HIFIMAN - GOLDENWAVE- Serenade Jr - DAC & Headphone Amplifier

HIFIMAN – Serenade JR – DAC & Headphone Amplifier

Discover the HIFIMAN Serenade JR, an all in one streaming DAC and Class A headphone amplifier engineered for uncompromising sonic fidelity. At its core sits an upgradable XMOS XU316 streamer board, “the Core of Streaming Media,” that accepts LAN network, USB, Coaxial SPDIF and Optical inputs. It pairs with the precision Himalaya LE R 2R DAC module to reconstruct every nuance with XLR outputs at 4.5V RMS and RCA outputs at 2.2V RMS.

Power comes from a 50 W iron core toroidal transformer feeding a multi stage filter capacitor array totaling nearly 30 000 µF of capacitance. The pure full range analog path uses a discrete low pass filter circuit that forgoes coupling capacitors to eliminate nonlinear distortion. Three front panel headphone jacks, 4 pin XLR balanced, 4.4mm balanced and 6.35mm single ended, are driven by a precisely matched discrete Class A amplifier for both airiness and warm mid low depth.

Front panel controls include input selector, output selector, a Setting button and a precision volume knob, alongside low noise level meters on the FET amplifier block. The rear panel offers digital inputs supporting PCM up to 32 bit 384 kHz and DSD64–DSD256 on USB, PCM up to 32 bit 192 kHz and DSD DoP64 on Coaxial and Optical, as well as network streaming to PCM44.1–PCM768 and DSD64–DSD512. Line outputs are available via buffered XLR balanced and RCA single ended, while power is provided through an IEC inlet with integrated switch.