I have both these amps and bifrost mb and hd600. I've tried the asgard 2 a few times, but always go back to the valhalla 2. It's just a smoother sound to me, easier to listen to, more forgiving of variations in quality of source material. It's quite possible the A2 is more accurate overall. I am...

Yeah, the volume knob on mine doesn't get anywhere near skin-burning temperature. Just warm. Something must be wrong.

Re. Class A   From a user perspective, what I'd want to know (I think) is that when the amp is running at rated power are all the power output devices continually flowing current somewhere in the linear part of their operating range or are half of them "off" at most points in time. May be...

Audio connectors are a fact of life in this hobby. As long as everything is clean and making good tight contact what you want to do is completely valid so go ahead.

Another long-time lurker, ready to do some posting.   HD600, Val2, Bimby, MBP

No, it's not correct to join two outputs together with a simple Y-splitter cable. That's actually an application for the Sys as it was intended, feed the two headphone preamp outputs into its two sets of inputs, then the selectable Sys output goes into a single receiver input.   When you say...

After getting my Bifrost MB a couple weeks ago, and finding it had the distortion issue when switching to a different sample rate using macbook usb out, I tried the built-in optical out instead. It did it with that as well.   Had been running for ten days with no improvement, though that...