Giella ∏ is an all analogue headphone amplifier with a single purpose: To give you a thrill when listening to music.  Therefore its design is simple, yet extremely refined. Like with all Lejonklou HiFi products, the electronic components are measured and selected into tolerances that are impossible to buy. And the specific combinations used in Giella ∏ are chosen with hundreds of comparative listening tests. It's all about listening and deciding what's better and what's worse. What makes the music more gripping and what makes it less.

Giella started with a circuit idea in 2014. The original design was simpler and about 2/3 as expensive as the final version. In the summer of 2020, Fredrik had tuned every part of the original circuit and couldn't improve it any further. He enjoyed listening to music with it, but wasn't thrilled. Fredrik knew that it wasn't good enough. So he redesigned it with a different set of components and the power supply used in the Lejonklou Moving Coil phono stage, Entity. This new version of Giella was a completely different beast. After spending a few months tuning it, Fredrik found himself using it every day.

Giella ∏ was designed to take Giella even further in allowing it to power the least efficient dynamik headphones at the lowest frequencies to the highest levels.  A much more potent regulation stage allows the Giella ∏ to output over 5 times the voltage at 20Hz into a 32 Ohm load!  This more powerful supply according to Fredrik “kicks the circuit of the Giella into a higher level of performance”.  It definitely improves the musical perfromance into any headphone and as a preamp too.

There's no DAC or remote control in Giella ∏, because the absence of anything digital inside Giella ∏ helps it reach a new level of performance without adding massive cost.  Giella ∏ can drive any pair of dynamic headphones, with outstanding musical quality. The better your headphones are, the bigger the difference will be when comparing Giella ∏ to other headphone amplifiers.

The only extra feature on Giella ∏, apart from controlling the volume and driving your headphones, is a left and right analogue output. These can be connected to a power amplifier and speakers. Giella will then function as a very high quality preamplifier. A compact and very engaging system, perhaps for the office or the cottage, can be built around Giella ∏.

Giella is Sami for 'language'.