{"id":1275,"date":"2014-10-22T13:51:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassdress.com\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2019-03-10T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T17:25:24","slug":"schiit-lyr-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/schiit-lyr-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiit Lyr Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t often review hardware, mainly because I don\u2019t have a great deal of disposable income so I\u2019m cautious in what I buy. This means I end up purchasing things that are either very well establish (and have a million reviews already), or are complete obscure (AKA, I’ve cheaped out and gone for the Chinese knock-off).<\/p>\n

Sadly, about a year ago I changed a lot of things in the studio, primarily changing my main audio interface. I moved from an EMU 1820m (genuinely great unit, highly recommended) to a pair of MOTU 24I\/O, driven from a PCI-424 card. This meant that I know had to find an external headphone amp to drive my well-worn Sennheiser HD 600 cans.<\/p>\n

After lots of boring as fuck reading about headphone amps, I decided that the Lyr is probably the way to go. Nice build quality, lots of good reviews and seemingly lots of happy users. I also liked the idea of disconnecting it from my DAW, and running it directly from the output of my turntable (mmm\u2026 analogue signal flow, glowing tubes, lightened wallet).<\/p>\n

The unit seems to match up quite well with the impedance of the 600s, and offers plenty of amplification headroom \u2013 useful for recording weird and quite stuff.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the first unit I received was DOA. After weeks of dealing with the Schiit staff (apparently the UK isn\u2019t serviced directly by them \u2013 thanks for telling me that when I purchased it), I finally received a replacement unit.<\/p>\n

Problem is, it\u2019s not that great. It\u2019s very noisy (I know it\u2019s tubes but it doesn\u2019t seem to ground signals very well, so get used to that 50\/60Hz hum), it get dangerously warm after only ten minutes use (it\u2019s already damaged my table), and it \u2018pops\u2019 my earphones every time I turn it on or off. What the fuck?<\/em--><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve owned the unit for a year and a half, and though out that time I have spoken to the \u2018impossible to get a hold of\u2019 staff at Schiit about 10 times. The last communication I have from them is the suggestion that the Lyr 2 is much improved, and maybe that\u2019s where I should look for my next purchase.<\/p>\n

How about FUCK NO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Schiit<\/a>

Schiit Lyr Review<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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