SchiitMjolnir2

SchiitMjolnir2 t1_ja96c9a wrote

Reply to comment by thatcarolguy in How do I listen for "detail" in music? by West-Cheek-156

As a baseline, use your quarks to listen to the song until the "I'm okay part"

Here's the original lyrics (no additional details) >Hey, I was doing just fine before I met you >I drink too much and that's an issue >But I'm OK

As you can see, there's only one "hey" rather than two before the "I was doing just fine" starts, and that's because only the better transducer can reveal that second "hey" in the mix. The same with the "I'm okay" part where the better transducer will reveal that there's two repetitions of "okay" after the original line in the form of "okay, I'm okay"

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_ja6kfs3 wrote

Reply to comment by MrRIP in CanJam2023 First Day Impressions by MrRIP

I've heard both during my time at CanJam 2022 Socal. From what I recall, WA33 is more technical and less rolled-off in the treble than the Envy. I believe, I used the low-impedance setting in the WA33 and medium impedance with the Envy with the Suvara pairing. The Envy has a more "expressive" mids than the WA33, and both have that concert-hall imaging that is the trademark of tube amp.

When it comes to tube amps, the best breed would be the "Directly Heated Triode" Single Ended Tube amp (WA23, WA5 LE, Feliks Envy, Eddie Current amps) or Fully Balanced Push-Pull directly heated triode amp (WA33). They differ in output power as well as output transformers and as such will react differently with the same headphones. Only way to tell is to actually demo them with your headphone of choosing.

> Also is every input hole like adding gain on a standard amp?

Nope. If you use two of the headphone amp outs at the same time, you increase the load of the amp (on the output transformer specifically) and depending on the sensitivity of the headphones used, one will sound louder or quieter than the other

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_ja6fziy wrote

Reply to comment by MrRIP in CanJam2023 First Day Impressions by MrRIP

Glad you liked the sound though since I own their cheapest tube amp which is the Forge 32/300 ohm. With my DCA Aeon X Open, there's a noticeable difference in dynamics between 32 out and 300 ohm headphone out and I actually prefer the 300 ohm out since it takes away the mid-bass bloat (it's the output impedance effect on FR) while revealing a snappier, tighter grip on transients. It changed the tonality to reveal a better technicality aspect of the Aeons

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_ja4ck2o wrote

Reply to How do I listen for "detail" in music? by West-Cheek-156

I define detail as small things in songs that literally disappear when going back to worse transducers. I have a reference track that only the better transducer can reproduce:

The intro lyrics from The Chainsmokers - Closer has buried detail that a decent headphone (at least a Drop DCA Aeon X Open or maybe even HD6XX) or a decent IEM (IEM that don't come as a freebie) can easily reproduce

Here's the lyrics with the extra detail:

>Hey *hey*, I was doing just fine before I met you
>
>I drink too much and that's an issue but I'm okay *okay, I'm okay*

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the ones with the * are the extra detail. The *okay, I'm okay* part will be easier to hear than the *hey*

Try with any inferior headphones first as a baseline then try again with the best headphone in your collection

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_j9lazr1 wrote

Reply to comment by blargh4 in Tube Amp users: how do they differ from Solid State? by GarlicBiscuits

SS discrete amps are designed to avoid capacitors in the signal path, lots of feedback to minimize distortion (see Schiit's topology with the Magni+: "Topology: Fully discrete, fully complementary all-bipolar, symmetrical current-feedback design with driver stage and Vbe multiplier, no capacitors in the signal path and DC servo") while tubes are the opposite. OTL tube amps have capacitors in the signal path (except for Schiit Folkvangr) which imparts its own distortion characteristics to the sound

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_j9l6zh3 wrote

Reply to comment by GarlicBiscuits in Tube Amp users: how do they differ from Solid State? by GarlicBiscuits

It's a good rule that that the more components after the input tube stage (e.g. 300 B tube SET amps), the more colored it sounds because, transformers and capacitors will have their own distortion characteristics that will affect the timbre of the mids. Some OTL tubes are more "solid state" sounding such as the Schiit Valhalla 2 because it does not have output transformer and the capacitor plus the tube used have more "linear" tonality/signature than others. Other OTL amp such as Feliks Audio Euphoria have a power tube that has distortion characteristics that affects the timbre of the mids so not all OTL will sound solid state-y

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_j9kz1r1 wrote

Reply to Tube Amp users: how do they differ from Solid State? by GarlicBiscuits

Some tube amps (regardless of whether they're OTL or OPT or hybrid) sound indistinguishable from solid state while some have coloration / different timbre (not necessarily tonality or FR in the mids but through harmonic distortion) and the area where the difference is observed the most is in the upper to mid-bass (due to output impedance)

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SchiitMjolnir2 t1_j6lukp6 wrote

Reply to DCA Expanse Synergy by LuckyX222

Expanse and Aeon X Open share common preferred amp pair ups IMHO. I like them out of KT88 triode-strapped SET amps with high output impedance (300 ohm headphone out of my ampsandsound Forge amp)

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