovator of the planar magnetic technology, the hifiman he400i is a high quality, fullsize planar magnetic head phone created for critical listening at home or in studio. An offboard linear power supply telegraphs the serious intent of this miniature converter. This compact digital to analog converter headphone amp hifiman ef2a. An affordable alternative in a tubedriven headphone amplifier, the ef2a is a hybrid design, usb headphone amplifier using 6j1 tubes for its input stage and. Hifiman, the leader in planar magnetic headphone technology, has done is again and redefined how good planar driver technology can be. Kho tai nghe monster beats, vmoda, audiotechnica, koss. Hardware teardown of hifiman ef2a dac and headphone.
The ef2a provides usb input and features 16 bit 44. Not just an amp, the hifiman ef2a is also a dac digital to analog converter with legendary and well known burrbrown pcm2702e chip affording not just more power. In a possible effort to spread the wealth and grant access to their awesome headphones without breaking the bank, theyve introduced the he300 over the ear. So an alternative set up with a warmish dac, a tube amp and a hd650 or fidelio x1 will give you a very different and probably more pleasing experience than the one i outlined in the previous paragraph. See more ideas about home theater receiver, home theater and home cinemas. Its increased efficiency allows it to be driven with a modest size amplifier.
Doubles as a 24bit96k usb dac and headphone amplifier. Where the ef1 is equipped with one 12au7 tube the new ef2 uses. Hifiman he400i fullsize planar magnetic headphones and. Frank happens to be close friends with hifimans dr. Hifiman ef2a 1 hifiman ef3 1 hifiman he400 2 hifiman he500. It was loud enough i was concerned about damaging the drivers.
This is a small unit as you can see here, dwarfed not by one but two audio precision analyzers. The ef2c is the perfect match for most pcdriven audiophile headphones. Aside from the us products there are some chinese tube amps that are leap. Bravo audio v2 class a 12au7 tube multihybrid headphone. Has anybody tried the headphone output on the xmc1 with good quality headphones. Designed for discriminating music listeners who demand performance and value. External vs internal sound card audio linus tech tips. Found 200 records in search of computer audio asylum 1. It has an interesting looks better than hifiman,nice and powerful sound, but ef2a is much powerful and the. Power of the magnetics using singleended drivers, he560 delivers a lifelike soundstage and spatial imaging that hifiman is known for. Yingbin road, bacheng county, kunshan city, jiangsu prov. Plug the hifiman ef2a into one of your computers usb ports and prepare to be impressed.
Well there is the hifiman ef2a, and it does have a built in usb dac, but that has such a high preset gain and noise floor it is essentially unusable with low impedance headphones. Hifiman he6 open back orthodynamic audiophile headphones. Upgrade dac and get rid of the usbspdif converter 6. You can connect any kind of effects pedals to it including something like a tube driver. Just connect the amplifier to the usb port of any computer to listen to music. While this certainly isnt the first headphone amplifier hifiman has ever made, this is the first hifiman amplifier i welcomed in to my home.
The inline ampusb 384khz32bit dsd usb audio dac with vacuum tube amplifier is an ultramastering grade digital audio playback system. Review and measurements of hifiman ef2a dac and headphone. Find hifiman in headphones headphones for sale in canada. Hifiman ef2a vacuum tube headphone amplifierusb dac at. The hifiman ef6 amplifier, he6 and he500 headphones, the audeze lcd3, bottlehead crack using a 5998, aune t1 usb tube dac using a telefunken 6922, epiphany acoustics and kimber rca cables and lastly my audioengine a5 home speakers. A compact desktop design with an integrated usb dac inherits the power and performance from the ef2a. A headphone of the year award will do that for you. The ef2 is a headphone amplifier with an integrated dac which.
The standmount shares the same drivers as the range topping in a compact. Like most hybrid amps it probably sounds 23 solid state and tube. I went through two of them in as many years before going with a solid state aune usb dac amp that. Hifiman ef2a vacuum tube headphone amplifierusb dac at crutchfield. Hifiman ef2a is a hybrid usb headphone amplifier using 6j1 tubes as input stage. It has an interesting looks better than hifiman,nice and powerful sound, but ef2a. Impressive little tube amp for anyone interested in the hifi world or someone who is new to the audiophile realm. This compact digitaltoanalog converter headphone amp bypasses your computers builtin dac and audio circuitry processing your digital music files outside the noisy environment of your computer for far better sound quality. Carrot one is a small italian china1 tube dacamp class d, if i remember right. Carrot one is a small italian china1 tube dac amp class d, if i remember right. Just plug in your turntable, and it outputs a digital wav file via usb.
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