Schiit not that Good?

Sound quality is directly linked to:

25% room acoustic

25 % electrical clean house grid

10 % mechanical vibrations resonance issue

15% various noise cleaning methods for the gear
( not so much the choice of cables but first and foremost cleaning the connector and the connection also isolating the component from one another electrically speaking)


25 % only for the gear quality
(Because at the end good amplifier are good and good speakers good with not so much potential differences inside one level of audio quality scale...)


My evaluation is right, " inside" each one of the 3 level of price/ quality scales in audio ... For example exchanging a 1,000 amplifier for a 10,000 dollars one invalidate my percentage ratio... Same for the speakers... If you give me the right room and electrical grid I will make low cost speakers sound like costly one that are located in another not so good room...


I also learned painfully that the best  ratio price/ quality product are not necessarily the most hyped and known one ( except vintage one that are recognised legend with time passing)...Most of the times less known products are the best, not the totally unknown product for sure, but the underestimated one by most.......This is my experience paid with my money... :)

I had 2 Aegirs, the first was too sensitive and shut itself off with little prompting (at not so loud levels), and the one that replaced it would only shut off at more extreme levels so I assumed it was working as designed...still, although I don't listen at high volume much, I do sometimes crank the system a bit if I'm next to the listening area in my kitchen, and with Klipsch Heresy IIIs it really should be more difficult to trigger the shut down mode as they get loud with relatively little power. Still, it shut down with no real heat issues and before any audible clipping. Anyway, with high hopes for some Class A magic prompted by curiosity from the Stereophile review, I listened to a bunch of my faves on the Aegir. A very resolving amp with a sweet tone...but...with my Dennis Had amp nearby and some furrowed brow Aegir sessions wondering exactly what was lacking, or at least why there was some sense of artificiality or a hard to pinpoint lack of ultimate accuracy of timbre...I put the Had tube amp back in the system. Note that this amp, using various tube options over the last couple of years, delivers pinpoint accuracy and musical micro resolution, and a slam that surprises you from just 12 to 17 or so watts...clear as a bell. Anyway, although I consider the Aegir a very nice design that should satisfy many, it just couldn't beat my little single ended masterpiece from ol' Dennis, so back it went. My curiosity regarding the Pass XA25 has waned somewhat but I'd still like to try one someday, but no hurry. Bottom line: To my ears my Dennis Had Inspire Firebottle HO simply sounds like music should, has been a reliable little workhorse since day one and never lacks for anything in my particular rig.

Hi wolf and thanks for your description regarding your time with the Aegirs.  My speakers are a more difficult load to drive than yours and I was a bit worried that the XA25 would have a problem with them, but the Aegirs tempted me anyway.  I have the Schitt sys and for what it is I like it, and there may be a Freya + in the future for my second system.

I have gone a different direction than most, and have recently had a pair of Museatex Meitner mono amps modded (pretty much totally new amps inside) by John Wright who was associated with Meitner, and am happy with them. 

Thanks again,

Wolf - should try the Vidars

I have zero interest in ANY transistor power amp (I’ll read about them...otherwise, no no no) in my main listening heap, class d or a or a/b or yer mama. I’m limited to efficient speakers, but that’s just fine as they tend to hurl the sound at my earballs with more gusto than otherwise, and my simple single ended tube amp sounds so damn good. I’m now becoming more curious about OTLs like the Atma-Sphere stuff (although I’m not so sure there is anything "like" Atmas-Sphere’s amps)...perhaps that’s my next step if I can deal with 16 tubes instead of 4...I might have to talk to Ralph...balanced stuff appeals to me, and I like the word "circlotronic."