Could you please try the Freya in the passive mode and see if it improves? There are quite a few changes in design between the 1 and the 2, and the protection trigger might be set at a different point on the 2.

Could you try the Freya in the Passive mode and see if it gets better or worse?

If budget allows, might I recommend going with silver windings. Slagle accidentally wound a copper primary and silver secondary for a friend of mine and you can see how even that out-resolved Slagle’s copper only SUT. Another friend who has heard the full silver, says it is among the best SUT he...

These tubes have 2 x triode sections housed within a single tube and can act as 2 separate tubes. https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/tube-amps-101-guide-for-dummies.12900/

I am glad it wasn’t bricked. Yea I’ve observed sonic changes between FWs too. But it’s not something discussed loudly in the public as 95% folks are skeptical on such things and only leads to arguments.

You can't use Apple Music or iTunes for FW updates even with Lossless Switcher. You need to use a 3rd party software that do bit-perfect output like Pine Player, Audirvana+, Jriver Media Center, Roon to update the FW on the WL using a Mac. I would recommend the Pine Player as it is a minimalist...

Well, power is just a different expression of current as, P = V x I. For a specific loudness, Susvara will be drawing the same current from any amp you drive it from. But why it sounds more authoritative and well driven on some amps versus the rest is the question. I know people have had great...

I like it. Without it, when the track's sample rate doesn't match output sample rate, there is a very slight glare. It isn't night and day. But because the Lossless Switcher is free and it doesn't get in the way of the audio signal but only sets the output sample rate to match the track's sample...

Awesome man. How does your 801a amp compare to this one?

I’ve used Moode, Volumio and GentooPlayer and all worked fine. Yea, that does seem weird.

Short answer is, yes. I have used the I2S from Pi2AES with the Wavelight. Wavelight has the option to adjust the I2S pin setting to the 3 popular standards on the market. The question becomes if the I2S from your Pi HAT is one among these 3 standards. If yes, then yea it will work.

I am on that forum too and my experience was not as extreme. I found the XLR to be a touch more refined, a tad less grainy, slightly larger stage and slightly better separation. To go into my single ended amp, I tried using Jensen ISOMAX Bal to SE transformer to take advantage of Wavelight’s Bal...

What does the Audial S5 sound like relative to the Adagio?

I used to own a Wavelight but I found it a bit hi-fi sounding in terms of timbre. A friend of mine owned a Wavedream Edition and he used the term 'sour' to describe the timbre. My guess is, my friend and I were referring to the same characteristic. But many of my friends actually own Rockna DACs...