Vaejoviscarolinanus
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For real lol
I just used the rca cables that JDS sells.
For real lol
I think that JDS have provided just what many (myself included) wanted, an Atom in a nice metal enclosure and with nice industrial design. Does that make it sound any better? No, but it does make it nicer to own. I have an Atom and think it's probably the best $99 you can spend in audio but I will be buying one of these. The Atom will become my office and travel companion. Personally I think they made a good call avoiding balanced on this as with so much power available I see no point in a balanced output and I have never had an issue using the Atom with RCA inputs.
The El Amp 2 has a preamp feature, El Amp 1 was passthru only.What is the difference to El Amp 1?
What is the difference to El Amp 1?
Indeed, the 2nd version is way better, just check SINAD difference and you'll see that.The measurements look much worse.
Then get whatever piece of equipment you think it might sound better. Although, ASR differs from portals like whathifi by the objective measurements did by Amir and others, so I'm not sure ASR is the right forum to tell that, unless I missunderstand your thoughts.But measurements don't say anything.
The measurements look much worse. But measurements don't say anything.
To piggyback on MKZM's question... Yeah, why do headphone amp builders make such quirky design choices? I question putting two identical frequently used buttons close together on the rear panel where you can't see them. Would putting the two pushbuttons on the front (where there's nothing but a headphone jack) as JDS does on their own Atom- mess up the 'aesthetics' that much? I don't think so.
To piggyback on MKZM's question... Yeah, why do headphone amp builders make such quirky design choices? I question putting two identical frequently used buttons close together on the rear panel where you can't see them. Would putting the two pushbuttons on the front (where there's nothing but a headphone jack) as JDS does on their own Atom- mess up the 'aesthetics' that much? I don't think so.
It doesn't seem there is likely to be a vast chasm audibly between the performance of the Atom and this amp, so I guess the metal enclosure is responsible for most of the > 2:1 price difference.
To piggyback on MKZM's question... Yeah, why do headphone amp builders make such quirky design choices? I question putting two identical frequently used buttons close together on the rear panel where you can't see them. Would putting the two pushbuttons on the front (where there's nothing but a headphone jack) as JDS does on their own Atom- mess up the 'aesthetics' that much? I don't think so.
It doesn't seem there is likely to be a vast chasm audibly between the performance of the Atom and this amp, so I guess the metal enclosure is responsible for most of the > 2:1 price difference.
I think the EL Amp II looks cleaner enough than the Atom to justify the inconvenience.You're right.
I've always thought that a lot of electronics designers in the audio industry would benefit from some training in hardware user interface design.
I have some professional experience in web design and web user experience. I spot all kinds of hardware user interface tweaks that might be made, and hardware interface is not something I've been trained in. If nothing else, there must be hardware interface consultants that could take one look at a device and spot obvious problems. And just a little bit of usability testing with a prototype could also probably pick up some issues.