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Bought a pair of Magnepan LRS. Should I buy a Schiit Vidar or Bryston 3B-ST?

Has anyone heard both? I plan on travelling so small form factor matters to me but I'd like to stay with class ab, and balanced connections. I like the idea of having monoblocks with the Schiit when I get the money, and I've had good experiences with the brand. (Owned a Saga, a Mani, and a Jotunheim twice) but Bryston has the name recognition. I'm also concerned that upgrade fever would be relentless with the 3B-ST until I got the new and very expensive 3B3.
areasonableman

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Areasonableman,
Those toroids are small value chokes and are probably NOT part of the power supply, though they could be.  More importantly, broken as they are, they will NOT work properly and need to be replaced.  I wouldn't bother with much listening until they are fixed.  To work properly they rely on a continuous toroid iron ring.  If that ring continuity is broken it will not work correctly.  Who knows if it was UPS or some other cause, but GET THEM FIXED!
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