Idol / Sym

SOUND CAT Idol

Female vocals come across bright and cute; male vocals, gentle, as if speaking just to you. With respectable resolution, it brings the voice right up close, as if your favourite singer were singing beside you.

SOUND CAT Sym

An all-genre compact model using the op-amp from the long-selling SOUND TIGER Sinfonia. It sounds bigger than its size and price.

Basic specifications

• 4.4 mm balanced input and output. Fully balanced, so it is ideal for DAPs with a balanced output
• No volume control, to avoid degrading the sound
• Runs on AAA NiMH rechargeable or alkaline batteries
• About 20 hours on new 750 mAh rechargeables
• Recommended batteries: Fujitsu white batteries; for alkaline, Fujitsu Premium S
• Reaches its full potential after 50 hours of burn-in, and 20 minutes after power-on

Power	49 mW @33Ω
Frequency response	3 Hz – 4 MHz (−3 dB)
Output impedance	0.9 Ω
Suitable impedance	Up to about 100 Ω

Note: the numbers do not always match the impression you get by ear.

Precautions

• Turn your player's volume down and connect from the headphone output (phone out) or a variable line output. A line output without volume control plays at full volume and can damage your hearing and your earphones or headphones.
• If you take the board out of its case, never put it down on metal. The batteries could short-circuit, causing burning or damage.
• Using any single-ended adapter other than "SE-Attach" on the output can damage the amplifier circuit or degrade the sound, and voids the warranty.
• Batteries other than NiMH, NiCd, alkaline or manganese are used at your own risk. Any resulting fault is not covered by the warranty.
• If the LED dims and noise appears, the batteries are running low. This is not a fault.