Oppo HA-1 Headphone Amp/DAC

Irrenhaus

Looks nice can be use as a Pre-amp also.

https://www.oppodigital.com/headphone-amplifier-ha-1/

Cheers

voltz

Yeah, I keep looking this one over, I know I would not get it no matter how good it is cause I like my Woo to much to change now. but I hear it has a great DAC also.

And I'm curious about how good their headphone is that matches this amp.

cnh

For what it's worth. Tyll over at innerfidelity.com has a review of the new Oppo phones that is pretty positive.

http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/scrumptious-oppo-digital-pm-1-planar-magnetic-headphone

cnh

tonyb

Pretty versatile little booger isn't it. Oppo continues to put out products people actually want at a decent price. Love that it has some analog inputs too.

AsSiMiLaTeD

I've got one and it sounds fantastic. Unfortunately it misses the mark for me, and it's the best product I've ever been this unhappy with. This has got to be the worst great product ever.

What I really wanted with this device was an Oppo 105 with a better headphone amp and without the disc drive and video capability, so basically take the money you're saving on that stuff and spend it on the headphone amp section and charge me the same price. That seems easy enough, right?

Instead, they removed that stuff but then also removed the streaming and ability to play back from attached storage, and put in dumb stuff like bluetooth streaming that IMO doesn't belong in a product like this. This kills it for me and as a result I"m not currently using mine much. They should be able to add those back in with software, so hopefully they're listening to me.

Specifically, we need these two features:
1 - Let me use this as a streaming device that I can point something like JRiver to
2 - Let me plug in a hard drive and give me a mobile app I can use to navigate and control playback from

The good news is that they don't have to 'figure out' how to do either of those, because they're doing them both quite well already with the Oppo 105.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Also, the Oppo is ginormous for a desktop headphone amplifier, it's the largest device I"ve ever had on my desktop. It's not a deal breaker for me, but any of you guys looking at one should check the dimensions and make sure it'll fit where you want it.

voltz

I use JRiver for all my music sent to my DAC that is not form my SACD player or TT. so that would have not worked for me either. (BTW my DAC is my SACD player)

On3s&Z3r0s

I was looking this one over too. I have a Benchmark that I love but so far I've only been able to get it to do DSD 64, not sure if Benchmark has any plans or any way to improve that to at least DSD 128. But the fact that the OPPO supports up to DSD 256 out of the box is pretty appealing.

I don't totally understand the comments here about streaming though... I looked at the pics / specs online, and I don't see anywhere that it is Ethernet enabled. It definitely doesn't have an RJ-45 that I can see and doesn't say wifi anywhere. So, I'm not getting how it even could stream audio over Ethernet if that's what you mean.

I've got a couple "DLNA" compliant Ethernet enabled devices that I will stream to for party background purposes, but that's not really a use case I have for a headphone amp. I would probably use this in my office connected to a full desktop PC, but I also might plug it into the small form-factor PC I use when streaming audio to the Benchmark in my 2 channel setup currently.

So, it sounds like this wouldn't be appropriate if you wanted to use it like a Sonos, but otherwise a good product or is it limited in some other way?

AsSiMiLaTeD

See my post a couple above yours. To clarify, I'm not 'looking' for the streaming features because they simply don't exist, I'm just disappointed that they're not here because a) that would have made it a one piece solution for me and b) it probably wouldn't have cost that much to add those in.

I've shared my feedback with Oppo, this thing sounds fantastic and if they ever release a model with streaming or at least the ability to play back from attached storage I'll be in line with my credit card.