Hello,
The streamer looks interesting.
It also seems to be able to connect its own Dac via USB.
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It dosent look bad at all. But it does look weird. Lol. The beautiful aluminum paired with the light wood cups just looks off.
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I just got an email from Schiit that they’re releasing some solid state amplification with 6SN7 tube pinouts (e.g. Lyr 3):
https://www.schiit.com/products/lisst
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Gotta agree there, if anything would like to see a dark wood instead there.
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Reminds me of Jaffa Cakes.
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Eager to see feedback on rolling these into the Schiit devices — and even rolling the dice on them into some other devices (despite the warnings)
My tube knowledge is limited, but AFAIK Tubes are discrete (and modular) amplifier circuits? So a solid state tube could possibly be an opamp, or a discrete amp on a PCB in a tube housing?
Iirc this is not the first time its been done. I think I remember some solid state tubes in the guitar world. I think they had a very luke warm welcome
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I’d be careful with them, tubes are fundamentally voltage amplifiers, something like a 6SN7 can have plate voltages up to 450V but it could also be as low as 50V, I doubt Schiit is designing these things as general replacements for a 6SN7, but instead is designing them to work with the way 6SN7’s are used in their designs.
My guess is it’s discrete, some sort of power transistor, and some resistors in the tube. There is no guarantee that it’s designed to work with other 6SN7 circuits, and if it can fail closed circuit, you could damage what your plugging it into as well as the device itself.
It probably also has limited voltage output range, that even if electrically compatible, could cause it to clip in some devices, that could easily destroy a speaker or headphone connected to the amp.
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It’s very common in the guitar space to use SS plug-in replacements for rectifier tubes, but I haven’t seen it with power tubes. Not that I pay a lot of attention anymore.
Most people don’t like the SS rectifiers, because a large ammount of an amps aggressiveness comes from how it’s rectifier sags under load.
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Schiit advises you NOT use in other devices, this is copied directly from them:
“Do not use in: any other manufacturer’s amp (no guarantees they’ll work, or survive)”
and
" Hey, this is cool! Can I use them anywhere tubes are used?
Not necessarily. We designed these tubes specifically for Freya, Saga, and Lyr 3.
But I can try them in other stuff, right?
Again, no guarantees. They might not work. They might get too hot. They might fail. Don’t blame us—we’re being very clear on LISST being for Schiit devices only.
What the hell is inside these things, anyway? Magic?
Tiny tube fairies are singing in happy contralto voices to the music you pass by their electrified ears.
No, seriously.
We have compacted tubes using 3 billion pounds of force into a solid-state device.
Come on!
Okay, fine. We see how it is. What’s inside are two depletion-mode MOSFETs, together with minimal support circuitry to protect them against static, and to set the gain necessary for our products. There’s no “triodization” or other tricks applied to make them act like tubes, or have curves like tubes. They’re just good, linear, solid-state devices…in a can."
caveat emptor
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Enleum just officially announced and put on preorder their new headphone amp.
Some pretty interesting thing in here, price will be 3K USD.
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http://softone.a.la9.jp/english/Model10/M10-1-eng.htm
New headphone amp from a company with a funny name, tried one of their older headphone amps while I was in japan and it was great for the price, this looks pretty cool for 200 bucks, wonder how it fares
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Might just be because that’s what they’re known as over there. iriver/astell and kern really popularized the use of 2.5mm for balanced in the portable market, hifiman popularized the 3.5mm balanced jack in portables (later ifi), and sony was the creator for the 4.4mm jack. So it makes sense, but yes looks a bit strange
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Hmm not gonna lie I’m kinda intrigued.
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3.5mm trrs gang unite
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Same, it’s really not that expensive, even with import taxes at this end.
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https://en.cayin.cn/features/7/59/582.html
New cayin tube amp under 2 grand, looks pretty nice
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