Heed Elixir Integrated Amplifier

There are some very stable points in our world, music being one of them. Music reproduction by Heed is another one. For more than a quarter century, Heed Audio have walked their own path, to show everyone that the world is far from flat.

The Heed Elixir integrated amplifier is the essence of how the Heed design team think about music reproduction. This integrated amplifier puts down four important cornerstones that show provide a playground for the listener. A preamplifier with its dedicated output, a power amplifier with plenty of juice to drive anything reasonable, a phono stage to re-discover those black vinyl records, and a headphone amplifier with way too much talents for a secondary function only. But Heed have built them into one box because these are the basic functions everyone should experience in “My First Hi-Fi System”. As it happens, it is well enough for the second and the third as well…

The Heed Elixir has a neat place amongst our Transcap technology amplifiers. It is the purest music performer of all, without any technical compromise and presents the music effortlessly. Besides the power amplifier, the headphone stage also benefits from the basic idea of the Transcap technology. Class-A, darlington-driven, capacitor-coupled outputs feed your headphones like nothing else you have experienced before.

The MM phono stage is based on the Heed Questar’s circuit. As the standalone amp, this integrated incarnation is thick and warm and provides a great overall amplification for nearly all kind of MM cartridges. It’s a very easy way to find your way back into the analogue domain, and be a lifetime captive of the black vinyl.

Features

4 analogue and 1 MM phono inputs
Class-A headphone amplifier
Transcap – output capacitor technology
Discrete bipolar transistor architecture

Specifications

Inputs: 4x line analogue / 1x MM phono
Outputs: 1x stereo speaker / 1x preamplifier out / 1x 6.35mm headphones out
Freq. response (speakers): 10 Hz – 110 kHz
Freq. response (preamp): 3.5 Hz – 300 kHz
Freq. response (headphones): 3.5 Hz – 320 kHz
Input impedance (line): 10 kΩ
Input impedance (MM): 47 kΩ / 100 pF
Input sensitivity: 135 mV
Power (8Ω): 50 W / channel (55 W peak / ch)
Power (4Ω): 65 W / channel (90 W peak / ch)
Max. consumption: 150 W
Idle consumption: 20 W
Weight: 6 kg
Dimensions (WxHxD): 22 x 8.5 x 36 cm

Heed Elixir Owner’s Manual