GUSTARD H26 Preamplifier Headphone Amp

*********** AVAILABLE FOR DEMO ********* The Gustard H26 is a Class A balanced audiophile preamplifier/headphone amplifier with discrete components. It contains 8 pairs of power transistors, a relay volume control matrix, two dual LME49720 AOPs (interchangeable), two toroidal transformers, based on a balanced architecture. Aesthetically, it is very similar to the other products in the Gustard "26" series - with beautiful curves and solid materials. H26 in brief * Completely balanced architecture * Ultra low output impedance * Delivers plenty of output power to power even the slowest powered headphones * Output power - 7350mW@64Ω, 3125mW@150Ω, 1576mW@300Ω, 788mW@600Ω * Inputs - 1x RCA stereo and 2x XLR balanced * Outputs - Headphone: 4-pin XLR (balanced), 4.4mm (balanced), 6.35mm, Preamplifier: 1x Stereo RCA , 1x XLR stereo balanced The package includes: * 1x Gustard H26 * 1x remote control * 1x power cable Please read more about this on this user forum - HeadFi Gustard H26 . "The Gustard H26 surprised me in a very nice kind of way. This solidly built headphone amplifier offers a pleasingly smooth and refined tonal quality with a strong focus on spatial detail, all delivered within a very spacious presentation. It is hard to believe that this type of performance and feature excellence can be found at this price point in 2024. Everything just keeps getting more and more expensive these days. Sure, we have cheaper highly neutral headphone amplifiers from the likes of Topping and SMSL for maybe half or even less but none of them sound this ‘regal’ if I may call it that. None of them gel so wonderfully well with such a wide range of headphones." Headfonics (Jul 2024)