LD Systems HPA 4 Reviews

Great

A perfect product. Exactly as you’d imagine it is

Broke rapidly

After two uses, only one channel keeps working, which is quite useless.

Ampli Casque correct pour un Home studio.

Cet ampli casque fait le job pour une utilisation en home studio.

Les boutons de volume pour chaque sortie casque sont les bienvenues et utiles.

Le son est assez fidèle à la sortie casque de mon interface.

Seul bémol : Absence de bouton on/off.

Does It's Job

Does as promised. Useful addition to your setup if your audio interface doesn't have an integrated headphone amp. Would recommend.

Perfectly adequate

It's pretty bare bones, but it does what I need it to do. It doesn't seem especially sturdy but I don't move it, so that's no big deal.

Perfect and handy!

Nice sound and build quality and easy to use in a small studio!

Love it

Fantastic little amp

I love the build quality and the compact size. Excellent product for the price!

Great quality

This is a great quality, great value headphone amp. Perfect for on location recording for multiple musicians.

Useful headphone amp

The price is great! When you crank the volume up its a little bit noisy, use it on half .Use TRS or RCA!! its very cheap and useful!

Great for Home Studio

Recording and you need the mix to send to a couple of headphones. Perfect for the job. It's budget and easy to use. Quality does degenerate so highly would not recommend mixing or application needing high fidelity through this, but perfect for recording and general listening purposes.

Needing a headphone amp to ear my bass

I bougth this, because using any kind of audio interface, my bass was always to low in the mix when playing allong with any audio tracks. Even pushing the input gain near clip.

I have 3 extra outputs but don't care. Very happy, simple to use, effective and not to expensive.

Low cost Headphone amplifier

Housing made of metal, the knobs and the jack sockets don't look really solidly assembled, the output is often noisy.

It requires power and comes with its power supply.

It does its job, it takes a stereo signal and distributes it on 4 separate stereo headphones out. The mono switch on the back is a helpful plus, it can be useful when tracking some live musicians that leave one ear free from the headphones.

Does what its supposed to.

If you are looking for a way to split 1 output into 4, this is the tool. If you are looking for an amplification device, I would advise against this device.

Once you go past the halfway mark of the controls, noise starts to be present in the sound. Also there is no value indication. I believe the device to be at 100% volume with the control half way but there is no certainty.

Be careful

Sound wise it's a decent box for the price, but if you have the head phones on while you plug it in it could really hurt your ears. It comes a big "pop-ing" sound when you plug the jack in. Would not recommend it if it's not going to be plugged in all the time.

Does what it says on the box.

The amp seems well built. It's metal, the knobs have a sturdy and smooth feel. The volume achieved is also very good. I have never had to turn it beyond half way for use with headphones (source: turntable). I like that its quite small aswell so it never gets in the way.

I have bought this amp to use with my turntable. The fact that it has 4 channels really helps as more than one person can listen to it with different headphones. Also, my stereo system only has a 3.5 mm input so with an adapter from 1/4 inch to 3.5 mm so I can connect the turntable to my stereo.

Bang for a buck

Really good value for money, simple as that. Sound was full and present. I use it mainly for expanding my headphone output when recording multiple people.

Might not be 1st choice if you just want a headphone amp for clarity/mixing/hi-fi listening. Felt like my Saffire pro 24 headphone output had more presence in the low-mid range.

It does the job.

I use it with headphones and with my E-Drums and it works great. It enhances the signal significantly even a little bit too much. It meets my expectations. Besides it has a robust casing and four adjustable headphone outputs. A little con is a lack of on/off switch.

Has no ON/OFF switch

It does what it should, but is missing a ON/OFF switch, so everytime after using this you have to unplug it. Very uncomfortable.

Great for Team Projects

This HPA 4 is an inexpensive, robust and simple to use amplifier/singal splitter perfect for multi use production and band practise. I have been using it with my focusrite at my home studio and also at practise with the band straight from our mixing table, now four of us can use headphones at the same time and simultaneously listen to each other , adds a great dynamic to our practises . If you are using this to produce/master music , keep an eye on your volume levels on your DAW as it does boost the loudness signifcantly. a very handy tool.

Small and useful preamp

I use it on FM station because our mixing desk doesn't have headphone amplifier. The sound is very good, very loud even with most "hungry" headphones. I use another on live stage with the band for "in ear" monitoring for keyboard player, also very good. I have positive experience with other LD products as well.