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Considering Schiit equipment

Hi folks,

I love my vintage gear but have an itch to try some new equipment.

I'm looking into a pair of Schiit Tyr F mono blocks and either the Frya +F, Kara F or Saga 2 preamps. 

Mono blocks are a given. I like it better than just stereo.

The preamps are hard to decide on. Frya +F has tubes and I've never had tube equipment. The Kara F seems the same, except no tubes. The Saga 2 is in the running because of the extra RCA  input. I will need 5 RCA jack inputs total.

I see I can get XLR to RCA  adapters but wonder about quality loss with those. 

I can live with one adapter for the rarely used tuner if sound quality loss is an issue with these. 

A big issue with the Schiit preamps is that I don't see a balance control for left and right. Is this something that's done with the remote control or just isn't there? 

 

 

toddsyr
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toddsyr OP
219 posts
 

Thank you. I'm looking forward to many years of enjoyment with them.

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thriftyaudio
190 posts
 

I was impressed with Schiit Bifrost 2/64. Have upgraded twice, but liked the quality.

Tried the Tyr Mono blocks. Nice sounding equipment, but unfortunately they could not drive my speakers without clipping. My speakers can draw down to 0.5 Ohm. Returned the Tyr and tried the Pass XA25. Until Pass comes out with a mono block version of the XA25 I do not plan to change.

cooperdude6
80 posts
 

Benchmark has some affordable XLR to RCA cables (or is it RCA to XLR?). I do not have any experience with them, but took notice b/c my current pre-amp does not have balanced out but now many power amps only have XLR in.

 

yyzsantabarbara
5,543 posts
 

The guy who designed the Tyr and the Wotan posted on Head-fi that he thinks the Wotan is the best amp they have ever made. I owned it and loved it. It is as good as some $8k amps that I have owned. It does need about a month of heavy play for the top end to clean up.

I have owned the Kara F, Saga 2, Freya+ and 2 of them were just OK. The Saga 2 was not good I currently use the $500 Schiit Valhalla 3 OTL/OCL headphone amp as my 2-channel preamp for my office system. I used the stock tubes, and it was better than ALL other Schiit preamps by a lot. However, it is not user-friendly since it has only 1 RCA input and 1 RCA output and no remote. I got an audiophile grade RCA switch made with 4 extra RCA inputs and that works great. I am finding my tubes are already wearing out and need to get some warmish tubes. It is a bit of an adventure wit this unit, but it is easily the best sounding Schiit preamp.

The new Schiit Singular DAC is very good. The best DAC I have heard from Schiit and I have owned the Yggi+ OG | LIM | MIB | Singular. It took the new imersiv D-1 DAC for me to move away from the Schiit Yggi+ DACs. The imersiv D-1 is much better.

 

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