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Headphone amplifier C.E.C. HD53NSeparate high-end phone amplifier recently appeared in the line of the Japanese company. It is made in flat-pack format mini and made with traditional CEC simplicity and thoroughness. On the front panel mounted sockets professional class, allowing not only the quarter-connection "Jack", but also connectors XLR. And judging by the labels below them to HD53N can connect more and so-called stereotelefony balanced, which serves only as a common wire for the screen, and the signal is supplied to the voice coil to the different "arms" of the output amplifier. For this reason, and all circuitry is implemented in a symmetrical ideology, and on the rear panel line input supplemented balanced. The output stage of the device is notable not only by the absence of chains of environmental protection, but also increased power. Amplifier in general can be used as a regular integrated amplifier, taking him to 13 watts per channel into 8-ohm speakers. To "Jack" outputs the signal goes through different resistive dividers. Left jack to low-impedance phones, right - for phones resistance more than 120 ohms. There is also the step switching of the output level. One of the buttons next to the simplest luminal display just responsible. The rest choose the input and converting the signal to the speakers terminals.
Listening with headphones Audez'e LCD-2. Optimal for Audez'e, in my opinion, left the nest, Low Gain. And let the reproduction of such inclusion is somewhat lacking "teeth" and the fast dynamics (drums sound filling, but somehow neshustro), but the tonal balance gives a very pleasant, warm with the lightest shades in the lower ranks have relief comes through all the nuances of drawing microdynamics and on the strengths of dense fragments and no hint of distortion. On good coordination point and clean, not turbid tint high-frequency components from the noise spectrum. The scene in detail, the space properly assembled in the sense that the amplifier does not impose the listener's own scale - you can easily determine the size of the concert hall or studio.
Listening with headphones Sennheiser HD 800. But with high-impedance phones is more difficult to choose which mode is preferable. In High Gain sound captivates fast dynamics and detailing on the edges of the range, but even middle register "overheated" and jutting - Play turns spectacular, eye-catching, but somehow elusive. In the Low Gain sacrificing dynamics, but wins in the harmony and the materiality of the transfer of each image. Sound more natural and airy, dry coloring compensated HF, which is present in trace amounts blended themselves "eight hundred". In this case, the couple appear and analytical inclinations. Spatial and microdynamics detailing so precise that you can literally "deduct" each record to the last digit. |