Can any of you Ragnarok owners tell me how long to leave it on for breakin period???????
Are we supposed to break it in
Can any of you Ragnarok owners tell me how long to leave it on for breakin period???????
Can any of you Ragnarok owners tell me how long to leave it on for breakin period???????
Ragnarok has arrived
A little cable porn. Wywires balanced interconnects and Red headphone cable on my Ether Cs and Stereovox coax with several flavors of power cords
Astral, I am so sorry you do not recognize my Van Evers $200 power conditioning strip. At the moment, it is better than no power conditioning at all.
Is there something wrong with my Ragnarok???
It does not get hot. Warm, but not hot!! There are lots of comments from owners about how hot the Raganrok gets because it is Class A.
On another note, I hooked some speakers to it to determine which was the headphone only output setting. I was unable to do so otherwise.
Sounded very nice with a pair of smallish Boston bookshelfs.
A few questions. Re: the heat, what supports are effective in keeping the amp isolated from the rack it sits on? I use a wooden rack and don't want the wood discoloured by burn marks! Reading earlier comments it seems there was a problem with hum on some units - has this now been solved or is it still a problem? Finally has anyone compared the Ragnorak with Sennheiser HDVD600/800 using Sennheiser HD800 or HD800S phones or Oppo PM1 phones? If so what are your impressions - much better/worse or not much difference. I use both phones in balanced mode using Chord Hugo TT as DAC into Sennheiser HDVD800. Wonder if replacing Sennheiser amp with Ragnorak will be a worthwhile upgrade or sideways move?
Burns? Buzzes?
What do you have in mind? My plasma television buzzes and generates considerably more room heat. The Rag is completely silent - perhaps a little warm to the touch, but even then I have to go looking for the warmest spots on the case surface. Hum - no!
Sennheiser headphones will sound better on the Sennheiser amplifier. Rag is a definite planar king - all planar headphones simply sing! For your Oppo, this is not a side grade at all. But for your Sennheiser, well - you're going from one of the most optimized setups for the Sennheiser headphone to a really good solid state implementation. It is going to sound like a really good solid state implementation. Sorry, there's no magic button to make it add bass weight to the HD800. I've read a little, and recently listened to a HDVD800 with the pantheon of Sennheiser headphones, both balanced and single-ended. That amplifier sounds quite nice in balanced, BTW. Simply you're not going to get the same optimization through the Rag. It is going to be a flat, truly transparent (perhaps more so than you realized before hearing a Rag) sonic representation of the analog input.
In short, Rag is not a warm, romantic amplifier. It is a ruthless, truthful implementation of a solid state, which does its best at moving the music and getting out of the way. I like it for my speakers and I like it for my planar headphones. For my taste, I still like a little romance with my Sennheiser headphones, and will typically use a tube. Though the Sennheiser amplifier behaves similarly due to some unique engineering.