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Doesn’t she look pretty? I call her “Ampy”. :D

Okay…I’m totally lying about the name…

Anyway, as you all may know, I’ve become something of an audiophile as of late (It’s all Head-Fi’s fault, I swear!) and what audiophile worth his salt doesn’t have a tube amplifier? Well, the hundreds, even thousands of dollars it costs to get a typical tube amplifier and regular maintenance in the form of buying new tubes when old ones burn out (they’re just like light bulbs, but they don’t last as long…) is well out of my price range so I did some digging and found this little guy, A Bravo Amplifier V2, which uses a single 12AU7 tube to process both its input and output stages. I won’t bore you with any of the technical details beyond that but I can say that this sounds pretty great so far with all of the headphones and IEMs I’ve tested with it so I’m very pleased. I also hear it opens up quite nicely with better tubes so I’ll be looking into that as well.

I will be writing a full review on this little amp in the near future so stay tuned for a link to that on my music related blog Musical Musings.

And, as a little bonus, here’s a couple of pictures of the Sansa Fuze I’ve been using as my go-to portable player recently, consisting of my trusty RE0s and a Fiio E3 amp.

Yeah…I know I’m crazy. :)