Integrated Amplifier

There are some very stable points in our world, music being one of them. Music reproduction by Heed is another one. For more than a quarter century, we walk our own way, to show everyone that the world is far from flat.

The Elixir is the essence of how we think about music reproduction. This integrated amplifier puts down four important cornerstones that show provide a playground for the listener. A preamplifier with its dedicated output, a power amplifier with plenty of juice to drive anything reasonable, a phono preamplifier to re-discover those black discs, and a headphone amplifier with way too much talents for a secondary function only. But we have built them into one box because these are the basic functions everyone should experience in "My First Hi-Fi System".

As it happens, it is well enough for the second and the third as well...

The Elixir has a neat place amongst our Transcap technology amplifiers. It is the purest music performer of all, without any technical compromise and presents the music effortlessly. Besides the power amplifier, the headphone stage also benefits from the basic idea of the Transcap technology. Class-A, darlington-driven, capacitor-coupled outputs feed your headphones like nothing else you have experienced before.

The MM phono stage is based on the Questar's circuit. As the standalone amp, this integrated incarnation is thick and warm and provides a great overall amplification for nearly all kind of MM cartridges. It's a very easy way to find your way back into the analogue domain, and be a lifetime captive of the black vinyl.

How It Works

It is far from us to lose you in technical terms. It is not our aim to teach you our profession or to provide you with numbers that are merely different from other devices. Electronic specifications and "correctness" are just one aspect and not enough to create perfect music reproduction alone.

Even so we ought to enlighten you about some of the specialties that make Heed products distinctive and stand out from the crowd. Naturally it is impossible to make a musical impression by words alone. Should you have the chance to listen to our creations then you can become acquainted with the relationships between the technical and sonic features of our products by studying the following chapters.

Features:

• 4 analogue and 1 MM phono inputs
• Class-A headphone amplifier
• Transcap - output capacitor technology
• Discrete bipolar transistor architecture

Specifications:

• Inputs: 1x RCA / 1x BNC / 2x Optical / 1x USB / 1x expansion card
• Outputs: 1x line level analogue
• Output level: 2.1 Vrms
• Freq. response: 3 Hz - (depends on sampling frequency)
• DSD filter freq.: 50 kHz standard Scarlet Book
• Sampling frequencies (BNC, RCA, opt.): 32 / 44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 / 176.4 / 192 kHz max. 24 bit PCM
• Sampling frequencies (USB): 32 / 44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 / 176.4 / 192 / 352.8 / 384 kHz max. 32 bit and 2.8224 / 5.6448 MHz 1 bit native DSD
• Max. consumption: 50 VA
• Weight: 4.5 kg
• Dimensions (WxHxD): 22 x 8.7 x 32.5 cm