Tomasz’s Burson V6 Vivid and Classic Opamps with Burson Playmate

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Purchased 2x Vivid Dual and 2x Classic Dual to fit into Burson Playmate Basic and after installing can tell a noticeable difference: sound is much smoother and top-end much more natural (top end with basic op-amp felt unnatural, very metallic)

The System

Listening with

Burson Playmate · DAC / headphone amplifier / preamp · discontinued
  • Output power (headphone): 16 Ω 1.8 W · 32 Ω 2 W · 100 Ω 0.5 W · 150 Ω 0.3 W · 300 Ω 0.1 W
  • Output impedance: <2 Ω (headphone); 15 Ω (pre out)
  • Gain: not published
  • Inputs: USB (XMOS; PCM to 768 kHz/32-bit, native DSD512); Toslink
  • Input impedance: 38 kΩ
  • Outputs: RCA pre out; headphone jack (SE)
  • DAC / chipset: ESS SABRE32 ES9038 (suffix not stated)
  • Other: Original Playmate (Playmate 1); THD <0.002%; FR ±1 dB 0-35 kHz

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Burson

Burson V6 Vivid Opamp
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 Playmate product page