MikeW
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I haven’t used Lyr3 but I have Valhalla2, although I loved the build quality of V2 but it has a dry treble and higher energy in it and since I own HD800s and 600, I really struggled with it. Did some tube rolling to tame it although it worked but never went away.
LP is more neutral, I guess it doesn’t color anything. I haven’t changed tube in LP so far. Also I felt better headspace and imaging out of LP but I haven’t done A/B testing with Valhalla to directly compare.
Yes I do wish it had gain switch and hence I also ended up ordering Sys. I hope Sys doesn’t color anything as it is passive preamp.
I'd have to get the SYS just for my powered monitors, but I had not considered the fact that it would also solve the gain issue. Bifrost > SYS > LP and Powered monitor
This would allow attenuation for both the powered monitor's and also the LP. Sys is well reviewed, and supposed to be pretty transparent, the attenuation is passive, just use good quality short interconnects.
I knew schiit made large improvements to heat output in LYR3 vs LYR and LYR2, but I did not realize the LP was as close as everyone's saying.
Thanks for the impressions of Valhalla, but that product is completely different, it's a full tube amp and vastly cheaper.
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