Hello From Minneapolis

[mr_rye89]

Welcome! How do you like that Freya? I’m eyeballing one right now……

 

[Dfries]

Welcome! How do you like that Freya? I’m eyeballing one right now……

It’s a nice sounding pre but the volume/gain is very different verse any pre I’ve used. You need to be at 12 o’clock to really get a some decent sound and 2-3 to a decent listening level. I’m waiting on some NOS tubes to see if that helps with the tube gain. I had been using it with low watt class A diy so that could be part of it too. I haven’t tried the Freya/400 combo on my mains (JBL 4430) until I get the DC protect in.

 

[Gepetto]

It’s a nice sounding pre but the volume/gain is very different verse any pre I’ve used. You need to be at 12 o’clock to really get a some decent sound and 2-3 to a decent listening level. I’m waiting on some NOS tubes to see if that helps with the tube gain. I had been using it with low watt class A diy so that could be part of it too. I haven’t tried the Freya/400 combo on my mains (JBL 4430) until I get the DC protect in.

You need to get a SS pre. Most tube preamps have high output impedance, meant to drive high input impedance tube amps. The Dynaco PAS 3 was like that

 

[FredR]

Welcome! We are a community that aligns big time on one thing, Phase Linear.

 

[J!m]

We also align on threadcrapping.

 

[Dfries]

You need to get a SS pre. Most tube preamps have high output impedance, meant to drive high input impedance tube amps. The Dynaco PAS 3 was like that

You’re correct that it’s a bad pairing. I tried the Schiit with a 1.5 watt SET amp and got much better results.

 

[pioneercollector]

Greetings from across the waters!

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