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...

For those looking to build an AVC, my advise is to not cheap out on the wires and the RCA connectors. On the cable side, I don’t have any concrete recommendations, as I’m still gathering data and trying out stuff. I went with the Neotech stranded copper to play it safe but I intend on upgrading...

Sibilance can be from the source and some DACs have the tendency to make even non-sibilant recordings, sibilant. I’ve heard many DS DACs that are better at not exaggerating sibilance and some multibit DACs exaggerating or adding sibilance. DACs are just all over the place. Ugh.

Yes, you can. Where the Yggy really pulls ahead over its younger siblings is in a good speaker system. You can hear the Yggy being ahead on headphones too. Our human brains work in funny ways, especially if the price of the Yggy is not within the individual’s comfortable budget. One day it...

Welcome to the AVC club. I’ll be curious about how you will wire the input selection. I was envisioning to avoid a common ground for all the sources and switch both the signals as well as the ground at the switch. Just as an extra effort to prevent ground noise from one source polluting the...

@RubyTiger , Penguins was the only person who felt there was an issue with the Wavelight + DNA combo, but that had more to do with the Wavelight not meeting his expectations in terms of how it sounded. While his impressions of the Wavelight are largely positive, he later heard a Wavedream and...

So nice to hear from the old gang. Hope all you guys are doing great.

Thanks for sharing this. I showed this to someone with a BF2/64 and he picked up both versions of the BF2 OG cards. And his observations align with more or less of what you have described and he is preferring the Nichicon version now. I had a similar experience with the Rockna Wavelight. When...

My friends and I are well aware of those dependencies.

On the Wavelight, USB and AES/EBU are the more relaxed inputs relative to the Coaxial and I2S, with the AES and I2S being superior in performance over the other 2. I never got to try the AES, but a couple of my friends swear by it as the best input for people wanting a more relaxed sound...

@sahmen glad you were able to figure it out.