Seven of Hyperion's transistor moons mount to this full-width multi-lam divider. Another four backed by small heatsinks hover in front of them. The chunky hum-free O-type power transformer in its metal cradle sits vertical.

The two-gang stepped attenuator without any switching noise uses precision resistors. The speaker terminals are banana only.

Hyperion Ge's 3/4th width makes it rather larger than my Enleum but still more compact than full size.

Without removing its footers, the Serbian was too tall to clear my monitor shelf so had to go onto the desktop proper. Palma's DHS-1 headphone is close to Meze's 109 Pro on sensitivity and clearly wanted the -6dB XLR4 input to even get to volume step 6; in low gain. That was off the 2V RCA output of the Laiv Harmony DAC.

Hyperion Ge ⇒ LessLoss Firewall for Headphones ⇒ Forza AudioWorks C-MARC cabling ⇒  Palma Audio DHS-1.

Once I learnt that the gain switch is also active for the speaker outputs, my Dutch monitors in their aluminium cabs only made it to 9 to rock my writer's casbah. It seemed appropriate to kick that off with Serbian vocalist Karolina Goceva and her sterling album Pesni za Ljubov i Kopnez with pianist Duke Bojadziev and Macedonian clarinet ace Ismail Lumanovski.

Win 64/10 ⇒ Qobuz Sublime ⇒ Audirvana Studio ⇒ USB3 ⇒  iFi inline noise filter ⇒ Singxer SU-2 reclocked by LHY masterclock ⇒ Laiv Harmony ⇒ Hyperion Ge ⇒ Acelec Model One.