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The noise floor wasn’t super state of the art, mainly due to the insane standing currents. And it ran pretty darn hot, too-hot enough to be problematic in warm rooms, or with difficult loads. The original Aegir was only 20W-1/5 of Vidar’s rated output. Pretty neat.īut also pretty controversial. When introduced, it debuted Continuity™, our anti-transconductance-droop output stage, and a convenient standby mode, to our amp lineup. Because, after all, this is also our first Halo™ speaker amp.īefore tackling the elephant in the room, let me torture you with some backstory about how we got here. Longer answer: but that may not be the real question. Short answer: a lot of learning from other amps. So, the question is: how did we manage to deliver more power, less heat, without wrecking Aegir? Less heat means lower bias which means less Class-A-ishness-which again, is completely opposed to what the amp is. More power means more volts which means more heat-which is the opposite of what you want. Improving Aegir is dead easy: more power, less heat, done.Įxcept most of the paths that get you there destroy what Aegir is. Magnis and Midgards and stuff like that have been moved to, or are being moved to, all-recycled cardboard. You get to choose between weirdo semi-plastic molded stuff to hold the non-bagged product in place, and bags. We've been trying to eliminate plastic bags. Manuals are almost always somewhat wrong.Įdit: I linked Tyler to this, so he'll definitely read your opinions.Įdit2: also, for the high school debate team champions, don't try to shift this to plastic bags and other crap in the box. Most manuals are about 10% useful information and 90% scolding (looking at tools especially).Ĥ. However, if we get rid of them, we're right there with $3500 products (Cintiq) with no manuals and with massively complex apps and other stupid stuff with no manuals.ģ. I know if we get rid of them, someone's gonna complain about us being cheap/assholes/etc.