$1.250 range it appearsā¦ My wallet screams at me enough and I try to keep audio related stuff under a budget you know that. Tempting as it is I would have to pass on that. The only amps I have tried with similar characteristics in sound were the IFI brand however, they donāt seem to open up the sound from my experience so far like the LP can. They also donāt make tubes from the looks of things. I could do without the balanced honestly but I like the sound signature the LP brings to the table and that added tube sound is very lovely
Let me direct you towards the ifi pro ican lol which is in a similar slightly less range used, that thing is packed with features (crossfeed, their good bass boost, tube and solid state modes, and more). I donāt think itās as high preforming as the fire but itās way more versatile, but also now going back to a balanced amp again. Ok back to the magnius lol
Just looked it up. Jesus itās slammed with options. Again though, way outside budget. Wonder if perhaps one of the audio stores has that monster in stockā¦ I would love to sit with that ICAN for a bitā¦ despite the price that thing is a monster it could potentially be my end result I have been looking for if it has the sound signature simiilar to my plat
Couldnāt help myself. Iām wondering if this might be able to just replace the v280 for me. So far the sound is quite thumpy. Easily drives the Diana v2.
I read a bit on headFi about Jasons approach to heat dispersion on the amp. Whatever he did here itās , well, cold. Feels like a class D. Even though I think itās a/b ?
This is a home run for schiit. I canāt hear measurements, but I can definitely say this thing sounds full and rich stacked on the modius. The 789 (which is the only amazing measuring amp Iām aware of that Iāve heard) sounded thin and weak in many scenarios. I donāt care if itās accurate, I donāt want my ears to feel like that ever again.
I want to say high gain sounds fuller to my ear but itās hard to volume match accurately.
Also, can confirm the pot on this is as good as the RK27 on my gs-x mini.
In person, it feels like a heresy/modi stack got inflated to twice their usual size.
FWIW - I feel with Schiitās products affordable options, High Gain was the winner. Gives you a more pronounced sound signature and makes the presentation fuller.
Possibly. Currently the mini has earned a place in my heart so Iām not certain I can be objective. I probably (this is after I move) will do a stack comparison. It will be unfair but the Maximus stack (thatās what Iām calling magnius / modius) vs BF2/mini.
Shaneā¦we always need āanotherā amp. knowing you though, youāll just wait for someone to sell one they tested and donāt want anymore, so you arenāt hit with the depreciation
Pretty much any Transformer coupled amp can do free SE to Balanced conversion and vice a versa, so most none OTL valve and a few very high end SS amps.
You have basically 2 choices when you take a balanced amp and want to feed it to SE headphones.
Throw half the amp away and the associated noise reduction which is what Schiit is doing.
Or find some way to combine the +ve/-ve signals, the options are basically another op amp stage to combine, or use an air gapped transformer.
Throwing 1/2 the amp away is probably the least audible, the opamp solution would probably end up with the best measurements, and the transformer coupling can remove a Cap from the output which is considered desirable in some circles.
Most of the time the balanced will sound better on a balanced amp, but most of the higher end amps have good sounding single ended outs just because you are reducing the quality of an excellent amp balanced to very good when used single ended
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