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Have You Tried One Schiit Aegir with LRS

I’m looking for any real-world experience with this combo, as I have (way too many) hours of reading opinions of better and best options.

I have a curiosity about a single Aegir because I currently use an original Freya with a vintage EL34 Marantz 8b to power the 2022 LRS (not +). The 35wpc gives me the 65-90db I listen at in my 10x15’ studio and sounds gorgeous on the jazz, pop, rock I listen to – except where music gets very dense (e.g. Maggie Rogers "That’s Where I Am.") I compared it to my NAD integrated with nominal 80wpc. I can barely turn up the volume before I get to the level where I’m listening. The NAD sounds better with the dense passages, but less silky everywhere. The Schiit amps fit my budget nicely, and I’ve heard one or two reviews say they enjoyed the single Aegir through LRS. Lots of others jump right to using 2 as monoblocks or complain that they clip or trip protection. No one says what kind of SPL that’s happening at. Is anybody using this combo in a similar use case to mine? Or have monoblocks and want to try it out for me? If it’s a bad combo, I will move down my list of amp options. Actually, if anyone tried the Aegir and ended up with Vidar at lower SPL, that would be helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Peter

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@peterf6 I was close to buying a single Aegir as a small backup lower power stereo amp to my tube amps on rotation duty, then discovered several references through various sources about how running TWO Aegir amps (XLR/Balanced) is reportedly "so much better", functionally, musically. And, I don’t run an XLR capable preamp, RCA single-ended only - so the idea stopped there. My 6SN7 tube preamp isn’t going anywhere, so back to RCA cable options only for me.

Ended up going for purchase of a used higher power stereo amp that I’ll upgrade, similar to what @jl35 did with the Odyssey situation. Would love to have sprung for a pair of Schiit Tyr amps - but not worth the cost to me as backup amps. However,  IF two of the Aegir amps could function in RCA/Single Ended cable mode instead of the XLR-only requirement, I might have tried a pair of Aegir amps. No dice.

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