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Description
Cayin HA-3A
The HA-3A headphone amplifier lets you enjoy your beloved music through your choice of headphones, with the organic warmth and lushness of vacuum tubes and the visual beauty of VU meters.
It may look compact and simple, but Cayin has devoted its renowned engineering, decades of audio equipment manufacturing experience, and carefully selected performance-based components to bring this amplifier to the market.
Clean Power
HA-3A uses an RCA 25AX4GT as rectifier tube. While converting the incoming power source to DC current, this rectifier tube minimises interference and provides clean power to the amplification circuit.
Carefully Selected and Hand-matched Vacuum Tubes
HA-3A includes the following vacuum tubes from the factory.
Driver Tubes — Dual 12AU7/ECC82 (Matched Pair) from JJ
Output Tubes — Dual 6V6GT (Matched Pair) from Electro Harmonix.
Single-ended Vacuum Tube Circuit
The HA-3A vacuum tube amplification is designed as a 2-stage single-ended circuit.
The 12AU7/ECC82 driver tubes will amplify the voltage level of the incoming audio signal so that the 6V6 output tubes will perform its amplification at a very linear condition.
This single-ended design uses matched tube pairs instead of matched quad-set tubes, so you can enjoy greater flexibility when replacing or upgrading the tubes in the future.
Transformer-coupled, Balanced Driven
The 6V6 output drives a pair of proprietary output transformers that supports single-ended and balanced headphone outputs.
The secondary winding of the output transformer provide an alternative phase and compose a balanced output, enabling balanced driver from a single-ended vacuum tube amplification circuit.
Both single-ended and balanced headphones are “original” outputs from the transformers.
Impedance Matched Headphone Output
Cayin engineers have optimized HA-3A’s output to handle the headphone loading according to three headphone impedance settings:
Low: 8Ω ~ 64Ω
Medium: 65Ω ~ 250Ω
High: 251Ω ~ 600Ω
Carefully Optimized Headphone Outputs
6.35mm Single-ended
4.4mm Balanced
4-Pin XLR Balanced
Dual Inputs
Balanced (XLR) and Single-ended (RCA) inputs provide flexibility in what you connect to the HA-3A amplifier.
The Balanced input will go through a pair of input transformers, the + and - half cycle will merge to become a single-ended signal.
Point-to-Point Wiring
It may be time consuming, but to ensure the shortest signal path and better attention to detail, the entire circuitry is handwired by skillful craftsmen.
Premium Power Transformers
Cayin always designs, winds and uses high inductance, high efficiency power transformers in our products. The reinforced shielding design minimizes the interference and noise to ensure HA-3A always sounds its best.
Volume Control
50KA Dual Unit smooth potentiometers from ALPS offers durable, high-precision volume control with excellent operational feel.
Design
The chassis and transformer pots are treated by our proprietary 14 rounds of crafting process composed of scratch, spray, sanding and baking.
The high gloss final finishing endows a refined and delicate texture as well as protecting the amplifier during years of long service.
A set of three 39x18mm XL shock-absorbing aluminum foot pads provide a firm and stable amplifier base for any hard flat surface.
Specs
Dimensions
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