Anyone heard Schiit's Aegir?

No offence to Rockrider, but I concur on his speakers being the limiting factor.  I’ve got a Schiit Vidar, and am amply impressed with the the, uh, amp.

I’ve read some owner’s opinions of the Aegir on SBAF forum, and there is a consensus that it bests the Vidar in all regards, but you need reasonably efficient speakers or a pair of the Aegirs as monoblocks.  

Read Stereophile magazine, they just gave it a Class A rating.   It’s in the same category as amps costing the price of a German car.

Yeah, abery, it does look pretty impressive. I was somewhat shocked that Stereophile would put it in the Class A category, that’s really saying something.  Right up there with the super expensive amps.

I’ve got the schiit Vidar, and almost can’t believe how good it sounds with 3 different pairs of speakers.  Word is the Aegir has an amazing mid range and top end, superseding the Vidar.  

For those in the market, if you have reasonably efficient speakers(say above 92 decibels) and are looking at class A amps for their sound, the 799 Aegir should be on the short list.

if you’ve got a budget of a few grand or more, the best strategy is to get as much speaker as you can afford.  I’ve seen people get a pair of $99 Andrew Jones Pioneer speakers and then go spend $2500 on a Parasound amp.  That would be the wrong way to go.

AQ Rocket 44’s are my main speaker cables and do really well with the Vidar.  I’d be jones’n for some Aegirs too if my speakers were more efficient!
 
Thus my Jones like behaviour is limited to the new Freya +.  I keep telling myself that the balanced inputs will make the Gungnir(who comes up with these names??) even better.