{"id":177712,"date":"2024-01-05T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=177712"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:05:22","slug":"ustard-h26-balanced-class-a-headphone-amplifier-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/ustard-h26-balanced-class-a-headphone-amplifier-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"GUSTARD H26: Balanced class A headphone amplifier launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUSTARD has started selling a new model of\u00a0the\u00a0H26\u00a0desktop headphone amplifier ,\u00a0made using a fully symmetrical circuit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/>Eight pairs of selected transistors operate in the output stage; the pre-amplifier section includes two\u00a0LME49720\u00a0op-amps .\u00a0The volume control is made on a resistive matrix, while the power amplifier can be completely turned off, which allows the model to work as a pure pre-amplifier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/>The power supply is built on two custom\u00a050 Watt\u00a0toroidal transformers , one for each channel,\u00a0Nichico\u00a0n capacitors are used in the filter.\u00a0The maximum output power at normalized distortion is\u00a06000 mW\u00a0into 32 ohms.\u00a0To connect headphones, the device has three jacks &#8211; unbalanced 6.35 mm, balanced 4.4 mm and four-pin XLR.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/9_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The GUSTARD H26\u00a0headphone amplifier\u00a0comes in two colors and is available to order online.<\/p>\n<p>Price: <b>$1,150<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUSTARD has started selling a new model of\u00a0the\u00a0H26\u00a0desktop headphone amplifier ,\u00a0made using a fully symmetrical circuit. Eight pairs of selected transistors operate in the output stage; the pre-amplifier section includes two\u00a0LME49720\u00a0op-amps .\u00a0The volume control is made on a resistive matrix, while the power amplifier can be completely turned off, which allows the model to work [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/ustard-h26-balanced-class-a-headphone-amplifier-launched\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":177717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-177712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177712","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=177712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}