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That'd be an additional 50 dollars most likely.
I hear a slight high pitched noise with magni/modi when nothing is playing, mostly on the right channel and it fluctuates. Does anyone else experience it?
That'd be an additional 50 dollars most likely.
Quote:That'd be an additional 50 dollars most likely.
so we have the option to ask for a brushed aluminum?
Check for electrical interference. I had some noise when using the magni even with no dac plugged into it, turns out it was my powerline adapter causing the static. Plugging it into a different room fixed it. Could be a ground loop or something. Trial and error.
You would hope being a 'better' quality amp it would have filters built in for this type of noises
Yea. Powerline adapter sends internet signal through electrical sockets around the house. The magni i guess is sensitive enough to pick up the static caused by this. I never noticed it on my e7 because that isnt plugged into a wall. Would something like the Lyr filter that out? It seems to me its a problem with the design of the electrical circuitry of my house. Having powerline adapter on same outlet as magni walwart is the problem, i dont fault the magni here.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but yea, any of the more expensive models should be fine. One big reason this is so affordable (and why it is more sensitive IIRC) is that little wall wart. Usually the power supply is not only more robust, but built in. This filters a lot of stray signal. With the Magni, however, this is not the case. I know I had a similar grounding issue when I had an Audioengine D1 since it was fed power from the computer. Turns out there was a grounding issue in my mobo.
I'm not sure this is the case, I believe the wall wart is just an AC transformer isn't it?
I believe that I read somewhere that the Magni has a similar power stage to the Asgard.
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Completely, utterly wrong.
Magni's output stage is more similar to a Bifrost's analog stage (on a lot of steroids, that is). It's unlike anything else we make.