Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar

EB1i is the model. They’re frightening beasts. Had buddy's big Krell integrated go into protection every 5 minutes on them. Just got a DAC Cherry amp 3 days ago and it's rock solid on them. Loud & proud.

scott_w236 posts02-16-2018 3:38pmPMC EB1i is the model. They’re frightening beasts.

The PMC EB1i are transmission line, which are normally known to want huge power. In this review they had to use the massive $5K Classé CA-2200 to drive them.
I would think the 7 x cheaper, Schiit Vidar probably drove them well to a "certain level" before the protection tripped.
http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/pmc-eb1i-transmission-line-loudspeaker/?page=4

Cheers George

Oh they did, aye. I would have mono'd them but they're not rated to 4 so I decided to go another route (the cherry). I decided that after borrowing my buddy's @titaniumhead Rowland 525 monos and realizing class d was the way to go on these. Sounds chewy and amazing on d.

I would have mono’d them but they’re not rated to 4

Right, bridging amps into mono is a hoax, all you gain is more wattage, everywhere else it takes a hit.
Less damping factor (higher output impedance), higher distortion, less current ability into low impedance’s, all in all the only reason really to bridge an amp it to have it drive a P.A. system louder.

Cheers George

Interesting.  My Vidar has never gone into protection mode driving my N801s.  I’m selling it, though.  I bought my end-game amp.