The "black art" of headphone amplification...
Oh yes it is! But going on the specmanship and sheer number of headphone amp
brands anybody would think headphone amplification is easy. But it's a lucrative
market and everyone wants in on the act. Even the chip manufacturers have
trouble. Take this as a warning or better still choose a headphone amp from the
masters of the "black art". Read on...
At the forefront of headphone amplifier development before the rest!
10 years before the existence of the Head-Fi headphone forum
(launched 2001) Graham Slee was "backroom boy" (senior engineer to be
precise) with a design brief to design a headphone amplifier for
studio technicians. A year later in 1992 he designed a post production
broadcast audio quality mixer with its own built-in headphone
amplifier, which was met with applause by its musician users for its
superb headphone performance.
In 2001 Graham Slee made a better headphone amplifier - the Solo!
The design based on his musicians mixer headphone stage won instant
praise from everyone who heard it.
The Graham Slee range of headphone amplifiers are set apart from
the rest by the fact that a Graham Slee headphone amplifier
is designed for the most demanding headphone reproduction - in the
studio where tonal and stereo accuracy are paramount! To quote one studio engineer "the Solo takes
the guesswork out of finding editing points".
With awards for every headphone amplifier in our line-up -
including What Hi-Fi best headphone amplifier for three consecutive
years - why look elsewhere?
Export Stars
The Graham Slee headphone amplifier range has been responsible for
the lions share of the £1m of UK exports* by Graham Slee Projects Ltd
over the last 5 years. Demand for the involving sound of our headphone
amplifiers from China and South East Asia grows year on year.
* verifiable by accounts
