{"id":134047,"date":"2023-10-26T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=134047"},"modified":"2023-10-27T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:25:15","slug":"vincent-kxb-200-hybrid-headphone-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/vincent-kxb-200-hybrid-headphone-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent KHV-200: Hybrid Headphone Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headphone amplifier, in addition to semi-conductor elements, uses 2 low-noise E180F \/ 6SCH9P pentodes, and an ECC82 vacuum triode.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6119 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image002_cr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Vincent KHV-200 external headphone amplifier was created in collaboration with engineer Frank Bl\u00f6hbau. The scheme of the amplifier is compatible with almost all headphones. In addition to a 6.3mm headphone jack, the KXB-200 also has a 4-pin XLR connector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KHV-200 fulfills the frequency range: 20 Hz &#8211; 20 kHz with unevenness of \u00b1 0.1 dB and harmonic distortion not worse than 0.01% at a frequency of 1 kHz, power 0.1 W and load impedance 32 Ohm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6121 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image005.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This achieved a signal-to-noise ratio of&gt; 95 dB.\u00a0There are three headphone gain modes with different impedances: nominal, low and high.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6122 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image004_cr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KHV-200 is equipped with outputs: 1 x stereo RCA (PRE OUT), 1 x stereo RCA (REC OUT), 1 x stereo headphone jack 6, 3 mm, 1 x Headphene XLR, 4-pin stereo. The built-in power supply unit operates with voltages of 230 V \/ 50 Hz or 115 V \/ 50\/60 Hz. The body of the amplifier can be black or silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headphone amplifier, in addition to semi-conductor elements, uses 2 low-noise E180F \/ 6SCH9P pentodes, and an ECC82 vacuum triode. The Vincent KHV-200 external headphone amplifier was created in collaboration with engineer Frank Bl\u00f6hbau. The scheme of the amplifier is compatible with almost all headphones. In addition to a 6.3mm headphone jack, the KXB-200 also [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/vincent-kxb-200-hybrid-headphone-amplifier\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":134053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-134047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}