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Review and Measurements of New JDS Labs Atom Headphone Amp
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I'll be curious to see how power compares to O2 and EL AMP.
Pairing this with the Khadas Tone board is probably the endgame for me
That kind of performance for $200 is just simply unbelievable. This is unquestionably a value proposition for single ended that won't be rivaled for some time to come. Exciting times! If I was in the single ended market, this is how I'd go, although I'd probably keep my D10, as the sonic improvements the Khadas DAC brings are mostly inaudible and the D10 looks very sharp on the desk.
From what I understand here, @300 ohm the O2 clips at 0.11 watts with THD+N of ~0.0015%, whereas JDS Atom does not clip till 0.25 watts with THD+N of 0.0005%.
TL;DR JDS Atom has much lower noise and much more clean power.
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Is the knob also plastic or aluminium?
Amir is turning into a JDSLabs shill...
Is the knob also plastic or aluminium?
It will be hard Topping that.
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Plastic.
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Honestly, aside from how light it is It didn't 100% dawn on me that it's plastic. There's a nice texture to the plastic and all the buttons and knobs feel solid. I suppose if I had to knit pick, I of course like the slight resistance I get from the OL Switchers potentiometer vs that of the Atom
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At what output level?
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Sure but let's wait for the formal release of the product.Could we also get a pic under the hood too
Looks like @March Audio will have to drop the projected price on his HPA-1.
Well this is certainly fantastic value for money, but as I said previously I wont be trying to aggressively compete on price, thats a race to the bottom.
We arent really comparing apples with apples here, its built to a price point. If you consider a modest margin of 2.5x BOM you do wonder ($40 to build! ). Plastic V milled aluminium casework, single ended V balanced input, analogue pot volume etc.
That's not knocking the JDS, it's great performance.
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This is also what I am worrying. The best way is forum members in US sending their equipment to amirm for review.Generally speaking, with this kind of preview-review, there a risk that the manufacturer sends a "golden unit" to @amirm, I think.
Test of a unit bought on the market is a little bit more valuable, to me.
On the other hand, we have also seen manufacturer send in "brown unit", hahahaha
Yes, a raving review here could drive sales extremely, I guess. That is quite some incitament. And should be, if all is fair.
Let's hope we have no Ben Johnson Audio or Marion Jones Audio manufacturers here! (joke).
Let's hope we have no Ben Johnson Audio or Marion Jones Audio manufacturers here! (joke).
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Generally speaking, with this kind of preview-review, there is a risk that the manufacturer sends a "golden unit" to @amirm, I think.
Test of a unit bought on the market is a little bit more valuable, to me.
On the other hand, we have also seen manufacturer send in "brown unit", hahahaha
I think thats possibly a bit cynical, but quality control does take time and therefore money. Although not properly launched, I do have a small number of my dacs out in the wild and each unit I tested for 24 hours to get them (as far as is reasonably practicable) past the "infant mortality" point, followed by an automated performance test. I will be doing this with all the products.
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This forum is really unhealthy for my student wallet
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Why? You just need khadas and atom, and that's it for your headphones/2.0 speakers. You're set4life.
Yeah. For today. Keep in mind how much has changed in 24 hours with this news. What will tomorrow bring??Why? You just need khadas and atom, and that's it for your headphones/2.0 speakers. You're set4life.
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