SPL Phonitor Mini Headphone Amplifier

Phonitor Mini Headphone Amplifier:

Phonitor Mini Headphone Amplifier. Used with my Sennheiser HD800 headphones,
this is an amazing personal listening experience! The Phonitor is from SPL, a European pro-audio
equipment manufacturer, well known in the pro-audio space. Because of the Phonitor Mini’s 120v rail
technology, it will drive nearly every set of headphones out there, including the
difficult ones, with great sonic results. This unit is in mint condition and less than 6 months old (I am original
purchaser).  I have put a new integrated amplifier
with a “headphone-out” in my system and no longer will need the Phonitor.  Sadly it will go but happily to someone that
will enjoy it!

From the SPL website:

“The Model 1320 Phonitor Mini from SPL is a
headphone amplifier which utilizes 120 volt technology for headphone monitor
listening. This is a scaled-down version of the SPL Phonitor. It's smaller,
designed to be easy to use, and features a solid housing, and, of course, is at
a lower and more affordable price. This amp can be utilized by home studios,
hi-fi enthusiasts and due to its diminished size, mobile recording mixing.



The Phonitor Mini features the Phonitor Matrix, to help recreate speaker-like
working conditions through headphones, and has evolved as the second generation
SPL 120 volt amplifier technology. As the little brother of the Phonitor 2, its
sonic characteristics were translated into a more compact and less-expensive
format to help create the Mini.



Home users can now get a headphone amplifier to enjoy sound reproduction with
headphones in a different way. Headphones usually provide a 180-degree stereo
image (the Super Stereo effect). Generally speaking, music is mixed so that all
instruments are reproduced correctly in their position when the loudspeakers
form a stereo triangle. Thus, headphone reproduction is different then what was
intended during the recording process. The side component becomes too important
during playback, and effects like delay and reverb are reproduced in an
exaggerated way. The position of instruments and vocals in the stereo image is
pushed further apart. All in all, the sound is not as authentic anymore. With
the Phonitor Matrix, music playback with headphones is engineered to become
more as it is meant to be heard.



Studio engineers will find in the Phonitor mini a useful amplifier. On the one
side, there is the traditional, analytical work with headphones as with a
magnifying glass, which can be done always bearing in mind the lack of room
influence. Working with a magnifying glass has its advantages when it comes to
discovering noises, clicks and crackles, assessing edits, or spotting problems of
single tracks. So this can work well with quality controlling a project. On the
other side, the Phonitor Matrix is designed to make it possible to correctly
determine the position of sound sources in the mix closer to the sound that
would come from a set of speakers. Spatial information and effects are more
easily appraised, since the impression of the stereo width created is not the
180-degree one usually heard with headphones, but rather that like music being
played back through monitoring speakers in the control room.



The foundations of this development is our 120 Volt reference technology:
developed and manufactured op-amps that run on an operating voltage of 120
volts, which corresponds to approximately twice that of most modern analog
audio semiconductor technologies. Due to the approximately double voltage of
the 120-volt circuitry and processing, higher dynamic range and headroom are
possible, with less noise.”

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