New Soncoz Headphone Amp coming soon?

[Racheski]

Somebody on Drop posted these. Appears to be fully balanced with a digital display.

 

[lizhuoyin]

Somebody on Drop posted these. Appears to be fully balanced with a digital display.
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Posted in their facebook too.

 

[Racheski]

Posted in their facebook too.

Did they hint at a release date?

 

[deafenears]

@Ben1987 , any details you can share here?

 

[cursive]

Looks awesome, really like their designs, and I'm a sucker for amber colored displays. If you look closely you can see a "PRE" option on the front screen as well, very happy to see a pre amp mode as this is what's sorely lacking on the SMSL SP400, and Gustard H16 amps.

 

[lizhuoyin]

IN - for input selection, Single ended or Balanced
HPA - for headphone amp output, Single ended or Balanced
PRE - for preamp output, Single ended or Balanced
V - for Volume control, both for HPA and PRE???
G - for HPA gain???

 

[cursive]

IN - for input selection, Single ended or Balanced
HPA - for headphone amp output, Single ended or Balanced
PRE - for preamp output, Single ended or Balanced
V - for Volume control, both for HPA and PRE???
G - for HPA gain???

Good call, hopefully that means you can turn off the preamp outputs when using headphones, and vice versa. From the labeling maybe it just allows you to change the output jacks.

 

[Ben1987]

IN - for input selection, Single ended or Balanced YES
HPA - for headphone amp output, Single ended or Balanced YES
PRE - for preamp output, Single ended or Balanced YES
V - for Volume control, both for HPA and PRE??? YES
G - for HPA gain???

Both for HPA and PRE gain.

 

[Ben1987]

hopefully that means you can turn off the preamp outputs when using headphones,

Both HPA and PRE work independently.

 

[Human Bass]

Chunky.

 

[preload]

Not bad but would benefit from a slab aluminum faceplate and panel mount heavy duty rca jacks. Also would like to see panel off pics.

 

[jannek]

That would be an Audio-GD.

 

[vlydog]

I emailed Soncoz in March and this was their response:

"Thanks for your interest in SONCOZ products. Yes, we will launch the headphone amplifier SGA-1 soon. It will match our DAC SGD1. We will post pre-sale information on ASR late next month probably."

 

[Racheski]

Over/Under is $499. I'm taking the over.

 

[vlydog]

Over/Under is $499. I'm taking the over.

I asked about price but they didn't address it in their response.

 

[vlydog]

@SONCOZ any updates for the community?

 

[rmsanger]

I saw this recently.. thoughts?

https://hifigo.com/products/soncoz-sga1-fully-balanced-headphone-amp-pre-amp-hpa-pre

 

[Human Bass]

I saw this recently.. thoughts?

https://hifigo.com/products/soncoz-sga1-fully-balanced-headphone-amp-pre-amp-hpa-pre

Why it is so underpowered at 32ohm?

 

[bahamot]

Prof Wolf measured it, it doesn't look too good