And a remote (can't believe they charge extra for it btw), a digital touchscreen color display, a mobile app, additional XLR and RCA inputs, mono XLR out. Are there any other headphone amps with all of those bells and whistles?
A touch screen on a simple headamp/preamp is just silly. All it should really do is show the attenuation. Switching inputs would be much easier with dedicated buttons instead, especially when there are only 4.
they probably could have included a Modius board and still been less than 20% of HPA 4 price.
I don't doubt it would be possible to undercut Benchmark by skimping on the bling (see above...) but the Freya S was already 20% of the HPA4's price and only had half the steps of HPA4.