hickamore
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| Schiit Freya+(Plus) Definitely oldhvy got a defective unit. Though Schiit does warn rather prominently that these run HOT. Knowing that upfront, you wonder whether the four nicely separated 12AU7s in Rogue RP-7, running cooler but also taking 45 seconds to warm up, w... | |
| Wireless vs. USB Hi Erik,Maybe I should rephrase the question.My specific thought is replacing Macbook Pro + Cambridge 851N with Aurender X100L player ($3500) + Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ($2500). The former has only USB out. In that budget range, what if anything would... | |
| Rogue RP-7 vs. PrimaLuna Dialogue Tube Preamps I have not yet tried any tube rolling in Freya but will get around to it and follow these suggestions from you veterans. Thanks for sharing. I feel sure the JJs which came with mine do not reveal the device's ultimate sonic potential. Just establi... | |
| Rogue RP-7 vs. PrimaLuna Dialogue Tube Preamps The Dialogue has been discontinued. Current version with balanced in/out is the EVO 400 which I am still considering along with Rogue and Raven. Also like the Linear MicroZOTL, but this comes only in black and I am done with black buttons on a bla... | |
| Will Subwoofer Help? "The events of the past, through lapse of time, have fought their way, past credence, into the country of myth." -- Thucydides | |
| Will Subwoofer Help? hombre, thank you. Was just hoping for someone to confirm that. Free expert consultation is grand resource. Now I can quit chasing phantoms & go do some detail gardening or rearrange wine bottles. Like maybe everyone, too much dead time on my ... | |
| Will Subwoofer Help? m-db, I'm printing out your answer for reference as you've answered a couple additional questions for me. I had forgotten about serial connection for multiple subs. At least everything is on a dedicated circuit and will so remain. Many thanks.hom... | |
| Does anyone collect something else other than music. Wine. European.Thousands of bottles. The right choice for any occasion.Women, yes, earlier in life. Experience, yes, all over, and often and various, so many lucky encounters. Books, from philosophy to botany, and not just music and audio kit. Has... | |
| Will Subwoofer Help? Thanks, miller & ozzy. I guess just start out running everything full-range, then tweak crossover if/as needed. Think I've got tower placement figured out, and from what I have read, sub placement doesn't really matter. Though I would start be... | |
| Left/Right Channels LOL miller & iso. | |
| Unreal prices Old and rare and durable are nice. IF not since supplanted by objectively superior products. Only discontinued legends I would crave are non-electronic, and almost all non-mechanical. The exception would be Mouli manual tin rotary cheese grater. W... | |
| Schiit Freya+(Plus) Not having compared the two sonically, I can't say. But if balanced operation is important to you, the Freya+ offers two balanced inputs as well as balanced output. There are other functional differences as well. So I would first compare the two f... | |
| Why do you think Bi-Wiring improves the sound ? I bi-wire because the speakers are so designed & mfr encourages & already had the wires from last setup. Adding a second pair of binding posts just to enable bi-wiring strikes me as nutty, as others have said. Nobody thinks bi-wiring is h... | |
| Schiit Freya+(Plus) Thank you for an excellent idea. Will find a suitable test recording handy on both LP and CD, plus streamable from Tidal. (CD runs COAX into DAC rather than RCA into Freya -- a test within a test). Given any takeaways I can then experiment with NO... | |
| Schiit Freya+(Plus) wolf_garcia, are your good results irrespective of input source (DAC or analog)? Tubes give me great improvement with DAC input, but sound overdramatic with phono & tuner inputs. |