This Schitt is totally refreshing in the world of high end audio!


Do yourself a favor and watch this when you have a few quiet moments.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBFtqNpC7U

The guys from Schitt Audio talk candidly in a way that is almost abnormal for manufacturers.  I found it informative, hilarious at times, and totally refreshing.
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Have a Freya on order due to receive this Thursday. 
I been reading about them for a year now.
It's replacing a DIY Aikido Octal pre.
Will be interesting to hear the difference.
Well it looks like FedEx lost my Schiit. The Freya is nowhere to be found.
An email to Schiit customer service resulted in a very quick response and another sent out immediately. They kindly asked me to return one if they both showed up. A  prepaid return shipping label would be sent to me. I couldn't ask for anything more. Kudos to their customer service.

To be continued....
Hi Tom,

Was just delivered. Need to get it opened and fire it up. The original sadly never made it. Probably stuck on a dock somewhere. I have lots of NOS tubes to try as my monoblocks use the same.  I'll give it a listen and report back.
Thanks George,

I did install the supplied tubes mostly to get a baseline to compare to the others I have. Although the tube sockets are pcb mounted, they're very solid. I couldn't detect any board deflection when installing the tubes. How'd they do that? It sounds great and I'm very happy with my purchase. My aikido is no slouch but it has a dry or ss sound to it. It will be mated to a KT-120  pp tube amp. The Freya seems at home with my OTL's. Only issue is that Neil Young's voice has a odd ring to it. Oh wait never mind. I'm using the SE out rca's atm until I can get a decent balanced cable. No hum. Seems to pull the vocals and instruments out gives them definition if that makes sense. I'll give it some break in time 
and chime in again. Thanks everyone for the recommendation. Now I need to take a look at the DACs and that turntable sounds very promising........

     Best Regards, Mark
@celander 

Do you recall which speakers they were using at the show?

It's my opinion that the name got the company the initial recognition necessary in a very crowded and sometimes confusing market.
They have however continued to grow and excel with excellent products.
Had the quality been lacking, they would have already went belly up.
Just my thoughts. 
I modded my Schitt. I replaced the Wima coupling caps (4) with Jantzen Audio 2.2uF 800V Z-Superior Capacitors in my Freya. NOS Sylvanias helped a lot. Not broken in yet but it sounds very sweet if that makes sense.
After about 15 hours of playtime, the sound opened up. It's absolutely
amazing. My wife walked in and was very impressed. Hard to describe. 
Like putting your glasses on. Everything is in focus. An easy mod to perform also. The only thing left is to replace the high voltage rectifier bridge with a discrete hexfred bridge. I also put an rf remote control on the Freya's outlet. Came with a key chain remote. 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/16A-600V-18-nanoseconds-High-speed-Rectifier-Bridge-Circuit-for-audio-amplifier/112601157812?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

I've also put a cousin of the 6SN7 in the voltage amplifier positions.
Initial thoughts are wow. They're still breaking in.
The other day my wife actually wanted to know how to turn everything on so she could listen when I'm not at home.
I've been married 6 years and that's the first time she's asked.