{"id":145659,"date":"2023-10-23T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=145659"},"modified":"2023-10-24T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T23:50:13","slug":"sparkos-labs-aries-classic-headphone-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/sparkos-labs-aries-classic-headphone-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"SparkoS Labs Aries: Classic Headphone Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SparkoS Labs releases an interesting\u00a0Aries\u00a0headphone amplifier model\u00a0, which completely lacks digital circuits.<\/p>\n<p>The main emphasis is placed on the high quality of the analog part.\u00a0A securely shielded toroidal transformer is installed in the power supply, the volume control is built on a Reed switch, and capacitors are excluded from the signal circuits.\u00a0To connect signal sources, only analog inputs are provided, and the amplifier is available in two versions &#8211; unbalanced with RCA connectors and balanced with XLR.<\/p>\n<p>The user can adjust the input sensitivity (+10, +20 or +30 dB) for better compatibility with different headphone models.\u00a0All service information, including the volume level, is displayed on the screen on the front panel.\u00a0All operational amplifiers used in the model are of the company&#8217;s own production.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/38_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sparkoslabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SparkoS Labs Aries<\/a>\u00a0Headphone Amplifier is available\u00a0in the US market for a retail price\u00a0of $2,495\u00a0unbalanced and\u00a0$2,995\u00a0balanced.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SparkoS Labs releases an interesting\u00a0Aries\u00a0headphone amplifier model\u00a0, which completely lacks digital circuits. The main emphasis is placed on the high quality of the analog part.\u00a0A securely shielded toroidal transformer is installed in the power supply, the volume control is built on a Reed switch, and capacitors are excluded from the signal circuits.\u00a0To connect signal sources, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/sparkos-labs-aries-classic-headphone-amplifier\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":145660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-145659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145659","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=145659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}