Our picks for the best desktop and portable DAC/Amps for audiophiles of 2025 include Burson Audio, JDS Labs, FiiO, iFi Audio and Rotel.

If you listen to high-quality headphones at home, you absolutely need a dedicated headphone amplifier. Head-Direct's EF5 Desktop Tube Hybrid Amp will take your headphone's sound to another level.

Pro-Ject Head Box E offers powerful, affordable desktop headphone amplification with discrete circuitry and versatile connections. A solid $120 upgrade option. If you’re serious about squeezing better ...

Pro-Ject, one of the biggest names in budget-friendly audiophile turntables, has unveiled a micro-sized headphone amplifier named the Head Box E. According to the Austrian hi-fi maker, it’s “one of ...

The DL400 is a high-powered desktop amp with impressive specification and a very competitive price tag. SMSL has developed a ...

It's made in Germany and costs a fortune, but the Mal Valve Head Amp Three is the best there is. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a ...

Players looking to tap into the sweet sounds of a vintage Vox AC30 amplifier while out and about might plug into one of the company's excellent amPlug headphone amps and rock out. But now there's ...

Pro-Ject's Head Box E is a pocket-sized headphone amp that eschews integrated chips for discrete components and comes with an attractive price tag of just £89 / €119. Available later this month, it ...

Such is the dominance of digital audio today that it is rare to come across an all-analogue anything in hi-fi that isn’t a turntable or an associated component, let alone a headphone amplifier, a ...

Yamaha's upcoming HA-L7A headphone amplifier is designed to be the perfect partner for the exceptional high-end YH-5000SE headphones. Here are our first impressions. The flagship iCan Phantom ...

If you’re looking for better audio at your desk, one of the best things you can do is buy a nice pair of wired headphones and a headphone amp/DAC that can properly drive them. The advantage of wired ...