OK, we’ve seen tube amps for iPods. How about a tube headphone amp. From Cary Audio Design…
Cary Audio Design is thrilled to introduce the most recent addition to its storied history of superb vacuum-tube audio technologies, the Xciter integrated amplifier.
This innovative integrated power amplifier was conceived to be a small desktop integrated unit, and designed to please the discerning headphone fanatic and the high-end audiophile alike. In the Cary tradition, it features a gorgeous cabinet, and has a subtle touch of translucent blue LED back lighting to complement the natural beauty of the vacuum tubes.
Although it may be small in physical size, it is imbued with the full spirit of Cary Audio. Its five watts per channel in class A triode mode plays much bigger than one might expect, and its sublime musicality is just what you would expect from Cary Audio.
A 5 watter; that should be more than enough for headphones. But, dig this; this baby has two 12AX7A input gain stage/driver stage tubes and four 6L6GC output tubes. Four 6L6s! That’s some beef there.
How are you ever going to get that to saturate? heh, heh….
This is all still very odd to me.
4 66L6’s for a headphone amp? Sounds like a waste of power tubes to me, but I’m not an electronics guy,so maybe there’s something to it.
It’s odd. It seems to me that a tube headphone amp would be like a processor. Maybe four 6L6s allows a ton of headroom but adds some natural compression or something.
I’m sure it looks cool with all the tubes glowing.
Okay you two… a trip to seventh heaven at the middle of our universe produced a vision beyond all desire… a reality of unique quantum particle-beam paradox… there in the bright light of truth and reason for the universe, life, and everything… yes, is a tube amp.