Elysia xpector

Need high‑quality but portable headphone amplification for both engineer and artist? Elysia may have the answer.

Elysia’s aim is “the development and production of high‑quality audio equipment featuring that certain something”. In pursuit of it, they do everything in‑house at their base in Nettetal, Germany — and I really do mean everything. They design, develop and prototype their products there, they make their own PCBs, have their own SMD manufacturing equipment, machine their own metalwork, and carry out final assembly and testing. It’s an integrated approach that has resulted in the creation of some wonderful products, and the latest is the xpector, a desktop, Class‑A, dual‑channel headphone amplifier that’s an innovative headphone and monitor control solution for the DAW‑based engineer/producer and provides a separate, well‑featured artist headphone mixing facility too.

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The rear‑panel layout confirms that although the xpector shares the general form of Elysia’s qube range, it’s not actually a 500‑series...