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HIFIMAN Prelude Balanced Headphone Amplifier

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$3299.25 $4399 In stock

Category: Cat_All Headphone Amplifiers

Full Balanced Class A MOS-FET High Current Output

The fully discrete architecture features a precise, single-ended balance conversion circuit that renders the single-ended RCA input balanced.



Balanced Input Stage

The input stage employs a fully balanced amplifier architecture, with precise, single-ended/balanced conversion. The pre-amplifier circuit is independent, adopting a class A output structure, with excellent power and natural timbre.



ALPS Potentiometer

The potentiometer ensures complete and accurate channel balance.



High-power, low-noise

A customized high-power, low-noise torodial transformer, with multi-channel high-speed low-noise voltage regulator circuit, supplies power for the headphone amplifier.



Aluminium Chassis

The housing is manufactured from a single piece of aluminium, which helps isolate harmful resonance that negatively affects sonic output.

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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

John D. ★★★★★

The Class A topology runs surprisingly cool even after hours of listening, and the high-current output really tightened up the bass on my planar headphones. That balanced conversion circuit cleaned up the noise floor noticeably from my single-ended source.

Olivia ★★★★★

The Class A MOSFET design really brings out the texture in my classical recordings—microdynamics I'd never heard before. Driving my planars through the balanced output, the soundstage opened up noticeably wider than with my previous amp.

Violet ★★★★★

I was a bit skeptical about the single-ended to balanced conversion, but it's so clean that my old Sennheisers finally sound like they have proper headroom. The Class A MOS-FET output runs warm but stays dead quiet, which is exactly what I needed.