I'm EveAnna Manley from Manley Labs and we're here with Moon Audio. Today I'm
going to show y'all our brand new Manley Absolute headphone amplifier. So this
puppy is built in the USA - fully. It comes in three colors: This is the copper one, black
and silver. What's cool about this headphone amp? There's a lot of cool,
interesting things. It's got a relay attenuator here, which is the best way to
control volume. You've got perfect left/right matching.
In the case you ever needed to alter the left/right balance, there's a balance
control. Oh, my goodness! There's also a little EQ here, so you can
switch it in and you've got bass and treble tone controls. Boost and cut.
Some of the more unique features here - this one's my favorite, the verbal feedback
knob. Negative feedback in electronics is used to correct the
circuitry, so you'll measure better and sound better.
However, we let you alter the amount of feedback that's supplied. So you can go up
to 10 dBs of negative feedback, and it sounds kind of more maybe "2-D" sounding.
It's a little warmer and richer and calmed down. And then when you take off the
negative feedback to 0 DBs of negative feedback then it's
really raucous and in your face, you know. Maybe if you're listening to metal music
and you want to rock out, you can play with that knob. Or if you're listening to
something a little calmer and you just want a very intimate experience
you can change this on the fly. Another thing you can change on the fly, because the
output tube topology - so you can switch from push-pull to single ended on this button.
It's gonna mute while it's switching for just a few seconds. And that's
really, you know, like even order harmonics versus odd. And so you, again,
you get a very different experience and you might change it for different songs
or different types of music. You know what I tell guys, it's
like, the Headphone Police are not going to come and arrest you for any settings,
like oh my god, you've got some bass boost, oh you're going to audio jail, you
know. Whatever you want the sound to sound like, that's up to you and it's
between you and the headphones. You can listen to it however you want. One real cool
thing about this product is it can be used as a preamplifier. And there's a
remote control that comes with it. This button here.
It's radio frequency, so you can hear the relays clicking in this unit. I could go
walk outside this hall and it still works. You don't have to point and
shoot it, it works all through your house. There's a set of RCA output
jacks, if you come around the back here. On the back you've got - so for
the inputs you've got two sets of RCA inputs, and then on the outputs you've
got your conventional quarter inch jack, you've got your balanced headphone jack,
and then you have a set of RCA outputs. So this, you can use this unit like a
preamplifier and you can send this to your main speaker system if you want to
drive some power amps. Another thing you can do if you push and hold the power
button here, it'll go into a special bypass mode that auto
routes these RCA jacks to the RCA output jacks, and so again if you wanted to
maintain your sources here and feed another system or feed another device
or another headphone amp, you can do that, too. So it's really flexible.
Fully made in America, like I said, and beyond everything, this thing
sounds so damn good. So I welcome you to get in touch with Moon Audio and try them out.