HPA4 - HI-FI+ - "Top 100 Products of the Past 20 Years"
"Our final round of the best products from the finest brands of the last 20 years, covering products made from early 1999 to 2019."
"Benchmark is perhaps best known for its range of DACs, but the new HPA4 shows just what the brand can do with a take-no-prisoners headphone amplifier design."
"A real game-changer!"
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"The LA4 preamplifier was the widest-bandwidth, widest-dynamic-range, lowest-noise, lowest-distortion preamplifier I had encountered at that time. . . . To those virtues, the HPA4 adds equally superb balanced and single-ended headphone outputs."
- John Atkinson