I finally had a chance to listen to it back to back against the Susvara and the Abyss Diana (not sure if Phi or MR). IMO the LCD-5 comes out on top of both in terms of detail retrieval, impact, and has the best stock tuning. I did an in-house weeklong demo against the Meze Empyrean Elite and...

The best pairings I’ve heard so far are the Holo Bliss (with full Holo Audio stack including their May DAC), surprisingly the Woo WA33 Luna (I wasn’t expecting it to respond well to a tube amp since it fell hard on its face when I tried it with my Folkvangr, but OTC vs OTL makes a big...

The big selling point for me was it was the only integrated that put out full amp power through the headphone jacks. Admittedly that’s completely overkill at high gain, but there’s no kill like overkill. It’s comforting to know you’ll never find a headphone that it won’t be able to drive.

I got them from vacuumtubes.net but picked them up right before they did a price increase. They’re up to $75/tube now, which is still less than a lot of eBay sellers though. They also include matching at no additional charge.

They’re certainly worth trying, and the GE JAN 5670s plus adapters are cheap online. I ended up ordering a full 10 Western Electric WE396A NOS tubes because I found a good deal and I’ve heard so much about them. I’ve heard those are more tube-y and romantic sounding, so they’ll be a...

I greatly enjoyed my Rag 2. Unfortunately it’s been inoperable for over a year due to being damaged in a flood. I ended up picking up a Midgard and Folkvangr which filled the void, but now if they’re going EOL I need to get off my butt and get it shipped back to Schiit so that it can be repaired.

The right way to do it, at least IMO, is to just advertise your price as whatever it is and set it such that you can cover the G&S fees yourself out of the proceeds. If I’m looking at two ads and one says the price includes all PayPal fees and another says plus 3.5% fees, I’m going to go with...

Got it. Isn’t the whole concept of Unison USB that it isolates all noise from the input though?

So it’s mainly for use when your source and your DAC aren’t close enough to connect directly via USB?

What purpose does the Optical Rendu serve? Would it not be possible to use a USB-C to USB-B cable to connect the MacBook directly to the Yggdrasil? That’s what I do, but with an iPad instead of a MacBook (works well for me since I use Apple Music as my source). Does the Optical Rendu do...

Is that the new prebuilt Aegis?

How do you like that amp overall? How quiet is it? Any hum/buzz in the output? Are the output transformers wideband enough you don’t lose any sub-bass?

Are you running double adapters on some of those tubes?

I switched out my SMSL SU-9 for a Schiit Yggdrasil OG A2 feeding the Folkvangr and it’s a major improvement, there’s some insane synergy there, just ridiculously wide soundstage and precise imaging, and I’m hearing all sorts of bits of songs I hadn’t before. I also got my Focal Elexes back...

That’s a gorgeous color scheme. Congrats.