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Ray Samuel's The Shadow - Headphone Amp Review and Unboxing

2012-06-23
hey everybody this is a review of Ray Samuel audios the shadow it's a smaller portable headphone amp that works well with in-ear monitors I just want to give you a quick unboxing to show you what it's like it comes with a really nice small box so you can see here some nice graphics there as well and we open it up you can see it comes with multiple power adapters rubber or whatever country you may be in this box it will make MIMO and the power supply here fits that universal adapter piece goes to a mini USB Jack this is the ampère in this nice robideaux bag and then just a little bit of literature on the on the device itself as far as the amp is concerned I wanted things I just wanted to really show you guys was size of this thing there's the front and this is the front as well there's a tiny little switch here that you can see lights up red when it's on and this has a stick volume knob the volume knob it's a little bit gradual but does a good job race is that there's no capacitors in the path through this machine and that leads to better sound quality and from what I've heard from this AMPA I do think it delivers on on high resolution high-five quality special appearing in ear monitors really considering the size but how big it is obviously the output there on the back the input so there's no deck inside this is just a headphone amplifier there is a battery obviously that charges and it can play straight through your witness plugged in there's a red LED that lights up when it's on charging and it goes off when it's not charging and it does can it can be charged directly through a USB port on a computer so I just want to give you guys a shot of that look at it here's a piece of perspective for you as a health small this thing really this is the Sennheiser 650 look at the size of that difference I mean this thing can truly fit in your pocket really great little lamp that as far as the sound is concerned I did notice especially within ear monitors the customs they have a great bet they've much more expensive soundscape which seems a lot wider and a lot deeper than then allow the other amplifiers I have one of the hard things with in ear monitors is you know finding something that doesn't because they're so sensitive that doesn't play a lot of distortion or background noise has a really black background at low levels that's what those things need and this thing definitely delivers on that it can power mid sized headphones it didn't have any trouble pushing the Sennheiser 650 s you see here at all but I mean it really shines within ear monitors a lot of the Dax unless even with the ones with low middle or high gain settings sometimes have a little bit of issues with a sense really sensitive headphones like in-ear monitors and this I really didn't experience any with which is really the amazing thing I mean considering the size of this and the size of in-ear monitors and portability you know this is a really good match for those kind of things it can sit right on your desk obviously or even fit it in your pocket so it's a pretty fun piece I really if you're engineering ear monitors or just looking for one of the smallest high fidelity headphone amplifiers out there I really strongly suggest you check this thing on I'm really quite impressed with it the full review is available at our do - head comm so check it out guys thanks a lot until next time
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