HiFiMAN Goldenwave PRELUDE | Desktop Class A Headphone Amp

HiFiMAN’s PRELUDE Reference Desktop Amp Sets the Standard for Music Lovers Seeking Full Range Sonics

• Fully balanced Class A headphone amplifier
• Single-ended Balanced conversion
• ALPS Potentiometer ensures complete and accurate channel balance
• 4.4mm Balanced out, XLR Balanced in + out, RCA in + out, and 6.3mm out

Features

Full Balanced Class A Headphone Amplifier
With MOS-FET high current output, PRELUDE’s fully discrete architecture features a precise, single-ended balance conversion circuit that renders the single-ended RCA input balanced fully balanced.

The input stage employs a fully balanced amplifier architecture, with precise, single-ended/balanced conversion. The pre-amplifier circuit is independent, adopting a class A output structure, with excellent power and natural timbre.

ALPS Potentiometer
The potentiometer ensures complete and accurate channel balance.

Clean Power
A customized high-power, low-noise toroidal transformer, with multi-channel high-speed low-noise voltage regulator circuit, supplies power for the headphone amplifier and a fully balanced headphone protection circuit.

Aluminum Chassis
The housing is manufactured from a single piece of aluminum which helps isolate harmful resonance that negatively affects sonic output.

Specifications

• Dimensions: 13″ x 2.2″ x 10.2″
• Weight: 14.3 lbs
• Outputs
  • 4.4mm Balanced
  • XLR 4-pin Balanced
  • Combo Dual (L/R) XLR 3-pin / 6.3mm
  • (Pre-Amp) L/R XLR 3-pin Balanced
  • (Pre-Amp) L/R RCA
• Rear Inputs: L/R RCA, L/R XLR 3-pin Balanced
• Frequency Response: 20-50KHz
• SNR: -113dB @1KHz
• Power Output: (0.1% @1KHz BAL) 10W @32Ω, 6W @64Ω, 2.5W @150Ω, 1W @300Ω, 560mW @600Ω
• Total Power Consumption: < 50W
• THD+N: 0.0009% low gain @1KHz
• HiFiMAN PRELUDE User Manual
• HiFiMAN 1 Year Warranty