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 Balanced Desktop Amp
The HeadRoom Balanced Desktop Amp. Upscale balanced-drive becomes affordable. Small size, impossibly huge sound.
 
 Desktop
Whether 'as-is' or upgraded to your hearts content, the Desktop Amp is a great way to experience your music.
 
 Desktop Amp
Whether you select the basic model or deliciously upgrade to your ears' content, the Desktop Amp is an amazing way to experience your music.

The center of your desktop-based listening universe arrives in a small-footprint, lusciously curved black aluminum chassis surrounded by protective molded urethane bumpers. The HeadRoom Desktop Amp delivers an integrated solution for all demanding audiophile headphone listening situations in both digital and analog domains regardless whether it's a headphone-only or a monitor-oriented application. So no matter if you connect to an iPod, laptop/PC computer, portable CD/DVD player, HeadRoom Power Amps, pre-amp, turntable phono stage, big home theatre, component stereo system, gamer box, or custom audio front-end, this nook-sized 'made in Montana, USA' HeadRoom rig driving your favorite reference headphones will transform personal and near-field headspace into pure sonic nirvana.
 
 Desktop Millet Hybrid
A tube rolling delight, this sweet little amp comes with three pairs of different tubes.
 
 Desktop Portable
Ultimate portable headphone amp seeks a place in the mind of evolved traveler.
 
 Home Balanced
Those willing to custom cable their headphones will be rewarded with exquisite listening with this balanced drive amplifier.
 
 Max Balanced
No one needs this amp; there’s just no excuse for it. Unless, of course, you can afford thoughts like, “I can hear the cellist breathing through his nose. He needs to clip his nose hairs.” Personally, we have a hard time thinking at all when we listen to this amp.
 
 Micro Amp
A sweet little hard-core headphone amp dressed in black and ready to go.
 
 Millett Desktop Hybrid Amp
A tube rollers' delight, this sweet little amp comes with three pairs of differently-toned tubes.

Get ready for the lush life! If you’ve never owned a vacuum tube amp before, you’re in for a real treat. In brief, tubes have a lot more second harmonic distortion than solid-state transistors, and fewer high-order distortion products... What that actually sounds like inside your head is a superbly warm, luscious wash of tonal color in the music. The great advantage of an amp with this kind of coloration is that it makes ragged and low-fidelity recordings sound much better. This is a superb headphone amp choice for your older rock and jazz recordings, as well as for a lot of the more modern dance, hip-hop and remix tracks that sometimes have a tendency towards a harsh, sharp-edged timbre in the upper treble ranges. For headphones that lean towards the overly-bright or peaky-sounding, the Millett will also help lend a new sense of smoothness to their sound.
 
 Portable Desktop Amp
Perfected & beautifully refined over five generations, the Portable Desktop is like having a high-end listening room in your briefcase.

There's just no way to achieve the superb transparency, the rich musical detail resolution, or the deeply immersive soundstaging on regular headphones compared to what's possible on balanced-drive headphone systems. Balanced amplifiers & balanced XLR headphone cabling will deliver the most revealing and accurate headphone sound available with a precise expressiveness of tone, pitch-black sonic backgrounds, and a vast, lightning-quick dynamic range that simply defines reference listening in its most pure form. Suddenly, subtle nuances in recordings you've heard a million times before become newly evident and thrillingly vivid, creating an intimate emotional re-connection to all your favorite music. So we've spent some long hours in the HeadRoom lab working hard to condense the cutting-edge technology & the impressive sonic gains of balanced-drive into our little 'Desktop Amp' chassis. The small 6"X6" footprint easily sits in a tiny nook on your workstation, nightstand, or audio rack. And, oh yeah, we were also able to nicely shrink the pricepoint so more listeners can experience the sound quality typically heard in a $20,000 speaker-based stereo for well under a couple of grand
 
 Total AirHead
Your head will be so happy when you put one between your portable player and a pair of high-quality headphones.

Put a Total AirHead portable headphone amp between your portable player and quality headphones and, presto-chango, the space between your ears becomes your own personal listening room. How does it do it? Behind most headphone jacks is a very cheap op-amp. The Total AirHead is a true miniature power amplifier for headphones. It isolates your player from the complex load of the headphones (which make the player even sound better), and it drives them with the authority and finesse of quality power amplification. The result? Exquisite audio right between your ears.
 
 Total Bithead
You’ll be totally amazed how good your computer sounds!

Take a Total BitHead, plug it into the USB port on your computer, then plug the best headphones you’ve got into the Total BitHead, and BAM, knock-your-socks-off sound. Later, pack it up in a HeadRoom bag with your favorite portable player, and you’ve got one of the most aurally delightful portable audio systems on the planet. Think about it: a great back end for your computer and a sweet analog headphone amp to use with your portable player for only $149. Your ears will thank you.
 

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