What about this is unclear?I can't see how this can be recommended.
I am going to recommend the Soncoz SGA1 on the strength of its its ability to drive high impedance headphones, nice looks, and perfect channel matching. If these match your criteria, you are good to go.
What does PFC have to do with it? You can have universal switching supply without PFC. And it is not like this doesn't support dual voltages. It does, but does this with a switch which I have only seen in linear power supplies. I just looked at the specs and it is indeed a linear power supply:Not necessarily - it could be switching, just with passive or no PFC.
I can read, nothing is "unclear"What about this is unclear?
So it's get recommenced because it does 50% well of what a headphone amplifier is suppose to do.I am going to recommend the Soncoz SGA1 on the strength of its its ability to drive high impedance headphones
Isn't the whole shtick of ASR objective reviews..? How something looks is highly subjective and should not carry any weight in the final reasoning to recommend or not recommend a product.nice looks
As I said in my post the channel matching is one of the few things that it has going for it.and perfect channel matching.
I really really hope you can listen to it.As I said in my post the channel matching is one of the few things that it has going for it.
Given the high price and the flaws of this amplifier in the very crowed landscape of headphone amplifiers I just don't see how this can be recommend.
At the risk of asking a stupid question, why would a headphone amp need a firmware upgrade at all?@Ben1987 It doesn't look like the SGA1 does the wireless OTA firmware upgrading that its DAC counterpart does, is that correct? If so, is there any way to do firmware upgrades on it?
I guess I'm just asking because in the case of the DAC, the latest firmware increased the performance a fair bit over what it was originally shipped with. I wouldn't want to miss out on something similar if Ben continued making improvements on the amp's software like he did on the SGD1.At the risk of asking a stupid question, why would a headphone amp need a firmware upgrade at all?
Topping L50 has protection circuits controlled by the firmware. Apparently there is a possibility to adjust parameters if there is breakage similar to L30.At the risk of asking a stupid question, why would a headphone amp need a firmware upgrade at all?
SGA1 does not have an upgrade function, and software upgrades do not affect performance as SGD1 doesIt doesn't look like the SGA1 does the wireless OTA firmware upgrading that its DAC counterpart does, is that correct?
ESS DAC chips have special parameters to reduce distortion. The firmware programs those and that was the change that improved its score. Here, as Ben notes, there is nothing like that to tweak.I guess I'm just asking because in the case of the DAC, the latest firmware increased the performance a fair bit over what it was originally shipped with.
At the risk of asking a stupid question, why would a headphone amp need a firmware upgrade at all?
Yes, this unit we released late last year. https://www.soncoz.com/product-item-5.html Product information can be viewed on the official website.Anyone have news on the Soncoz QXA1? Seems it uses the same volume chip as this one. And WAY lower in cost.