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Not sure if anyone questions the Asgards temperature any longer but I finally got a Infrared Thermometer.   Room Temp 70 degrees (F)   My headphone rig including the Asgard has been powered on for four days, so I'd...

This is also why adding a Single Ended output is not as simple as most think. That being said, I still believe that it should have a SE output.

Based upon what someone wrote I wanted to clarify something.   It is perfectly OK to make a Single Ended (¼” or 1/8” stereo jack) to balanced (4 pin or two 3 pin XLR’s) adapter.   It however is not always OK to make...

        Do you have balanced headphones? If so, which ones? Yes - HiFiman HE-5LE If not, are you looking at balanced headphones or a balanced amp in the future? I use...

Excluding the Luxman amps I don't know of any Japanese solid-state amplifiers. There is the American made Schiit Audio Asgard that I adore with my He Audio HE-5LE's  

To my knowledge Wadia does not, nor have they ever made an SACD Player. That being said, valid point. Quote: Originally Posted by chesebert  Over priced components are not giants. I define giant as the...

Hooked, To have an Analog input would either make it a Preamp, Integrated Amp, Headphone Amp, or have it including a ADC (Analog to Digital Converter). More and more Integrated Amps and Headphone Amps are including a DAC (Usually...

Guarantee that it costs much more to do a fully Discrete Balanced Output than an IC Op-amp based balanced output. The Bifrost is tempting, but I currently have  two < $1000 DAC's for headphone and secondary systems so not...

Before Jason chimed in with some very rough estimates on prices for the upmarket DACs I was thinking $550-$600 for the Balanced (USB of course will add $100) and for the reference DAC I'm betting it will be in the $1100-$1200 range....

You shouldn't automatically assume that a film is a certain genre just because a certain actor is in it. It takes about 5 seconds to find out a little about a film before you go and spend your hard earned money on it. You really have...