Ray Samuels Audio

06/03/2026

We’ve had something special in house — the Ray Samuels Audio Emmeline F-35 The Lightning balanced portable amplifier. Paired with the legendary AB1266 TC, this compact powerhouse delivers control, exceptional resolution, and a beautifully organic presentation.

What surprised us most is its tuning through the upper mids — rich, lush, and almost tube-like in character — giving vocals and instruments a natural body while expanding the soundstage.

05/31/2026

F-35 Lightning is a portable fully balanced input to output amp. I pair it with some of the best Dacs, like Esoteric and Bolder digital player. Don't look at the size of this giant killer. You have to hear it to believe your ears. Don't judge it as a portable amp but expect only the best sound quality that rivals that of the desktops high end amps. Not only sounds warm, detailed, sweet and dynamic but it can literally drive the Abyss 1266, HiFiman,Susvara and HiFiman HE-6 which are very demanding headphones with ease and authority. If you want a balanced portable amp that can accommodate all your dynamic, high impedance headphones and all the hard to drive Planar phones this tiny F-35 Lightning can take them for a ride with out sweating. We have all the cables available for both inputs and outputs including 5 feet cable that goes from your home Dac or CD player to the F-35 input. The cables are made from a high quality Japanese audiophile wire. $750.00 for the F-35 and all 4 cables...

05/21/2026

F-35 The Lightning fully balanced input to output portable/desktop headphone amp.
The mini B-21 Raider.
You have to hear it to believe it.

05/15/2026

You owe it to your self to listen to Abyss 1266 headphones being driven by fully balanced, input to output, F-35 Lightning portable amp..

02/22/2026

To all B-21 Raider owners, you can order this beautiful heaphone stand from BendyHead...

12/22/2025

12/18/2025

Christmas special..
The Emmeline, F-35 Lightning, is the SMALLEST fully BALANCED, input to output portable amp we have designed. It has a balanced and a single ended inputs, RSA 4 pins connector and 3.5 single ended.
F-35 is capable to convert the single ended signal to a balanced signal so you will always listen to balanced output no matter what input is used.
The amp's dimensions are 3 X 1.75 X .75 inches. It packes power that drives all high impedance phones and most of planer phones as it swings 16.8 volts p-p at one amp of current. It has low gain of 3, medium gain of 11 and high gain of 21. It comes with Lithium Ion battery and charger.
We supply three cables with it that gives you the flexibility of using different input sources and outputs for headphones.The sound is dynamic, smooth and sweet.
The package is $625.00 plus shipping.

11/30/2025

Listening to Diana Krall, "The Girl In The Other Room" Stax 9000 and B-21 Raider.