SPL Phonitor se Headphone Amplifiers Overview:

The Phonitor se is focused on the essentials – without compromising on quality.It has the same audio signal amplification as its bigger brothers Phonitor x and Phonitor xe.With the optional DA converter, it can also play from digital sources.The Phonitor Matrix provides two of the most common Phonitor Matrix settings as switchable presets. It lets you experience music on headphones as being played back through speakers.Thanks to VOLTAiR technology in the highest sound quality.Everything under controlThe volume is adjusted with a massive, milled aluminum, rotary knob. The Alps RK27 “Big Blue” potentiometer gives a pleasant “spoon in the honey” rotary feel.In addition to an analog source, three additional digital sources can be connected to the Phonitor se with the optional DAC768xs.Headphone Output with PowerThe Phonitor se offers a 6.35 mm jack for connecting headphones with jack plug.Up to 2 x 5 watts of output power is available at this socket. This allows even very power-hungry headphones such as magnetostats or electrostats to be driven effortlessly.The Revolution: Phonitor-MatrixThe Phonitor Matrix is the revolution in the headphone amplifierThanks to the Phonitor Matrix, music can be experienced on headphones as if it was played on speakers. The tiring super stereo effect is a thing of the past.Enjoy music without listening fatigue and exactly the way it should be heardUnlike the bigger Phonitor models, where the “Angle” switch can be used to select the opening angle of the stereo stage, this parameter is fixed at a default value of 30° for the Phonitor se. The “Crossfeed” parameter can be set in two stages – “C1” and “C2”. “C2” provides higher crosstalk/crossfeed than “C1”.Music is normally produced and mixed for playback on stereo speakers.Listening on headphones is different from listening on loudspeakers. The biggest difference is the lack of crossing signals of the sound signal from the left speaker to the right ear and from the right speaker to the left ear. These crossing signals are missing in conventional headphone listening, because there are no signals crossing from one side of the headphones to the other.This results in an unnaturally wide stereo image and the various sound sources of the audio signal are not localized as the sound engineer intended them to. This effect is often referred to as “super stereo effect”. During conventional listening on headphones, our brain can balance the false representation of the playback to a certain extent – but this is very exhausting.The SPL Phonitor Matrix can correct this false stereo image with an analog circuitry. The Phonitor Matrix therefore not only ensures a correct representation of the stereo image, but alSource of joyThe Phonitor se is equipped with gold-plated RCA sockets for the analog input.The optional DAC768xs adds three more digital sources: USB, COAX und OPTICAL.PCM audio is received in S/P-DIF format, both coaxial (RCA) and optical (Toslink F06).Both PCM audio and DSD audio can be converted via USB.The DAC automatically picks up the sampling rate and resolution of the digital playback source. No matter if a streamer, computer or CD player is connected. No further settings on the Phonitor se are necessary.