Wells Audio Dragon Headphone Amp Preview

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How much difference can a headphone amp make to your listening?

Should it be the proverbial ‘straight wire with gain’, or should it shape the sound and add something positive to it? Those were the questions I had when I encountered the Wells Audio Dragon headphone amp. It’s a large device – a hybrid solid-state and tube amp with a large transformer.

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I listened to pure analog music and a lot of high-resolution digital recordings to see how it fared and compared it to other tube and solid-state headphone amps. My conclusions are in my upcoming Dragon review here at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity.

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Mel Martin

Mel spent most of his life working in television journalism in Ohio, Florida, the BBC in London, and in Seattle, WA. He won a few EMMY awards along the way which most people mistake for bowling trophies. Being around all those expensive monitors frustrated him when he got home to his threadbare TV and stereo, so he began to improve things, brand by brand, upgrade by upgrade. He’s got a lovely OLED TV now, flanked by Magnepan 3.6r speakers, and a Home theater with an Epson Projector and Focal speakers. Also scatted about the house are HiFiMan headphones, and 6 Sonos Connect devices that are spraying his rather large music collection from room to room. Other equipment is from Oppo, Sony, Aurender, PS Audio and Emotiva. Musical tastes range from Classical to Jazz to New Age to classic Rock and Roll. Mel has written a biography of film producer Samuel Bronston (El Cid, King of Kings) and is working now on a second film related book. He resides in Arizona where, when he’s not adjusting his home theater, he dabbles in landscape and astronomical photography.