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hey guys are you another review and unboxing from audio head here today we have the Pan Am by Al alo audio that's a headphone amplifier and a USB DAC as you can see we have quite a few boxes to go through with this unveiling so let's get started the first thing I want to show you is the amp itself as you can see this is just the top unit it is a tube driven amplifier with headphones out you can see it has the small and large volume control high and low gain and this is the on/off switch with an amber light here on the back we have a selector here for two analog inputs the RCA's and the mini jack and this is the entrance to the USB for the internal DAC here we have the power supply in addition to plugging into the supplied wall wart this particular unit has the options to have an external power supply called the gateway here and the passport being external battery that actually stacked below which I'll show you a little bit later just to give you a feel what's inside the box for this one we also have to tube covers fit over just like that so if you don't want to burn your hand or you want to do a little storage for this thing while it's on your desk those do come included with the package which is nice so that is a next I'll show you what comes with the accessories as you can see with this I'm actually really impressed with the way the packaging if you guys follow the channel you know that I'm a big stickler for packaging really nice packaging I think it's one of the lost art forms in marketing that's left but maybe a nod to Apple which I always think does a really good job these guys have really bumped up the packaging on these ones too you can see the fonts a little better branding there it's kind of interesting each side magnets actually hold this paper down this is like a nice heavy cardboard stock with a matte finish black very very cool and the whole thing works really well and I external sleeve as you can see here covers it and I said before magnets allow it to open so it's pretty fun this is the accessory box this is the the power supply that comes free with the amp so this is your standard as you can see in there Walmart that's basically the kit that comes with just the head just the amp if you use it this power cord goes with the external power supply here the gateway which I'll show you just a little bit so that's what comes in the accessory box the Gateway here as you can see each box contains a small pamphlet with some additional information and then a user guide out in the back this is the power supply has your standard switch and your standard power input there and then this is the twelfth volt output that can go to the Pan Am it also comes included with a couple varying lengths of these connectors to the power supply so you have short one a long one and a medium one as you can see this puppy fits neatly on top of this so if you were to let me not try to drop this the standard small length actually fits perfectly this length from here to here so now I just like to comment while I'm on the Gateway that within ear monitors I did notice a blacker background and less humming and noising with the use of this external so you know I can say if you're gonna use the within ear monitors I would suggest picking up either this unit the Gateway if you like to plug it in or if you want to go with a battery the passport these actually will daisy chain into each other so if you want to go the full mile you can get a triple stack and go external power supply into the battery then into the unit itself we'll just kind of fun they'll stack on top of each other here so let me move this thing out of the way the last but not least the passport as you can see card user guide same type of packaging same type of look you can see the three power cuts are also supplied with this unit to the external battery so that's nice you get with both this one's a little more just standard this interestingly enough has an input and output from both of these power supplies so you charge it into here but you can also plug the power into here indirectly back into the unit itself so this one is input and output for power however if you're going to daisy chain them together the power supply goes into here and then you take the longer cord and put that output into the back of the PanAm i'll put together the stack really quick quickly here for you show you what it looks like from the back so that is the stack let get some light over here so this is what it looks like from the back if we rotate this around this is what looks like from the front so it's a nice neat little thing it doesn't the footprint I don't know if you guys can get a good perspective here but this is not a huge unit I mean as far as two bands go this thing has got some great scale to it very nice um as far as the sound is concerned I just know to noticed doodles of detail really great texture and in really great bass response as well as balanced bass across a spectrum really even highs really nice meds very lush I'm extremely impressed with the way this thing performed I really like the deck itself it does a decent job I compared it to the deck mini it's it's it I would say it it's it's very nice it's a little more larger than than the deck many however I did think that the deck manie's DAC section was just a little bit a little bit of an edge over the deck section here but really nothing you know you've probably ever noticed if you're just using this thing on your desktop so it is a beautiful lamp it does does land on a bit of the pricey side the top unit here alone is seven hundred dollars retail currently so it's not the least expensive unit out there however it is fairly nice I really enjoy this line is from the sound if you have the spare change it might be something you want to look at because it really performs pretty pretty well with both in-ear monitors really the high sensitive things that you can plug directly in there and then full-size headphones I drove it with a pair of LCD 3s and I've heard that it works up to 600 Romed phones without much problem so if you're looking for an all-in-one combo unit a DAC integrated with a pretty good headphone amplifier this may be something you really want to kind of give a test run if you get the chance for what it does it is one of the best if you guys have any questions leave a comment in the comment section subscribe if you can have a good one