In-akustik Premium Headphone Amp No.1

摘要

The first question I asked when I was handed the prosaically-named In-akustik Headphone Amp No.1 was: 'Are you sure it's in the box?' You see, this USB/line-input battery-powered amp from the German cables-to-loudspeakers-to-music company is not only tiny, easily fitting in the palm of the hand, but also almost vanishingly light, at just 90g - quite a bit of which is presumably accounted for by its internal 950mAh lithium-ion battery. Of course there's no shortage of compact headphone amps for portable use on the market, from the likes of the USB-Stick AudioQuest DragonFly [HFN Mar '14] to the somewhat chunkier Denon DA-10, the latter dwarfing the In-akustik in every dimension. And it's not hard to see their appeal: they can be used on the desktop either at home or on the road, and also connected to the likes of smartphones and tablets by way of sonic upgrade.