Purple Audio Cans II

Discrete Stereo Headphone Amp and Control Room Preamplifier designed to work in standard “500” racks.

The Cans II Headphone and Control Room preamplifier is a great addition to the Sweet Ten Rack or any 500 series rack. This module provides all the control of a console master section in a sleek, compact design. The Cans II allows you to quickly and easily check the phase and width of mixes without extra DAW routing or plugins bogging down your CPU.

The Cans II can also be used for headphone amplification in a live room or control room setting, offering versatility in any area of a small or large format studio. It provides excellent sound quality and control to any set of headphones or monitors in all applications.

Key Features

• Uses a KDJ6 op amp for mono and KDJ5 op amps for outputs
• Discrete signal path
• Capable of driving the most demanding headphones
• 10k Ohm Transformer balanced input
• Hi-Z input will not load sources when multing
• 15dBu Gain
• Individual channel cuts
• Channel swap
• Channel sum to mono
• Precision matched stereo level control
• Ships with XLRF to XLRF adaptor for stereo input
• Unbalanced stereo front panel 1/4″ TRS output
• Second stereo balanced input on rear 1/4″ on Purple Sweet Ten rack (switchable via front panel toggle)
• Current consumption: 70mA
• Over Current Resettable Fused (prevents any module problem from affecting the rack)
• ROHS – Lead Free

• Pin 1: Chassis Ground
• Pin 2: Input 1 Right +
• Pin 3: Input 2 Right + (Purple Audio Rack Only – OPT OUT)
• Pin 4: Input 1 Right –
• Pin 5: NC
• Pin 6: Input 2 Right – (Purple Audio Rack Only – OPT OUT)
• Pin 7: Input 2 Left – (Purple Audio Rack Only – OPT IN)
• Pin 8: Input 1 Left –
• Pin 9: Input 2 Left + (Purple Audio Rack Only – OPT IN)
• Pin 10: Input 1 Left +
• Pin 11: NC
• Pin 12: +15 or 16VDC 70mA
• Pin 13: Audio Ground
• Pin 14: -15 or 16VDC 70mA
• Pin 15: NC (+48VDC)

For easy serviceability and tweaking, the Purple discrete opamps can be replaced with any standard discrete opamp or a DIP-8 IC. The output amp stages in the Cans are modular but cannot be replaced with any other opamp.