Chord Anni is a dinky desktop amplifier for both headphones and speakers
Chord has packaged its proprietary Ultima amplifier technology into its most diminutive design yet. The Anni is the company’s first-ever desktop integrated amp, capable of delivering 10 watts of amplification to headphones and speakers through its 3.5mm, 6.35mm and banana-type speaker outputs
This is the spot to discuss CHORD’s latest creation.
Since when are Chord products made by Audeze?
just look at Audeze Chord products
(That’s an intended pun)
That’s supposed to be a secret
At $1795, this amp will compete with Burson Soloist 3x, Violectric v280, GSX Mini and possibly SPL Phonitor X.
Quite curious how it will perform.
I love qutest/anni form factor. It fits easily on work desk.
i think so too, chord hit a good blow
with SUSVARA…anyone volunteer?
Hmmm, 10 watts into 8 ohms (which is the only power spec they give, even in the manual) probably puts the headphone jack output closer to 5 watts into 32ohms. Nice, but not groundbreaking.
i wonder if he will be able to drive well hifiman SUSVARA or Abyss 1266 Phi TC
Power output, at various impedances, for the Chord Anni should look like this:
Per the note, these are calculated values; only the baseline figure is provided by the manufacturer, so variations in values at a given impedance are possible based on the specific current, voltage-rail and thermal constraints at work.
It’s amazing that 10 watt speaker amps become a quarter watt amp for 300 ohm headphones.
Not finger-pointing at this product, just seeing the numbers laid out like that really hits me in the face!
thank you very much TORQ for this recap table
Has anyone in the forums heard the Anni? I have given up trying to get a Phonitor, so I am now looking harder into the Anni.
I own it and like it a lot…mostly because its size allows me to easily transport…it drives most anything and pairs well with chord dac’s
