[JohnnyCanuck]

  Anyone else with the Rag and the HE-560 find them to be an excellent pairing? I honestly think I enjoy it better than my LCD-3F. I feel like on lesser amps there's not quite enough body with the HE-560 but there's definately plenty of bottom end with the Rag. The soundstaging is just fantastic too, better than the LCD-3F for sure. Quite an excellent pairing.

 
This is through the Rag's balanced output, right?

 

[reddog]

Anyone else with the Rag and the HE-560 find them to be an excellent pairing? I honestly think I enjoy it better than my LCD-3F. I feel like on lesser amps there's not quite enough body with the HE-560 but there's definately plenty of bottom end with the Rag. The soundstaging is just fantastic too, better than the LCD-3F for sure. Quite an excellent pairing.

Thanks for your impressions, I was wanting to get a pair of lcd-3f,, but now the he-560's might do me instead. I just love how my Ragnarok runs my Alpha Prime's in balanced mode.

 

[conquerator2]

Well, I am considering the Gungnir. The Ragnarok is too much in Europe for now... Not enough funds to buy everything

 

[goldendarko]

This is through the Rag's balanced output, right?

Oh yeah. I'm running everything balanced. Much better than the SE output on the Rag

 

[myxlplyx]

Has anyone tried the rag with 805ds? 
I'm using it with LS50s at the moment but just heard a pair of 805ds through a dialogue premium and for a complex orchestral piece like Jupiter from the planets there was no comparison.  The LS 50s are great for Billie Holiday but they fall apart when theres strings and brass and percussion all at the same time.
I have the volume almost maxed on the KEFs so it's pushing the rag to it's limits which could be causing the collapse but I dont have a more powerful amp on hand so I cant do a comparison...
 
I'm seriously considering the 805ds now, though I may end up getting monoblocks and using the rag as a preamp.

 

[7ryder]

  Has anyone tried the rag with 805ds? 
I'm using it with LS50s at the moment but just heard a pair of 805ds through a dialogue premium and for a complex orchestral piece like Jupiter from the planets there was no comparison.  The LS 50s are great for Billie Holiday but they fall apart when theres strings and brass and percussion all at the same time.
I have the volume almost maxed on the KEFs so it's pushing the rag to it's limits which could be causing the collapse but I dont have a more powerful amp on hand so I cant do a comparison...
 
I'm seriously considering the 805ds now, though I may end up getting monoblocks and using the rag as a preamp.

The B&Ws are more efficient.  
 
LS50 - 

Sensitivity (2.83V/1m)

85dB

805d 

Sensitivity

88dB spl (2.83V, 1m)

 

[freddy1201]

Hey guys, i found this!
 
http://schiit.com/news/review/yggdrasil

 

[freddy1201]

Actually, it doesn't say much lol

 

[johnjen]

It sounds like a mangled press release, or perhaps mangled notes taken in haste and then only partially re-assembled later…
 
JJ

 

[estreeter]

  It sounds like a mangled press release, or perhaps mangled notes taken in haste and then only partially re-assembled later…
 
JJ

 
Steven Stone is the TAS equivalent of Stephen Meijas, formerly of Stereophile now a marketing manager at Audioquest. These guys concentrate on the entry-level gear so the editors dont get 500 emails a week saying 'Why dont you include something that costs less than 15K ?'. Not sure why Schiit would try to palm this off as a 'review' - at best, its a 'preview'. Start shipping the thing and you'll get all the reviews you want, and i dare say some of them will be better written than a large percentage of the TAS reviews I've endured over the last 3 years. 

 

[atubbs]

Steven Stone is the TAS equivalent of Stephen Meijas, formerly of Stereophile now a marketing manager at Audioquest. These guys concentrate on the entry-level gear so the editors dont get 500 emails a week saying 'Why dont you include something that costs less than 15K ?'. Not sure why Schiit would try to palm this off as a 'review' - at best, its a 'preview'. Start shipping the thing and you'll get all the reviews you want, and i dare say some of them will be better written than a large percentage of the TAS reviews I've endured over the last 3 years. 

Eh. Think everybody is taking this too seriously. Excerpt of a show report published last year. NBD.

 

[tonykaz]

Mr. Darko,
 
For you the time was long past.  
 
Tony in Michigan

 

[estreeter]

Eh. Think everybody is taking this too seriously. Excerpt of a show report published last year. NBD.

 
It's weird, but I feel like it was last year only a week or so ago. Oh, wait ..... 

 

[NZtechfreak]

For anyone interested, I came across this review of the Rag from someone in Australia using it as an integrated speaker amp primarily, reading some of their other posts they appear to have a very wide experience across a whole slew of speaker amps and seem particularly taken by the Rag.
 
Looking like I will get a chance to try the Rag in Melbourne in February, really looking forward to trying it out with my HE-6. Hopefully I can wait to hear it in person, but I have to admit I am only a few more positive reports of this pairing away from purchasing blindly (deafly?) without having tried it...

 

[conquerator2]

Probably late to the party. Just learned of the price and availability - Q1 2015 & 2299$.
I am excited, but at the same time I am not sure whether to not jump for the Gungnir