@tattooedtrackman You have a very nice system! TheLoki Max is a remarkable component. My appreciation of it continues to grow. For example, last night I was listening to Dave Brubeck’s “Back Home” CD of a live concert performance. It is very well recorded by Concord, but by elevating the 40 Hz band by a few clicks and the 120 Hz by a click or two, the electric bass was augmented just enough to bring it into balance with the rest of the band. If you find your system to be generally generous in the highs, shelving the 6 kHz dial a few clicks will tame that brightness, bringing it into better balance with the rest of the frequency spectrum. If a recording is a bit too “in your face”, the 2kHz “presence” control will help with that. The presence of the bypass control on the remote tells me that Schiit Audio has confidence in the transparency of the Loki Max as by the push of a knob you can compare the signal with and without it in the circuit.
My system consists of a Marantz Sa-KI Ruby SACD player into a highly modified cj PV-12L line stage, into the Loki Max into my SMc Gold Special McCormack DNA-1 power amp. I also have a VPI table with Dynavector cartridge into a Luxman phono amp.
Hope this info is helpful.
