Be careful, some rambunctious individuals hereabouts will insist you need a second Vidar.
Personally I have put my Vidar purchase on hold until the Fall. I am doing a different upgrade first- I am buying a new listening room! It comes with a nice house attached, and I need to focus on this before going dual Vidar.
My favorite amp in my house is the Rogue Cronos Magnum II Integrated tube amp and I believe the Vidars have better grip,resolution than the Rogue amp which is quite good imo.The Rogue amp is more powerful as I suspect your A21 would be compared to 2 Vidars in monoblock mode.
The Cronos Magnum is a helluva amp! The A21 is less powerful with 8ohm speakers (250wpc) but probably about equal to Vidar monblocked with 4ohm speakers (400wpc). I've got PBN Montana Monitors that are 8ohm 100wpc that I may move into this rig, but I'm going to see how the Vidars handle my 4ohm ELAC UF-5's first. Haven't seen much feedback yet on how it works with 4ohm speakers monoblocked so I'm not sure what the chances are they can handle all of that power.
It makes sense to go dual mono with a 84 db speaker, but something like a 94 db Impact, it is not required. The LS50's require ten times the power to reach the same volume as a high efficient 94 db + speaker.
Double the power for every 3db decrease. Or ten times the power for every 10db decrease.
It makes sense to go dual mono with a 84 db speaker, but something like a 94 db Impact, it is not required. The LS50's require ten times the power to reach the same volume as a high efficient 94 db + speaker.
Double the power for every 3db decrease. Or ten times the power for every 10db decrease.
It makes sense to go dual mono with a 84 db speaker, but something like a 94 db Impact, it is not required. The LS50's require ten times the power to reach the same volume as a high efficient 94 db + speaker.
Double the power for every 3db decrease. Or ten times the power for every 10db decrease.
Impedance and electrical phase angle also apparently make a big difference. My ATC SCM19 are about the same efficiency (~84dB) as the LS50s, but are a relatively stable 8 ohm speaker with generally benign phase angle making them a fairly easy load to drive (although require more of a turn on the volume knob to get up to the dB you may want compared to higher efficiency speakers).
One Vidar is doing some pretty damn good things with those speakers right now...
Hey Jason, you may want to update these questions on the Saga and Freya FAQs pages:
So where are your power amps to match this preamp?
Patience is a virtue.
But I need a power amp now!
We’re unaware of the current alien plot to secure, contain, and eliminate all audio power amplifiers on the planet, so we believe there are any number of good amps out there for you to choose from.
On the Web Site Products page forYggdrasil, "Specs" refer to Gen 3 USB.
"Clock Management: Bitperfect clock management at all native sample rates via Adapticlock analysis and VCXO/VCO regeneration, plus asynchronous USB Gen 3 module"
You're welcome! With my 2 channel setup using Freya and a single Vidar, I am really enjoying the sound I am getting from my Tekton Double Impact speakers. How do you like your speakers?
I really like the Impacts. It amazes me how tonally accurate they are. When I first saw a picture of them several months ago; I thought they were a joke, and there was no way they could sound as good as everyone who owned them said. Man was I wrong. I would buy them again (or the doubles) in a heartbeat.
That's what I said when I bought my McIntosh integrated. It's now being replaced by a Gumby, Freya and 2 Vidars. I no longer make statements that I'm done. I'll be done when the money's gone
Does the Mjolnir 2 produce more overall heat than the Valhalla 2? I currently have the latter, and whilst I'm not concerned about how hot the unit itself is, I find the room it's in gets rather warm after a couple of hours of usage, and I'm not sure I would want something that will make it even warmer.
The Cronos Magnum is a helluva amp! The A21 is less powerful with 8ohm speakers (250wpc) but probably about equal to Vidar monblocked with 4ohm speakers (400wpc). I've got PBN Montana Monitors that are 8ohm 100wpc that I may move into this rig, but I'm going to see how the Vidars handle my 4ohm ELAC UF-5's first. Haven't seen much feedback yet on how it works with 4ohm speakers monoblocked so I'm not sure what the chances are they can handle all of that power.
One more EITR in the wild. Replaced the Wyrd in my office headphone stack. After the normal frustrating windows settings (JRiver is picky sometimes), I was up and running within minutes. I'm pretty amazed how much quieter it is. I'm at work so not much time for critical listening but I can say for sure it is an improvement. It's staying. I will say that the ever so slight edge to certain tracks seems to be gone now and the music in general seems to be a bit more engaging and enjoyable. Kudos to the guys for a cool little box of digital pixie dust.
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