Thursday 13 August 2015

Lovely Cube Audiophile-grade Headphone Amplifier

Just finished assembling this Lovely Cube amp for a guy I met on Reddit. The Lovely Cube comes as a populated circuit board, and is pretty high quality amp considering it's price (~$100). I was provided the board and the case, I think it came out pretty well :) And it sounds good too. My favourite part is that the volume knob feels juuust right, which is important when it's the final gain stage in your listening environment. The only thing I would change is that I couldn't find any screws that fitted the threaded holes in the case! so instead I used nice red cable ties. If the guy I'm building it for doesn't like the cable ties, then the screws shouldn't be too hard to find. I just didn't have any in my workshop that fitted.


The lovely cube has two inputs and two outputs. RCAs are the ins, stereo jacks are outs. The knob feels wonderful, and the green LED has a nice glow to it, while not being too bright.