Bounty

The Bounty is our newest entry and the choice for headphone requiring total control and high output. Derived from one of ampsandsound’s most popular amps and revived with all new metal chassis. The Bounty pairs brutalist design and overwhelming power to breath life into difficult headphones. 

Our customers have come to love the laboratory grade implementation of our work and its intended long lifecycle. The Bounty is built with 11gage steel plate providing a compact and extraordinarily solid amp.

The Bounty is meant to bridge the gap between headphones needing big power and a no compromise stereo amp for speakers of almost any pairing. With its 17watts you can run nearly any speaker practically in most rooms. Fantastic pairings include JBL L100, KEF LS50, Tekton double impacts, Zu Dirty Weekend, Klipsch Heresy/Cornwall and Fortes, LS3/5a, Harbeth 30.1s. 

The Bounty is an EL84 ultra linear amp with 17 watts of tube bliss. 2 EL84 tubes in push-pull configuration per channel with 12AX7 for input and a 12AU7 for the phase splitter.  The circuit used is widely famed for its stability and liquid midrange. With fixed bias, tube rolling is a breeze. The removable tube cage protects your tubes when family and pets cant be trusted. 

The Bounty is based on the famous Halfer circuit with cathode bias allowing trouble free operation. 8ohm tap for speakers with a switch for deactivation. 16ohm, 32ohm and 100ohm 4pin XLR on the front providing a multitude of options for optimal impedance matching.

The Bounty produces a stable 17 watts RMS with 22watt peaks with significant current delivery. The output transformers utilize massive cores which resist saturation and deliver jaw dropping low end performance thanks to their 35watt cores. Like all ampsandsound amplifiers, it is dead quiet with reliable performance. When we say dead… we mean put your ear to the mouth of your horn-loaded system and all you will hear is silence!

Never leaving well enough alone, the Bounty is for those who demand the very last degree of performance. We employ use of custom wound transformers made exclusively for ampsandsound. The power transformer is nearly twice, and size and weight/core as needed in the unit to allow for real dynamic swings and true 200% duty cycles. 

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Specifications:Input impedance is 10Kohm, 1.6v for full power.

Noise is 2.8mV P-P 

Power is 17Watts RMS with peaks of 22Watts @ 1kHz 

Bandwith 
10 Hz – 30kHz (-1db) @ 1Watt
18 Hz – 20kHz (-1db) @ 5Watts
26 Hz – 17Hz   (-1db) @ 10Watts

Power and Noise specs are dependent on tube selection.

Tube set included.

60lbs total shipped, 45lbs amp 17.5" wide x 12" deep x 6" tall

packed in seahorse 1220 case. 

The all ampsandsound amps are handmade in Southern California with custom hand-wound output transformers and U.S. sourced parts.

Our amps are hand made by a small team with quality being our first priority.