THX Onyx Portable DAC/Amplifier Features Advanced THX AAA Implementation for High-Quality Music Over Headphones

THX announced the global launch of its first consumer electronics device, THX Onyx. A best-in-class portable USB-C DAC/Amp designed for headphone music enjoyment everywhere, the THX Onyx ($199.99 USD / $209.99 EUR) improves over traditional DAC amplifiers by combining the company's THX AAA amplifier technology with ESS Pro DAC chips, as well as MQA support. audioXpress received an advanced unit for review and we are now able to share our first impressions.

Gary Galo reviews the Benchmark HPA4, a reference headphone/line amplifier designed to deliver amplification of analog sources for audio enthusiasts, mixing and mastering engineers. Resulting from Benchmark’s collaboration with THX, the HPA4 features a THX-888 headphone amplifier for an output signal with high voltage, current, and and power complemented by low distortion, noise, and crosstalk. This article was published in audioXpress, November 2019.

Drop, the company formerly know as Massdrop, now also a product design company targeting enthusiasts, announced its first premium wireless headphones, engineered in collaboration with THX. Combining the acclaimed THX AAA linear amplifier with a planar ribbon driver already tested and proven by Drop, the Drop + THX Panda headphones are able to offer 30+ hours of battery life, and where demonstrated at CES 2020, before being made available in the community-driven commerce platform.

Benchmark Media Systems, introduced their new HPA4 headphone and line amplifier at CanJam Global SoCal, (LA, April 7-8) and will be showing it again at Axpona (Chicago, April 13-15.) where Benchmark will be conducting personal listening demonstrations. For this new development, Benchmark partnered with THX in order to incorporate the THX Achromatic Audio Amplifier (AAA) technology, which Benchmark had already explored for its flagship AHB2 power amplifier.