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| Any Ohm Walsh owners using tube amp? Ohm Walsh's do seem to like good control over the bass, and most tube amps, due to the output transformers, tend to have a lower dampening factor. That helps explain the tendency for many Ohm owners to go for higher powered Class D amps. That sa... | |
| A DAC to help overcome compressed music? As others have noted, once a recording has been mixed, processed and released to the public, it is what it is. What you are talking about is unscrambling scrambled eggs. Good luck. The other problem is that if you do stumble across a piece of equ... | |
| Schiit amps, freya preamp I have a Saga+ and Aegir amp and am very pleased with them. The Aegir is only 20 watts/channel at 8 ohms (40 @ 4) so it is not a high power amp if that’s what you need. However, I am easily powering a set of Ohm 1000s to my preferred listening lev... | |
| Schiit Modius vs Bifrost Multibit The Modius is a delta-sigma DAC with a switching power supply. Both of these help save money. The Bifrost is a true multibit ladder DAC with a linear power supply. On the Schiit web site, read the FAQ tab for the Bifrost. It gives a basic expla... | |
| Tubes for Schiit Saga I have a Saga+ which, as you likely know, has a passive mode which only acts as a volume control, and an active mode which uses the tube as a unity gain buffer. The tube that came with my preamp is incredibly neutral. You have to listen very close... | |
| Schiit/DSD Question Here are Mike Moffat's comments on DSD from a Headfi article. Mike is the cofounder of Schiit and developed the first ever standalone DAC back in the 1980s. "I have never published my DSD opinions. Here they are. I say opinions because th... | |
| Schiit Freya order delay, no clue when it will arrive That's interesting that they haven't updated their web site. They have some other products that show "backordered" with availability dates not until later in January or even February. In any case, good luck. | |
| Schiit Freya order delay, no clue when it will arrive Best to email them. They have a stated policy of responding to emails much faster than phone calls. | |
| Schiit Freya order delay, no clue when it will arrive I just checked their web site and they say the Freya is "in Production, Ships 7-10 days." They've been accurate concerning the availability of items I've bought in the past, so hopefully this is correct. | |
| Advice on a budget R2R DAC @kalali -- where did you get your Mulitbit information? They are R2R designs. From the Schiit web site: "Today, virtually every DAC uses a reduced-bit technology known as "delta sigma." Multibit DACs have largely gone by the wayside, thanks to le... | |
| Flat speaker sound/preamp the culprit?/external EQ needed? You may also have a feedback issue. Turntables can be very sensitive to this and need to be well isolated. Kind of like having a microphone too close to the speakers on a PA system. However, with turntables, instead of a squeal, the feedback is in... | |
| Advice on a budget R2R DAC Have you considered one of the Schiit Multibit (R2R) DACs? Two of their three models are within your price range brand new -- the Bifrost and Gungnir -- and have good reputations. The Schiit DACs are designed by Mike Moffat, one of the legends in ... | |
| Michi X-5 Integrated amplifier (Where to buy?) If you check out the Rotel web site, it looks like there are 10 or 11 dealers here in the U.S. which is where your profile shows you're located. I'd suggest working with one of them. If you buy it directly from overseas, you'll end up with a gray ... | |
| Room correction, DSP for dummies. @recluse -- if you want to experiment on a relatively low cost basis, here's an option for you. Buy a Raspberry Pi 3B+ or 4 ($30 or $40) along with a HiFiBerry DAC+DSP Hat (under $100 and fits on the RPI). A case for the boards, a power supply and... | |
| Does Step-up transformer affect the Sound Quality? For a DAC, using a decent quality step-up transformer should not be an issue. The power from your local generating plant has already been though a number of transformers to change voltage before it got to your house. Adding one more to the string ... |