Wells Audio Headtrip II
  

  • Model: Headtrip II
  • Shipping Weight: 26lbs
  • Manufactured by: Wells Audio
$7,000.00
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Meet the world famous heavyweight champion of state-of-the-art high end headphone amplifiers, the new Headtrip II headphone amplifier from Wells Audio. First conceived and designed at the request of the world's best headphone manufacturer (Abyss Headphones) to drive their particularly difficult to drive headphones it has been a wild success as what many consider to be the best headphone amplifier on the market. It was conceived originally as a scaled down example of our award winning stereo amplifier, the Innamorata, and has gone on to garner praise and awards from many audio circles as the very best sounding headphone amplifier in high end audio. As with all of their products it is an entirely original design that is custom hand built in the USA using through hole technology to incorporate the best audio components that money can buy allowing them to accommodate incorporation of any customer requested special features.

 

Technical Specs

  • Phone impedance: 4 to 2000 Ohms

  • Power output: 50w/channel at 8 ohms, 25W/channel at 32 Ohms

  • 1.8W/channel at 600ohms

  • Distortion: <0.006% at 1Khz at .1W to 100W at 4 Ohms

  • Frequency Response: +/-0.25db from 10Hz to 50Khz

  • Signal to Noise ratio: -103 db at full power

  • Input Impedance: 20K Ohms

  • Input Sensitivity: 85 mv

  • Gain: 30 db

  • Voltage: 120v, 230v, at 50/60 Hz

  • Inputs: 1 pair WBT Nextgen RCAs or 1 pair XLRs

  • Outputs: 1 Neutrik 4 pin stereo balanced & 1 1/4” stereo plug

  • Upgraded Rike PIO input coupling capacitors

  • Khozmo stepped attenuator with gold plated connections

  • Dimensions: 12.25” x 14” x 5" x 16” x 14” x 8” shipped

  • Weight: 20 lbs./26 Lbs. shipped

Meet HeadTrip

$7,000.00 USD

Building off of the the technical innovation of the Innamorata Signature comes the absolute state-of-the-art in headphone amplifiers, the Wells Audio Headtrip.

A scaled down version of our Innamorata Signature, the Wells Audio Headtrip may be the most advanced and powerful headphone amplifier on the market. It is a true dual-mono amplifier that is heavily biased into class A power, so it can easily drive even the most inefficient headphones to very loud levels. But power is not its only attribute. It shares all of the same legendary musical characteristics that have excited the high end community since the introduction of the Akasha and Innamorata amplifiers. Richness, fullness, effortless dynamics both micro and macro, transparency, tonal color, huge soundstage, tremendous bass, silky extended highs, vanishingly low noise floor, and an unmatched musical naturalness that will have you believing that you are truly experiencing the best that headphones have to offer.

In addition to Bybee Labs AC purifiers for AC line noise filtering and Bybee Music Rails for up to -45db of DC noise filtering.

“Anyone who has the ability to own this amp would certainly be the king of his or her audio community. A consumer would be hard pressed to find something equal to or better than this beautiful piece of audio perfection. ”
— Aaron, Headphone Guru, July 2015

What They're Saying about HeadTrip

The Reference (shown here in prototype, and targeting a $14k price point) really takes the gloves off [cough]. That is, it upgrades the innards still further, leveraging ultra-premium parts across the design, including some ultra-tweak secret-sauce signal/power conditioners from Magnetic Innovations.

[...] Sonically, I think all three headphones are quite refined and a significant step up from your granddad’s headphone amp (that is, an amp from about 3 years ago), but aside from easily driving the living snot out of every flagship headphone on the planet, including representatives from ENIGMAcoustics, Abyss and HiFiMAN, I’m going to have to spend a lot more time exploring to have a definitive judgment. All I can say at this point?

Bwahahahahaha! All your base are belong to us!

Ahem. Sorry. Yes — I meant to say, they are impressive. Most impressive.

Scott Hull, Part Time Audiophile, April 2016