Upcoming Aune A17 Class A Desktop Amplifier

A17 Flagship Headphone Amp, Coming Soon.

Hold onto your headphones, folks! Just when we thought the desktop amp market couldn’t get any hotter (pun absolutely intended), Aune drops a molten slab of pure analog fury: the Aune A17 Class A Desktop Amplifier.

That’s right – Class A. Not a marketing gimmick, not a warm-ish op-amp. We’re talking about full-bore, high-bias, let-it-breathe (and let-it-heat) Class A amplification, now sitting right where your coffee mug used to be.

For years, the trade-off was simple: you wanted that liquid, grain-free, “in-the-room-with-you” Class A magic? You needed a 40-pound nuclear reactor with fin stacks the size of a small city. Aune just flipped the script.

The A17 takes everything we love about their precision engineering (looking at you, S17 Pro) and crams that silky, authoritative Class A current into a genuinely desktop-friendly chassis. Early whispers from the bench suggest this little silver slab runs gloriously warm to the touch – the kind of warmth that tells you something special is happening inside.

● 0.6A Class-A current per channel
● 12W output power
● Dual toroidal analog transformer
● Two gain levels
● MUSES R2R volume control
● 40000uF capacitor array
● Output options: headphone/preamp/headphone & preamp out
● Two current modes
● Dual display

Stay tuned.