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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    My friends, I have returned from hell. A hell of my own making - of endless tangled cables and crawling behind cabinets, where the soundtrack is...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 6, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Preamp is an Emotiva XSP-1 (I always have to google this - why would you make both an XSP-1 and XPS-1). That's a really good point, I warmed them...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 5, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Good suggestion - I did play with my speaker position a while back and while toe in actually didn't seem to do _that_ much, it did improve the...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 5, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    So quick first impressions of mono vs stereo Aegir: The TL;DR seems to be as expected - you trade off on bass vs "sweetness". The bass is much...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 4, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    That makes sense, I was generally thinking about the imbalance between "Left" and "Right" channels in that scenario since the channel driving the...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 2, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Second Aegir just got put in the mail! A couple other things I thought of today while I was musing on setting it up: Is there any issue with...
    Post by: moriya, Mar 2, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    You say that, but I just put an order in for a second Aegir. I'll post impressions (going to try both vertically biamped and bridged) when it gets...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 12, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Oh, I also tried the pocket doors open vs closed - you get an extra 3-5 dB boost by closing the doors in exchange for some pretty harsh...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 6, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Ok, so I actually did it - that was a fun experiment! Setup was my Pro-ject debut 2 carbon direct into my Emotiva XSP-1's phono stage, both sub...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 6, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Ah, when I mentioned 80w that's power draw at the mains - I'm assuming with the class A(ish) Aegir you're losing a lot since it's so inefficient,...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 5, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    I hadn't even thought about that aspect. My understanding is you need to gain match the Vidar to the Aegir by sticking a passive pre on the line...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 5, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Oh man, I've thought of quad monos before (as a thought exercise!) but not this insanity, that's even better! I think you'd still have to gain...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 4, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    So this could be way off base but my mental model was that you get 2x20w to each speaker with vertical biamping. So instead of 20w split between...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 4, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Even better, I have wooden pocket doors. I'll pull them out tonight and see how that works, but I'd honestly greatly prefer to leave them open,...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 4, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Paradigm 85f's. Claimed 93 dB sensitivity, and while that's probably optimistic, it's close. There's some impedance dips in the bass (this chart...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 4, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Sooo...anyone try vertically amping 2 aegirs yet? I’m thinking about adding a second aegir since I rearranged my room and my stereo aegir is...
    Post by: moriya, Feb 3, 2021 in forum: Power Amps
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    The Two Channel Advice Thread

    I have a Denon x3400w and pure direct doesn't sound that much worse to me - the main thing the Audyssey corrects for me is the bass, so really the...
    Post by: moriya, Sep 3, 2020 in forum: Advice Threads
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    The All Purpose Advice Thread

    Does anyone know of a preamp that a) has 1 set balanced in/out b) has HT bypass (either assignable or just an unbalanced in that bypasses volume...
    Post by: moriya, Aug 11, 2020 in forum: Advice Threads
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    So, since writing that I did some more testing and realized that while, yes, the Denon's pre-amp isn't amazing, it's also not terrible. It's...
    Post by: moriya, Jul 6, 2020 in forum: Power Amps
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    Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions

    Has anyone tried vertically biamping 2 Aegirs? I know people have talked about horizontal with Vidar on the bass and Aegir on the highs, but seems...
    Post by: moriya, Jul 2, 2020 in forum: Power Amps
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