Aegir upgrade to Pass...maybe

I noticed somebody else had the "shut off" issue with the Aegir which alleviated my worries that it was maybe my subs connected to the speaker outputs being an issue, although it's never been an issue with other amps. The subs (RELs) load very high impedance (100,000 ohms or maybe 50,000 as I use two) onto the amp which should have virtually zero effect on the thing. An amp that kicks in a protection circuit with 99db speakers is useless to me as it would seem to be putting out maybe 10 watts when playing very loud (louder than I need or seem to ever use), and would appear to have overprotective protection. I had high hopes for the Aegir, but now simply assume the Pass XA25 is down the road...maybe...

@tvad

made in usa quality!!! lol!!!

mike moffatt may be a genius component designer but he could use some good old fashioned manufacturing quality control...

They had issues with the protection circuit and firmware.   As far as build quality goes, they put a 5 yr warranty on it.  That is higher than many.

Not one, but 2 Aegir amps, eh?  Not one, but 3 different RCA cables, huh?  That story has many missing details which is too bad, it would have been helpful to have simple measurements of the clearance and the left and right RCA inputs, for example.  Or how the one amp got hot when it couldn't accept a signal from the RCA inputs.

Failures in quality control do happen, and every brand has such issues.  I will say that I've owned over 15 Schiit components, and I've only had one minor issue with one.  I currently have 9 and every one performs as designed.