Any news of a NAM "plug" headphone modeler?

[MadMaxG79]

Just wondering if anyone had heard any rumors of a NAM player in the headphone "plug" format?

I've been really happy with my NUX Mighty Plug headphone amp for quick practice sessions or just jamming along to a bluetooth track, YT videos, whatever. And I was thinking that the Tonex Plug would be a cool sonic upgrade to the Mighty Plug. But then it hit me: Why has no one made a NAM headphone amp? If it can be done for Tonex captures, surely it can be done for NAM caps as well? I'm not currently into the Tonex platform and would rather wait for a NAM alternative if something like that is in the works.

Would you be interested in something like this?

 

[MadMaxG79]

I'm guessing the closest thing right now is the Valeton GP-5. And I've been toying with the idea of just getting that for quite some time now. But the thing is that the headphone plug format is just so convenient.

 

[2dor]

NAM is a lot more demanding to run which is why we only have 3 native NAM players in hardware to date (Anagram, Dimehead & Sonulab Stompstation Pro).
If something of the likes of the "Tonex plug" comes along, it'll probably leverage either converted NAM profiles (so quality downgrade) or the yet-to-be-released NAM A2 architecture which can take 1 large model and natively trim it down to fit the compute constraints of the hardware it needs to run on (still a downgrade from the native file but in a NAM-supported/specific way).

 

[ragingplatypi]

For devices with a built in battery that run converted NAM files you’re looking at:

Valeton GP-50
Sonicake Pocket Master
Strich Pipe Tones

 

[MadMaxG79]

Maybe the A2 architecture will lead the way for this, who knows. Since it was announced that the Blackstar Beam Mini will natively support NAM profiles, I can't help but think that we're not too far off.