Schitt freya preamp hum- how do I get rid of this?


When I use the tube output mode it hums. It goes away  in solid state Mode.  Does this mean I have to replace the tubes or is it just because it's a cheap preamp?

jumia

Vegas odds are the wear and tear items “tubes” are defective. The Freya is a solid unit. 

Well I cant say that there were no others failures just not immediate requests for returns for noise problems. After this rather unusual event I did a search to see if this seemed to be a trend and other customers had reported the same problems. Dont get me wrong I think these products represent a good value, but the types of noises being reported were unusual. In fact I kept track of the Schiit specific tubes, tested them again for noise/microphonics sold them and had no problems. 

I understand anecdotally that Schiit had some quality issues (either build,or design or both, whatever) in the past but that this has been largely resolved and they have been spitting out some affordable and robustly engineered products recently.  Must annoy audiophiles a lot.

Which leads me to think that they are taking notice and act accordingly. Perhaps its an on-going process and as with many things this usually takes longer than anticipated.

But this is the first I’ve heard of issues with Freya +. Maybe I blinked, or people do the right thing and return the product to the dealer or to Schiit.

And they must have sold at least a few hundred units worldwide since they were released a couple years (?) ago, so that’s pretty good.

I don't own any products by Schiit but something like Freya+ would be one I'd consider if only it was a dedicated tube pre.amp.