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February 16, 2012 4 min read
Ever since a loyal customer made it a blip on our radar and we watched some product videos on SPL’s website, we’ve been dying to get our hands on the SPL Phonitor headphone amp. Finally a few weeks after Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2011, the Phonitor and little brother the Auditor showed up at HeadRoom. Within moments the headphone geeks had swarmed the shipping room like ravens on road kill! BUT WAIT! We had pre-orders for both amps so we didn’t even get to open the boxes! Worse yet, “management” wasn’t sure we should buy one for internal use (...be sure to say “management” in your most whining ‘I didn’t get what I wanted’ voice). After many extensively formulated reasons/excuses/”pretty pretty pleases” from our sales department, our illustrious leader and newly appointed CEO Ivy finally gave us the go-ahead. HeadRoom’s new Phonitor amp is now nestled snugly next to my HeadRoom UDAC and DPS which are aptly feeding it pristine analog signal. Once we got it set up and gave it some burn-in time, we hooked up our blind A-B rig, turned all available imaging adjustments off, and put the Phonitor, with an internal discreet power supply, against the HeadRoom BUDA and Desktop Power Supply (DPS). We utilized the single-ended output of the BUDA with Crossfeed off to keep the comparison as close as possible.
[caption id="attachment_2379" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Our blind A-B Test Rig, consisting of two sets of RCA inputs with a selector switch and a single headphone output soldered to a circuit board, allows us to connect two sources to one set of headphones and provides the ability to switch between the sources for seamless testing."][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2381" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="SPL Phonitor"][/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2382" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="SPL Auditor"][/caption]
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