Headphone amplifier Naim Headline

From a distance, any component Naim looks straightforward black box, but it is worth to consider it closely, amazed with what care and engineering acumen done. Thick-walled aluminum casing telephone amplifier Headline, for example, has no visible joints or fasteners. How is that even possible to be collected? Front - only the headphone jack, power button and volume control. Rear - connector for external (and, incidentally, much more weighty than the amplifier itself) power supply and cable output jacks instead of the usual RCA. Upon customer request the "tail" mounted or traditional "tulip" or 5-pin DIN Headline integration in audio Naim. We have been, of course, "international" version with RCA.

Listening with headphones Audez'e LCD-2. This part of the program Headline worked so well that on the phone last doubts have disappeared: LCD-2 - truly outstanding "ears". Strict control in the low register went only benefit - sound became academic. Middle register sounded perfect, almost no tint inherent in these headphones. And the upper band ennobled finest fast dynamics. Appeared all that sometimes lacked - including the drive, courage and a real buzz from the music.

Listening with headphones Denon AH-A100 Anniversary Edition. Result fundamentally different, but also very impressive. All power is concentrated in the lower register, but the bass this does not become heavy, "overfed", but only gets a pleasant impulsiveness. At the same time as it frees space for the formation of solid full-length images in the middle lane, minimizing paint. It is with Naim phones Denon demonstrate the highest resolution in the upper register, and sound like the best open models.

Listening with headphones Sennheiser HD 800. But this pair, I confess, we expected more. Thought now HD 800 will manifest themselves in full splendor, but the sound was moderately emotional, rather technical, than plastic. Middle register has not lost the main thing - the highest clarity and realism. Scene still put on the scale. But on the edges of the frequency range of new revelations not found. Bass tight, neat, but some deflating. And the top seemed a bit tinted.

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