Headphone Amplifiers and…Boots?

Let’s go back in time, to EveAnna’s kitchen…

A few years back, EveAnna Manley was in her kitchen having a conversation with one of our industrial designers, and one question kept coming up:

“Why do all amplifiers have to be a square toaster oven box?”

We recently unearthed the notepad she used to sketch up some proposed designs that day in the kitchen:

 

How about a curvy chassis, with the tubes featured out in front?

Or what if we put the transformer on the BOTTOM and made it like a BOOT?

OK: transformer on top, with some nice curvy side cheeks and a rotary volume wheel…

Voila! The final result: the Absolute Headphone Amplifier.

Chris DaurayMABHPA