Passive preamp to a power amp?


I was reading reviews on the Schiit Saga and people were having a hard time differentiating between active and passive mode. In that case, why not just get the Schiit Sys passive and save 300 dollars? 

I'm sure I'm missing something fundamental here.

p.s. Sorry for the deluge of newbie questions. I hope others have the same questions at some point and benefit. 

stuff_jones

Showing 1 response by analogluvr

@kalali+ 1
 I’ve been there and done that and didn’t like it. Tried 2 passives and found exactly that, lacked bass drive lacked dynamics just more boring sounding.  And I didn’t receive any transparency games either.Although I do have one EL 84 amplifier with extremely high gain that a passive seems to work well with. But that’s not in the most transparent system anyway so it’s hard to tell if the passive is actually better or not.But definitely have at it and give it a shot for yourself.