PreSonus HP2 Personal Headphone Amplifier

Excellent kit - will take a bashing on the road too! All metal construction - battery or wall wart... sending two mono feeds allows user to "balance" between themselves and the rest... This is well thought out kit!

My use case is for a home based, small, professional studio with separate live room. Aside from recording my own band, I also record vocal reels for performing artists. On occasions I get duets and trios in, and my old, inexpensive 4 channel Behringer headphone amp simply wasn't cutting it, and would easily distort. I also own a Presonus Monitor Station v2, which has four headphone outs, but it doesn't have the same 'more me' functionality as the HP60 and I only really use it for swapping between speakers and listening in mono. I did think of using an old Mackie analogue mixer just to serve as a headphone amp, and then I spotted this at the reduced price of about £100 below the normal advertised price. It was described as (b stock or open box, can't recall the terminology), but when it arrived I couldn't see any indication that the box had ever been opened, or the device used. I guess I was lucky.I also seem to be luckier than others who have not had good experiences with the HP60. In my case, it has been outstanding! I could have done with some more explicit configuration examples, for example how to set it up with a StudioLive desk (including how to configure the desk for use with it!). That took me a bit of headscratching, but I got it to work in the end. My 19" rack is positioned at the opposite side of the room to the entrance to the live room, so the cabling situation is a bit of a mess at the moment. I'm currently using only three of the six available channels and I've got relatively cheap 6m TRS extensions snaked around the room going into three pairs of DT770 Pro headphones in the live room. I expected some noise over these cables, but surprisingly they are very quiet.Build quality is great. Sound quality is great. Flexibility is great. It looks great. If I had to make any suggestions, I would like to have seen a TALK latch and, more importantly, an on/off switch on the front of the unit! Whoever thought it was a good idea to put it on the back of a rackmounted unit didn't think hard enough! I'm sure they must exist, but this is the first piece of rackmounted gear I have ever owned that hasn't had the on/off switch on the front.From a flexibillity point of view, it's really outstanding. Individual 'More me' requests are dealt with in seconds, and I have configured the unused three channels with alternative 'bare minimum' submixes for easy access.At the full asking price, I would probably have gone for my original spare analogue mixer plan, but for what I paid, I am very happy indeed. Having used it for a while now, I would not have been disappointed had I paid the full price.

I had this out of the box 5 minutes. Build quality isn'y any better than Behringer. Channel 6 was noisy even when on mute with all other channels zeroed. Not what I expected, put it against the UMC1820 which is a budget interface and the difference is very noticeable. The Presonus is very muddy and the UMC1820 actually sounds much better. Very disappointed with the quality control from Presonus, but it's not the first time I have had QC problems with their products. Really has put me off from buying anymore Presonus gear again.

Sólo para auriculares de muy baja impedancia.

Chi ha scritto in giro che di volume ne ha troppo poco non ha capito che con una cuffia con impedenza elevata la resa è misera. Ho fatto una prova con una cuffia da 80 ohm e in effetti il volume era poco (dividendo il segnale tra mix generale e il mio strumento anche dando tutta la priorità a quest'ultimo, non usciva un granchè). La storia cambia completamente con in ear con impedenza da 24 ohm: a metà volume già basta e avanza! E il suono è pulito, senza particolari rumori di fondo anche alimentando l'HP2 con il suo alimentatore. Altra lamentela letta in giro la poca praticità per cambiare la batteria: in effetti è un po' scomodo dover svitare l'attacco filettato per aprire lo sportellino del vano. Ma cosa da non sottovalutare è che, come dice il manuale, se è inserita la batteria e si collega l'alimentazione, la batteria viene bypassata! Non c'è quindi il pericolo di sovralimentazione! Al momento che si scollega l'alimentatore di rete, l'HP2 torna ad alimentarsi dalla batteria. Per chi ha tanta apprensione che durante il live diventa laborioso il dover sostituire la batteria che si scarica, mettetene una nuova prima di salire sul palco!!! Per me promosso a pieni voti in quanto ho la possibilità di miscelare il suono del mio strumento con tutti gli altri ruotando un potenziometro che ho ha portata di mano. Mi auguro che, visto anche la sua robustezza, duri abbastanza a lungo. Spedizione in anticipo di 1 giorno e pacco ben imballato. Un grazie al venditore e al corriere.

Très bon produit chez Presonus. Il manquerait peut-être une entrée auxiliaire pour pouvoir mettre un téléphone ou un lecteur supplémentaire. Le prix est du coup un peu élevé comparé au autres produits similaires sur le marché.

product is rock solidthere are 2 problems1 tge mic hook if removed then the hook which holds the strap mount also opens and it gets difficult to take out both the mount2 as the product is made of strong metal/aluminiu. tge comductivity varies in it if anything touches is while playing u het the humming sound as well as the stand u mount to if get touched by anything will also make the humming sound ...you can take care of that else its a clasaic durable product

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