Icon Audio
HP8 MkII
Introduced 2010$1,495 MSRP
The HP8 MkII is a pure Class A, all-triode, single-ended tube headphone amplifier designed in the UK by Icon Audio, a small specialist valve-amplifier maker. It features fully hand-wired, point-to-point construction with no PCB and a hand-wound multi-tap output transformer, sold through a limited, largely direct or specialist-retailer distribution network.
MSRP
$1,495
Used market · Excellent
$950
-36% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $1,495 at launch to $950 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $1,495 standard; $1,795 Signature (with upgraded tubes and Mundorf capacitors)
- Weight
- 16 lb / 7 kg
- Topology
- Class A, pure triode, single-ended, no printed circuit board — full point-to-point hand wiring
- Distortion
- 0.2% THD
- Power output
- 800 mW per channel, Class A
- Manufacturing
- Designed in the UK, manufactured in China
- Inputs outputs
- 1 RCA input, 1 RCA output, rear ground post, front 1/4-inch headphone jack
- Volume control
- Japanese Blue ALPS potentiometer
- Tube complement
- 2x 6SN7 (CV181) output tubes + 1x 12AX7 input tube
- Output impedance settings
- Low / Medium / High via multi-tap output transformer; rated for headphones from 8-600 ohms
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