If you're looking for an austere audiophile headphone amp that sacrifices nothing in the way of sound, power, headroom, and look, and feel, the SPL Phonitor se with DAC is a suitable option. This headphone and DAC combination, styled here in a black finish, gives you the main features SPL pro-fi headphone amps are known for, such as naturalistic crossfeed, a high-grade audiophile DAC, and oodles of clean output power thanks to 120V VOLTAiR technology.
The 120V rails come straight from their mastering gear used in top-notch studios across the world and are a main factor behind the Phonitor se's ability to drive up to 5W of output power per channel into headphones, doing so cleanly, without distortion. The Phonitor se's Crossfeed switch allows you to recreate the effect of speakers in your headphones at will, eliminating the often stringent and extreme separation of conventional headphone listening. The DAC allows support up to 768 kHz for PCM audio, and DoP (DSD over PCM) up 20 DSD256.