Yamaha Headphone Amplifiers

Japanese company founded in 1887 making reed organs. Now the largest musical instrument maker in the world, and a major hi-fi and AV brand.

Founded: 1887 (founded as a reed-organ maker; incorporated as Nippon Gakki in 1897)
Founder: Torakusu Yamaha
Headquarters: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Manufacturing: Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and China
How to buy: Sold through specialist hi-fi dealers, online retailers and pro-audio dealers
Known for: Being a musical instrument maker first, the NS-1000M beryllium monitor, the NS-10M studio monitor, AV receivers

Currently, we have 1 Yamaha amplifier in our database. Below you can find the list with their main specs and links to their review pages.

Yamaha Headphone Amplifier

	Model	Watts RMS (8Ω)	Amp Class	DAC	Phono
	HA-L7A	-	-	Yes	-

About Yamaha

Yamaha began in 1887 building reed organs in Hamamatsu and is now the largest musical instrument manufacturer in the world - pianos, guitars, brass, drums, synthesisers - with hi-fi as one branch of that. Its NS-1000M of 1974 used beryllium midrange and tweeter domes, decades before beryllium became a high-end talking point. The NS-10M, a small and famously unforgiving monitor, ended up in more recording studios than almost any other speaker.

A clockmaker who was asked to repair a reed organ, decided he could build a better one, and carried the parts over a mountain pass to Tokyo to have it evaluated.

The NS-10M was never designed as a studio monitor - it was a bookshelf hi-fi speaker that engineers adopted precisely because it sounded harsh and exposed problems, on the logic that a mix that worked on an NS-10 would work anywhere. The tissue paper taped over the tweeter to tame it became a studio ritual. Yamaha also built the DX7 synthesiser, which defined the sound of 1980s pop as thoroughly as any instrument ever has.

Notable models: NS-1000M, NS-10M, CA and CR series, A-S series, RX-A receivers.

Official Yamaha website

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