AX8 First Impressions

[Plexi12xxx]

Plexi...have you had a chance to run through your PA yet?

Not yet. Still have some stray visitors. Should clear out by Friday. Then there is the wife..............

 

[FractalAudio]

Tell me about it - finally got everyone gone so I could play with my new toy. Anyway, I use the Objective 2 Head Phone amp. You will not find anything like it for the price. I actually built mine - bought the PCB and case from link below, components from Mouser. I enjoy building stuff so this was a no brainer. You can buy the complete amp at the link below. The specs are incredible. Do a search on Google and you can find the guy who designed it with all the related articles and how the O2 came to be. I think I spent around $75 or so. But then I added the ODAC and managed to stuff it in the same case. It is battery powered and very compact and sounds incredible - no color - just perfect amplification - talk about FRFR - this is it for phones. (Read the specs)

https://www.jdslabs.com/products/35/objective2-headphone-amplifier/

Checked out the schematic for that and it's very similar to the headphone amp in the Axe-Fx II.

 

[Nickaudette]

My AX8 is coming Tuesday, can't wait!! Will be connecting to my Scarlett 2i2 that has two jbl lsr 305s connected to it.

 

[Plexi12xxx]

Checked out the schematic for that and it's very similar to the headphone amp in the Axe-Fx II.

I had a hunch you might be interested and no surprise an equivalent circuit is found in the AXE/FX.