Robert’s Burson V6 Classic Opamp with Burson Play

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The Play sounds warm, with smooth treble and cultivated bass. The soundstage is very wide and gives you an impression of sitting in the 10th row of a big concert venue. Already in the basic version, the Play is incredible bang for the buck which makes you wonder how much potential is out there once you start upgrading the opamps. I have started the journey with the full set of V6 Classics. The Burson Play will clean up my desktop and move some of the docs and amps I have there to lower drawers and take the place as my No.1 daily companion.

Increased soundstage depth, more natural sounding orchestral instruments, added warmth compared to stock op-amps. Valuable upgrade for my Burson Play.

The System

Listening with

Burson Play · DAC / headphone amplifier / preamp (PC card-size) · discontinued
  • Output power (headphone): 16 Ω 2 W · 32 Ω 1 W · 100 Ω 0.32 W · 150 Ω 0.2 W · 300 Ω 0.1 W
  • Output impedance: 8 Ω (headphone); 35 Ω (pre out)
  • Gain: not published
  • Inputs: USB
  • Input impedance: 35 kΩ
  • Outputs: RCA pre out; headphone jack
  • DAC / chipset: ESS SABRE32 ES9018
  • Other: THD <0.02%; DAC PCM to 384 kHz, DSD256

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Burson

Burson V6 Classic Opamp

Specs from manufacturer data unless a source below says otherwise. “calc.” values are worked out from those figures (V = √(P × R); 110 dB SPL used as a loud reference level). Gear listed without specs is not in our spec library yet.

  1. Burson Play product page