
The TR-Amp headphone amp uses the Texas Instruments High Fidelity TPA6120 chip and it allows the music, not the amplifier, to be heard. That’s right, the TR-Amp is a licensed and standard-compliant MQA native hardware renderer! The dedicated product page of the TR-Amp can be found here: Īt the core of the TR-Amp we find the ES9038Q2M Sabre DAC, and the audio input accepts PCM up to 768kHz, DSD256 via DoP, native DSD512 and MQA. In this preview we’re looking at the EarMen TR-Amp, a transportable DAC/AMP and pre-amp unit with a 3.5mm and 6.3mm output. If you want to find out more about EarMen, you can do so here: All of EarMen’s products are designed and engineered by Miki Trosic, renowned throughout the audio industry as the founder of Auris Audio. The goal of EarMen is to make powerfull audio components elegantly designed for simple plug & play use.
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The Sparrow name? Now that one is a bit different, but I’ll explain that once we feature it here on the site. When Jason Stoddard launched Schiit Audio they quickly became famous because of the particular name, and EarMen is doing something a like with unit names such as the Tramp and Donald Dac.


EarMen is all about delivering the best possible value for money and their new product line-up consists out of 3 models:
