MSB's new Premier Headphone Amplifier

[CKKeung]

A prototype has been made and demoed in Japan :




The black colour headamp in the above photos is the Premier Headamp prototype.
It's said to be superior to most headamps in the market, except its two elder brothers.


BTW it has one very intriguing feature : it does NOT have a volume control!

 

[Addicted to hifi]

A prototype has been made and demoed in Japan :

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The black colour headamp in the above photos is the Premier Headamp prototype.
It's said to be superior to most headamps in the market, except its two elder brothers.


BTW it has one very intriguing feature : it does NOT have a volume control!

Nice.how does it work without a volume control?

 

[Mike Lavigne]

BTW it has one very intriguing feature : it does NOT have a volume control!

Nice.how does it work without a volume control?

MSB Headphone amps are designed to be integrated into the MSB Dacs, which do have a volume control, a very very fine one. it's a one button toggle (can be done with the dac remote) back and forth outputting to my speaker pre or the headphone amp. very slick interface as you would expect from MSB.......nothing clunky. my guess is no headphone amp has a volume control on par with what the MSB dacs have.

i have my Select Electrostatic Headphone amp integrated with my Select II dac.

MSB Select II arrival

I never power off my MSB SII/M500's, I put them into stand-bye every night. In the morning it takes about an hour for the system to get to it's best.

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you can use MSB Headphone amps without an MSB dac but need to supply a separate volume control. there are multiple ways to do that, here is one.....which i decided to buy. but have not yet used it. i was going to use it when i wanted to listen to my laptop through my headphones, but i found another work around, i input my laptop into the analog inputs my MSB dac and switch inputs on the dac passive pre. i could also use a USB from my laptop into another digital input on my dac for even better sound. but then i would need a second MSB Pro input module which i could also do but have not yet. lots of choices.

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hard to beat the system integration choices with MSB. not cheap, but they cover a lot of bases at a high level of performance and their investment can be justified.

 

[CKKeung]

Mike is 100% correct.
Pairing it with MSB dac which all got excellent volume control is the intention of MSB.
The Japanese who listened to the prototype thought that the absence of the volume control has made the Premier Headamp to give better sonic performance.

 

[CKKeung]

Mono & Stereo © 2023: NEW MSB TECHNOLOGY PREMIER HEADPHONE AMP

 

[CKKeung]

 

[CKKeung]

This is interesting :

 

[bryans]

The premier headphone amp is one serious piece of gear. I don't own headphones but if I did, I would have to give it a run.

 

[bryans]

One thing I noticed is the DAC and headphone amp have their name engraved on the front. I guess this is a new change to the DAC.