...I know. Did it sound good, Schiit yeah. Made a few tweaks to the settings to improve the sound field and the bottom end, and colour me impressed. * Before anyone asks, no it's not a true atoms setup, but regardless it's damn good for a living room and comes with little complexity. Read the...

Apparently most people can't stand being the ultimately treated room - an anechoic chamber - for very long. Too quiet, you can hear your blood circulating. Freaks people out, so I've heard.

Metallica got a real dose of 1.21 gigawatts in Munich

So is BBQ & Craft Beer ... (wait for it) ... Boerne's Identity? The door will be closed on my out.

Craft Beers* and Rum, def my top 2 * IPAs and Big, Rich Stouts

Definitely not exclusive .... Big cake fan here. Rum Baba is especially nice

You still using window stickers over there? We ditched them years ago, thank Dog. Don't even have to leave home ... Just pay the bill, online, and move along :sunglasses:

Enough dogs and cats ... time for chickens :sunglasses:

?? for the group. I pretty sure that sending an email to info@schiit.com usually generates an auto-reply so you know the email got into the system and in a queue for a response. Did I remember that correctly? If so, maybe something's broken as I've sent the same email twice in the last 3 days...

RFT is usually Request for Tender. Clearly it really means "Request for Tubes"

The food in Italy is just awesome, and Bologna in particular is even better. Bettered only (in our experience) by Napoli. ... but a different better, not just a better better... if that makes sense? Coffee and Gelato is coming from another world in Italy. And the tomatoes ... OMG Soooo much...

Yeah! "The Hire" is great!

So glad you clarified that

Hmmm, they would need to be really long, slow cooked to be edible though.... and then cardboard tasting springs to mind. Or dried leather & Sweat Socks, literally :astonished: Apologies to @bcowen ... cardboard would be way better than this. *Hush Puppies in Oz are shoes ...

That could dampen the mood/fun :beerchug:

Would be hard to sit the Freya or Kara on top of it then, just sayin'

Yes please!! I would see this as a downstream device, following the pre-amp and adding capability to the system, rather than as a potential desktop/gaming dac/pre-amp, TV add on etc, as per the Syn in it's current incarnation. For me it would be same size as Freya/Kara (and Lokius Max for that...

I think you could easily try it sans sub if they really hit low. Save the $$s and get some whisky to improve the SQ instead :wink:

The XMC-1 was great, don't get me wrong on that! I just wanted a different direction, and squeezing down the space taken up with everything was a driver. I have balanced out to the main amps through the Lokius. I will be in the queue if ever an Ultimate Syn is released. Freya sized ideally...

Yes, exactly that. If I need to adjust the other controls, it's usually only for watching something, or perhaps a tweak for headphones.

For those who are concerned with the lack of a sub level control on the Syn, I use one of these in the line from the Syn to the sub. Works beautifully. I run the sub a bit hot, and this usually at 12 o'clock. Very easy to tweak up or down...

I must/will resist :relaxed: * although Joey from "Friends" would not be able to contain his mirth.

Would you need a sub? Maybe. What's the bottom end on the CVs? A dedicated sub may go a lot lower, but depending on your use case, perhaps not a need.

For me, Syn is awesome. For background it replaced an XMC-1 (after it replaced a number of AVRs over the years). I wanted a a few outcomes: - Centered dialogue - "Ambient" surround, bring the soundstage forward and past the seating position - Subwoofer output - significant size savings as...