AUDEZE
AUDEZE - DECKARD Class-A AMP/DAC Headphone Amplifier
If music is an important part of your life you deserve to hear the real thing. The Deckard is a powerhouse of a headphone amplifier combined with a high-performance DAC. There’s a front panel volume control and switches to choose gain and input so you can use the Deckard as a great line-level preamp to drive your whole desktop system. The sound is exciting and dynamic with beautifully rendered tonal colors that make music come alive.
"For price-to-performance ratio, it's a standout. Combines a highly resolving analog preamp with as little or as much gain as any sane person will need. Recommended? You bet!"
Exclusive DAC and amplifier technology
The DAC section has impressive specs and handles 16 to 32-bits and 44.1kHz to 384kHz sampling rates. The Deckard features a single-ended class-A output stage with good damping characteristics to control the strong and tuneful bass. Its power handling capabilities at lower impedances is ideal for planar magnetic headphones, but It drives any headphone with power to spare.
Engineered and handcrafted in our California factory
The style and build quality is simply outstanding, the brushed aluminum finish and heft of the Deckard is substantial. The Deckard has input and gain settings with a smooth-turning volume control and puts out 4W of incredibly low-distortion sound for more air, separation and soundstaging abilities.
Cutting-edge industrial design by BMW’s i8 team
You’ll not only be proud of how the Deckard sounds, it also looks striking on the desktop with beautifully machined heatsinks down each side. Our strategic partner Designworks, a BMW group subsidiary, provided the industrial design for the Deckard. Audeze combined their cutting-edge designs with our own circuit technologies to create an astonishingly accurate sounding headphone amplifier.
AUDEZE - THE KING Class-A Hybrid Tube/Mosfet Headphone Amplifier
xxx Brand: Audeze
Product Code: AUDEZE - THE KING Class-A Hybrid Tube/Mosfet Headphone Amplifier
The King Headphone Amplifier, created exclusively for Audeze by legendary circuit builder Bascom King, especially matched with our flagship LCD-4 headphone, produces a powerful, dynamic and panoramic sound with awesome power in the bass. Upon first listen many are shocked by the tremendous sense of space; enveloping you-are-there sound that’ll make you jump! The King’s sound is so clean and engaging that you’ll turn up the volume to enjoy the immense transparency and palpable imaging. The utter pleasure The King delivers is totally addicting.
“It's just you and the music with amazing detail, awesome dynamic range, and the best midrange I've ever heard.” - Dan Gheorghe, Headmania
It’s good to be King!
Exclusive amplifier technology
The King was designed exclusively for Audeze by legendary circuit builder Bascom King. It’s a two-stage hybrid design featuring a pair of twin-triode E88CCs input tubes, a differential P-MOSFET driver, and MOSFET output devices. The King uses NPN MOSFETs that allow perfect device matching that yields faster response times. The amplifier exhibits low impedance, low distortion, and wide frequency response along with its 6W of music power, characteristics that create a breathtakingly spacious and emotional listening experience.
Engineered and handcrafted in our California factory
The King’s anodized casework is beautifully done and solid as a vault. The side panels are fully 1/2" thick, the top and bottom 1/4" thick, featuring a 5/8" thick clear-coated front panel. All active components are "faraday cage" shielded along with the AC input to reduce RFI. The front-panel meters are engineered to reflect actual SPLs and power levels when used with the LCD-4.
The King Effect
Bascom King’s exclusive design for Audeze includes such perfectionist elements as left and right channels on separate PCBs, each with its own voltage regulators. Each PCB features a protective shield of perforated, powder-coated magnetic material. The toroidal transformer is massively oversized, molded in epoxy and shielded to further improve signal-to-noise ratio. A DC servo circuit between input and output stages keeps DC offset as close to zero as possible. And a symmetrical regulated power supply delivers ±16V DC to the output devices and there are no capacitors in the signal path resulting in virtually flat frequency response.