Millenium HPA In Ear

This is a really useful little box. I use mine as a small mixer for musical directors in a pit orchestra. I feed one channel with band and click track, and the other channel with the cast singing. The mix feature allows them to set the balance between these 2 mixes, which is really useful, particularly in quieter numbers where the cast need turning up. A real labour saving for me.
The unit is well built, though mine already has a few scratches on it. It's not been particularly misused so I wonder if the paint finish is maybe a little delicate. It really doesn't affect the functionality though.
The balance knob has a centre detent, although this detent is slightly misaligned with the legend on the panel. Again nothing big to worry about.
Would be even more useful if it had a 6.35mm jack socket as well as 3.5mm.
Great product. I'll be buying more.

I bought this to use with Shure SE215-CL in-ear monitors. It revolutionalised playing gigs completely. Being a cello player I need to be able to hear exactly what I'm doing and it prooved very difficult with normal monitors. This devices enables me to control what I hear - and thanks to the 2 inputs, even when there's only one general monitor mix available from the desk, I can take a line from my cello DI's 2nd output into the Millenium HPA's 2nd input and blend the two to however suits me. It takes a while to get used to being stationary, and I would find a wireless setup way more flexible, but this is a decent quality affordable start for in-ear monitoring. It's a sturdy build as well so expect it to last.

The build quality is ok. A few of the connections have been unhappy and Thomann replaced the units free of charge, but the connectors to the headphone jacks are generally all a bit moveable.

They are really fine for stage use overall, just don't over feed them with signal as they have a limiter built in, and we find that some people want to more volume that the unit can provide to in ears. They don't go very low on the impedance at all, but if you are looking for a budget solution for ear buds then this will work for you. Overall they have served us well for what we bought them for, which was stage in ears in a house of worship. And they are balanced, which is really great and at that price point, they seem to be pretty good. I'd buy them again.

I bought this product to test the waters with regards to switching to IEM.

It's reasonably specced, with two line/mic inputs that can be switched between mono and stereo mix modes. What it does lack, is a brickwall limiter which is found on more expensive models, so you do slightly run the ricks of an unexpected volume spike.

Soundwise, for the money it is great, and the individual volume controls mean that it is possible to have a decent amount of control over your mix.

Build quality seems pretty good too, the inputs are good and the whole unit is pretty solidly put together (mine is now mounted on my pedalboard)

Overall a great 'way in' to the world of iem without spending huge amount of cash, so you can decide whether or not it is for you.

I am a member of a newly formed band. We are slowly accumulating the pieces of equipment required for stage performances. Our first few gigs were hampered by increased stage volume with feedback and inability to hear the vocals on stage. On stage monitors made the problem worse. Good wireless monitors are too expensive.
Enter Thomann’s Millennium HPA headphone amplifier. It works really well, mixes the individual instrumentalist’s sound with the main mix easily, helps to reduce onstage noise by doing away with on stage monitors and reducing instrumentalists on-stage volume. Even with ordinary headphones it improves sound clarity, tremendously. It is comparatively inexpensive. We tried other headphone amplifiers but when comparing price and quality, Thomann’s Millennium HPA is easily the best. It is robust, can be transported around to gigs with no damage, can be mounted on stands and links up very easily to the mixer with XLRs. The power adapter for the UK and power source are also excellent. We now have four units, one each for our instrumentalists who do not move around on stage, with a signal splitter from Thomann as the source.
Strongly recommended for this purpose.