Anni Desktop Integrated Amplifier

The Anni is Chord Electronics' first-ever hi-fi desktop integrated amplifier and headphone amp. It's part of the Qutest lineup of products and shares the same form factor as the Huei and Qutest. It's small but mighty - capable of driving both headphones and compact loudspeakers or small bookshelf speakers with pristine sound quality. The Anni is a solid choice for a desktop amplifier, in both size and versatility. If you're planning on pairing this with headphones or even the Qutest stack, then you'll be more than happy with the amount of clean power and detail it provides. Speaker setups are a little tricker here, and you'll need to make sure the Anni can provide enough power for your bookshelf speakers or passive speakers. Specific pairings will also need to be accounted for, as the Anni certainly sounds better in certain signal chains. The Chord Anni/Qutest is a power pairing, however, and combined with the Huei makes for a triple-threat tiny stack. When it comes to desktop setups you'll be hard-pressed to find a preamp/power amplifier this small and versatile with terrific specs and superb, clean sound.

Small Amplifier, Lots of Power

The Anni power amp from Chord Electronics benefits from the company's proprietary ULTIMA high-end circuit topology and is perfectly capable of powering much of today's high-performance headphones, desktop monitors, and high-resolution audio sources to their full potential. Don't let its size fool you, the Anni is a powerful headphone amplifier, stereo amplifier, and more, especially given its size. The Anni works well with the Huei, which incorporates turntables into your system, and other analogue sources. It’s an audiophile-grade audio amplifier with great power output.

The Anni offers dual-feed-forward error-correction circuit topology when using either headphones or connected to compact loudspeakers or small bookshelf speakers. Anni's advanced technology allows it to drive just about any headphone load (apart from electrostatics), providing error monitoring and compensated amplification at all times.

The Anni has both 3.5mm and quarter-inch (6.35mm) single-ended headphone outputs and allows for both outputs to work simultaneously so you can connect two headphones at the same time. The Anni also has 4mm banana-type loudspeaker outputs, delivering 10 watts of quality ULTIMA amplification. It's controlled by a fascia-mounted volume control that also doubles as an input selector switch for Anni's two line-level inputs. A two-stage gain control for loudspeakers provides additional flexibility with a wide range of desktop monitors. The Anni has a surprising amount of control for whatever you want to connect it to and allows the listener all the headroom they need for most applications (within the power limit).