Head Direct Vaccum Tube Amplifier + USB DAC [ Soundcard ]

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Amarbir

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Guys ,

Today I Received My First Hifiman Head direct Tube Amp That Can Take a RCA Source "Might Be You Guys Call It Something Else " And It Also Has The USB DAC .The Photo Of The Unit Is Here On My Repair Table

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The Product Has Two Tubes In The Unit ,the Inside Of The unit Was Looking Great Its Great Component Layout And Placement Of Components .As a Electronic Buff i Can Tell You That the Soldering And All Was A Class .Here Have a Look

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The Front Has a On Off Toggle Switch that Is On When Its On the Top side :yahoo: .The Unit Is Run By a Large 16 Volts AC Adapter ,I Had To Use a Square Pin To Round Pin Mx connector .the Front Also Has a Large Sized Stereo Female Socket For The Output ,I Had To Use a Converter To Run My Soundmagic IEMS [ Pl11 ,Pl30 And The Pl50 ] .The Front also Has a Volume Control Knob That Is Awesome To Use .The Back Has the USB DAC Connection and The Normal RCA Inputs ,the Source At the Back Is Selected Via a On And Off Switch At The Back .Here Have A Look At Some Photos .

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I Have Not Been Able Test The USB DAC Cos All The systems Have Windows XP And In Two Machines When I Connect the USB DAc i Get a Message "Burr Brown PCM 2072 " Drivers Required ,According To My Googling It Says they Are Installed Auto But In My Case i Need to Run It On a vista System Or Some Other system ,Too Bad Today :eek:hyeah:
 
Nice !! The EF2A looks very promising going by the opinion of head-fi members and a very good contender for someone looking to get their first DAC +Amp .These can very well drive high end headphones like HD 600,650, 800 from Sennheiser and at the same time they can even drive high-end IEMs with low sensitivity.

Cant wait to get my hands on it .:D
 
FaH33m said:
Nice !! The EF2A looks very promising going by the opinion of head-fi members and a very good contender for someone looking to get their first DAC +Amp .These can very well drive high end headphones like HD 600,650, 800 from Sennheiser and at the same time they can even drive high-end IEMs with low sensitivity.

Cant wait to get my hands on it .:D
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Dude dont tell me ur getting it :mad::mad:

Btw pajji nice setup :p
 
Metalspree said:
Dude dont tell me ur getting it :mad::mad::mad:

Btw pajji nice setup :p
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Hi ,

Where Are You Now A Days Man We Miss You and Couple Of Days Back I Got Infracted As I Posted The Same To you In Other Dealers Thread Lol .:tongue:
 
Amarbir[Chandigarh] said:
Hi ,
Where Are You Now A Days Man We Miss You and Couple Of Days Back I Got Infracted As I Posted The Same To you In Other Dealers Thread Lol .:tongue:
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I am in NZ paaji doing my Masters.I am missing all deals from you and other dealers :cry:.I guess i am missing review products also ( some one else is grabbing the stuff i might get if i was in India :()
 
Ohk I got my hands on these today along with some other goodies(review samples) sent by Fang via Amarbir :D.I have to say for just 169 $ this literally blows it !! It's amazing ..Lot lot better than my internal XONAR DX.I was totally stunned with the clarity it provides.

Tried my SHP 9000 headphones and a few other IEMs like the RE0,RE252,Crossroads Quattro etc . and they all sound very clean and 2-3 levels better than my other sources like my Clip+ with Fiio E5 or internal XONAR DX card,and even Iphone + line out.Ofcourse it's not really supposed to be compared with these,but just to give you a general idea .

Also I've read that it has a burn-in period of 300-400 hrs so expecting better results later on and might sound even better with Op-amp swapping for the DACs and tube rolling for the Amp.Now I need to source some better tubes, and matching ear gear as well:p

Expect detailed review in the future.I was planning for a Ibasso D4 /T3 to upgrade on a better level , I guess it's not needed now as I am already in love with this ...Maybe I should get better cans to do justice to the EF2A :p.
 
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