# Schiit Audio - Official Thread

**URL:** <https://forum.headphones.com/t/schiit-audio-official-thread/2081>\
**Category:** Headphones\
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**Created:** [September 23, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/schiit-audio-official-thread/2081 "2018-09-23T17:56:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/schiit-audio-official-thread/2081/681 "2020-08-24T00:49:42Z")

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Schiit surely did something special here. I’ve got an $8.5k pre-amp in the house with stock tubes and the Freya+ with upgraded tubes managed to put up a good fight. It only loses on the Soundstage (and overall expansiveness of the sound) and top end refinement departments. I’m inclined to believe that I would fail to reliably pick them apart in a volume matched blind test.

For reference, the evaluation tool is as follows: SR1a paired with the HSA-1a amp and M Scaler+Dave with a LUMIN U1 streamer as source.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/headphones/original/3X/f/a/fa1cf21be66c5e5f75ac99b11b3f6cbe72e2a398.jpeg)

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