![]() My SF Line 1 is into Parts ConneXion () for the "SE+" upgrade as well as the Volume control repair and chip upgrade. I'm hoping the the SF Line will preserve more of the inherent transparency than the Freya + - the Line 1 doesn't have a Passive Mode :| However I also fined that with certain types of music - in particular large-scale orchestra - I loose too much transparency, consequently I end up listening using the Freya +'s Passive Mode, (in my case that doesn't loose any dynamics). I have tried my current Schiit Freya + in Tube Mode which produces tube effects of a mild sort. By the contrast the Purifi is super transparent and resolved and also hyper-dynamic but lacking in warmth. The Monarchys were a high-bias class A type, fairly transparent but a also a bit mellow in presentation. But today I's driving a VTV Audio Purifi stereo amp. I liked back in the day but that was with different associated equipment most of the time I owned it, I was using a pair of Monarchy SM70 Pro's. the Line 1 is whether I will like it today. The first bought in 2009 and sold in 2011. If I like my new Line 1 I'll like go for their SE+ upgrade. pcX offers upgrades to the Line 1 and most SF products. The owner there, Chris Johnson, was an original owner & founder of Sonic Frontiers. Fortunately, though, their equipment can still get excellent service at Parts Connexion (pcX) (). Sonic Frontiers has been out of business for 20 year at least. Both were sold for reasonable prices - I can't afford to hang on to equipment I'm not using. I'm not sorry about these going, (at least not for now :rolleyes:). I sold on both the Pass X150.5 and the ARC preamp. Come to find out no tubes were in it, LOL I've never heard the SF but understand the gear to have been very good.įunny story, brush with SF, a local store had one of their power amps in on trade, they didn't seem to know much about it and I didn't know that much about tubes, just beginning, I got the amp home, hooked it up, no sound.
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