MEASUREMENTS

measured the performance of the Schiit Freya + with my Audio Precision SYS2722 system, checking some of the results with the magazine’s top-line APx500. The preamplifier preserved absolute polarity (ie, was noninverting) with both balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs and in all three output modes. Its XLR jacks are wired with pin 2 hot, the AES convention. The maximum gain depended on whether the tube stage was operating and whether I was using the unbalanced inputs and outputs or the balanced inputs and outputs. In passive mode or with the solid state buffer, the maximum gain with the single-ended inputs at the single-ended output was –6.1dB. It was –0.08dB at the balanced output for both the