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- The BasX A-100 offers all the essential features that make a great audio component, like a heavy duty power supply, great sounding high-current short signal path Class A/B amplifiers, industry standard unbalanced audio inputs, and full-sized five-way binding post speaker terminals. The BasX A-100 delivers a solid 50 watts per channel into 8 Ohms and 80 Watts per channel into 4 Ohms; plenty to drive most speakers to satisfying listening levels
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The BasX A-100 offers all the essential features that make a great audio component, like a heavy duty power supply, great sounding high-current short signal path Class A/B amplifiers, industry standard unbalanced audio inputs, and full-sized five-way binding post speaker terminals. The BasX A-100 delivers a solid 50 watts per channel into 8 Ohms and 80 Watts per channel into 4 Ohms; plenty to drive most speakers to satisfying listening levels.
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It has LOTs of power, like you said, but also LOTS of noise relative to good $100-$150 headphone amps and a high likelihood of channel imbalance. The recent Audioscience Review test
[audiosciencereview.com] shows distortion at .012%, Noise at 78dB below signal, and about .5dB L/R channel difference at 5W (likely higher at headphone volumes).
By comparison the $99 Schiit Heresy has .0007% distortion, Noise 103dB below signal, no channel imbalance...and PLENTY of power for 99.5% of all headphones. Plus, the Heresy has an external gain switch, so you do not have to open the chassis anytime you want to switch between high/low sensitivity headphones.
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Wait, what are we talking about again?
It also works great for planars and high impedance dynamics, which is mainly what I drive with it (full power jumpers NOT installed). The higher noise floor isn't audible with any of my 10 planars and I get a tubey sound with them, which is great because tube amps typically don't work well with low impedance planars.
So if you want a super clean, analytical sound, this amp is not for you. There are TONS of super clean headphones out there to choose from if that's what you want. But if you want something that sounds tubey and different, especially for planars, this is a great amp.
I'm trying to learn and put together a (somewhat) decent entry level home theater and enjoy listening to headphones.
I've read alot about "sound" regarding this unit.... but is it also an amp or does it have to be paired with a AVR?
I bought a pair of Sennheiser HD 650's and only had the opportunity to use them by way of my cell (Samsung Note 20 Ultra).
They don't get loud enough in terms of volume. Would this be able to help with that?
Again, new to all of this... wondering what exactly this does as opposed to let's say plugging in my 'phones directly to my (yet unpurchased) AVR.
Thanks for helping!
For home theater experience, you need a receiver, I personally like denon for audissey calibration capabilities (and for beginners it has a good walk through visual instalation gujde built in). But many will swear by Yamaha. At any rate I doubt there's much difference. I would buy a receiver with at lease 7.1 channels for adding atmos speakers if you ever feel like it. This amp doesn't help much (or at all) if you just want a nice entry level HT. Other than that just get some decent speakers and you're set.
Oh, and I don't have much advice to give on headphones, but receivers always have decent headphone jacks. TBH a lot of the talk you've seen here seem to be comming more from audiophiles or specs fans (no offense intended). If you want entry level or even a little over it, you won't need much.
Fair warning - it's large. It's about 14" deep by 9" wide, so make sure you've got room for it somewhere before you buy. This price is solid - these never go on sale.
My Aiyima A07 blows away the Yamaha and Onkyo ~$1000 class A/B receivers I've had over the years, for stereo. (Which the receivers have been, and still are, great for surround, DTS/Dolby etc)
With the basic 32v PSU it came with I'm currently driving some old Bose 701s in the garage that can be heard down the street, very low distortion.
Small size, fanless, no heat.
A lot of Watts and low noise/THD for the $
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CJZG...UTF8&
Coupled with their tube preamplifier, the sound really comes out - and provides Bluetooth 5.0
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QNPX...UTF8&
Also looks like 5% and 6% off respectively.
You could definitely find better and/or cheaper TPA3255 boards/amps out there, but you may be waiting weeks/months on shipping.
Also can upgrade opamps, capacitors/filters, but unless you have incredibly sensitive hearing, I recommend starting with something like this Aiyima - and even then, probably won't disappoint.
My next upgrade will be PSU, but likely that's just going to end up pissing off the wife, the neighbors, and get the cops called...
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EDIT: not sure if this Emotiva has one either, LOL. The Fusion Flex I bought on CL came with a very basic remote so I figured this would have one as well.
Finally got a discount.
Grabbed one and a AC filter
Finally got a discount.
Grabbed one and a AC filter
Sometimes 15% off is a huge deal. Like with Apple products. No idea if this is a good deal, but if you know of a better price feel free to post it.
Although lot's of UPS system and surge protector already have some kind of similar function.
It's a myth but I would like to have it anyways
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Although lot's of UPS system and surge protector already have some kind of similar function.
It's a myth but I would like to have it anyways
https://ifi-audio.com/products/ac-ipurifier/