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We will bring out a headphone amp (or two) with balanced outs with V200 amp ciruitry in the future.
As we are very busy in the moment and we dont want to release more than 2 new model per year,
I dont know if we would release these amps (or one of these) in 2011. 2012 will be more realistic.
About the concept:
The backbone of new amps will be a case with more space in it.
We are very happy with our current case solution as it is looks good, feels good and serves good to protect the electronics.
For balanced solutions we need more space, also as we have got some other ideas in mind.
So the new case will have same depth, same width but more height (about 110 mm, aprox 4")
The basic features which make the Violectric amps so famous will remain:
- low noise design
- Pre-Gain for easy adaption to (nearly) all cans
- high damping factor to control low impedance cans
- high output voltage to feed high impedance cans
The high output voltage will even be doubled in balanced mode !!
First will be a model with single power supply but balanced amp design based on the circuitry of V200.
Analog inputs will be balanced and unbalanced.
A unbalanced active thru shall be present with its own cinch connectors.
Also there will be a digital input at extra cost.
Customers may choose from UBS 16/48 or 24/96, or optical PCM input or coax PCM input (both 24/96).
Standard will be a volume control with Alps RK27 which is highly reputated and very long lasting.
As an option there will be a more sophisticated volume control.
Turn-switch solutions with 24 steps are not efficient enough, also the feel of these switches whilst turning
suffers from the low turning angel of 15 degrees.
So we are thinking of a more sophisticated solution with 64 steps made with relais.
All this will be controlled with a normal potentiometer to have a common feel.
As far as I know this was never realized in a headphone amp before.
