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Vidar 2F
The Totally Modern Old Skool Power Amp
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Here’s your ultra-high-end amplifier, without the ultra-high-end price. Vidar 2F is nothing less than an all-out, exotic-topology, Class-AB, linear-supply, microprocessor-controlled, power-doubling, dual-mono-ish, intelligently-managed, drives-almost-anything power amp that you’ll be happy with for a long, long time. Maybe forever!
Totally Modern Convenience…
Vidar 2F has all the modern conveniences you expect, including a compact form factor, a convenient front-panel standby switch to save tons of power, and an intelligent microprocessor-driven oversight system that ensures the amp is operating optimally at all times—and protects your treasured speakers from harm.
…with Old Skool Quality
At the same time, don’t let the features fool you. Pick up Vidar 2F to get a real feeling for the beefy 600VA transformer inside. No Class D, no switching supplies, no fans…just powerhouse performance, delivering 100W per channel into 8 ohms, doubling to 200W per channel into
Forkbeard™: Power Output, System Health, Remote Standby
Vidar 2F includes Forkbeard, the only multi-product, multi-stack, unified control system. One iOS app gives you complete visibility of instant power output, amp health, remote control of Standby mode, and integrates with many other Schiit products.
Flexibility and Affordability
Combine Vidar 2F with the Saga 2 preamp for a 100% Forkbeard, insanely high value system. Crazy? Want more? Run two Vidar 2s from Saga 2, Kara F, or Freya+ F for true monoblock performance and 400 watts per channel into 8 ohms.
Designed and Built in the USA
By “designed and built in the USA" this is what we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Vidar 2F—chassis, boards, transformers, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the US. Chassis, transformers, and PCBs are actually all from California, and Vidar is assembled, burnt in, tested, and shipped from our San Antonio, Texas production facility.
5-Year Warranty and Easy Return Policy
Vidar is covered by a 5-year limited warranty that covers parts and labor. And if you don’t like your Vidar, you can send it back for a refund, minus 5% restocking fee, within 15 days of receiving it.
Wait a sec. Are you telling me this is a real old-skool Class AB amp?
Yes.
What does Forkbeard™ do?
Forkbeard does everything a remote control does, but for multiple products in multiple stacks. For a preamp, it controls volume, selects inputs, picks output modes, etc. But it also does a lot more, like show you system health—temperature and current on an amp, for example, and tube heater status on a tube preamp. It can do even more when multiple products are brought together, like Visual Volume, an easy way to tell how much headroom you have left in your system.
- Current feedback topology is amazingly fast (-3dB above 1MHz before input filter) and measures well, especially for such a simple stage.
- 3 pairs of 15A output transistors per channel for extremely high overall capability, 2SC/2SA pairs used throughout.
- 100% DC coupled throughout, no capacitors in the signal path, for nothing in your music but music.
- Convenient standby mode keeps Vidar 2 powered up, but consumes only 1-2 watts—and it’s not automatic, you select when and if you want to use it.
- Dual mono power supply from the output stage back to the transformer. Separate rectification for each channel. This means heavy loads, like musical transients into hard-to-drive speakers, on one channel won’t affect the other.
- Separate discrete regulated high voltage rails improve efficiency and are ground-referenced (not stacked) to ensure each channel’s performance is independent from the other.
- 32-bit microprocessor-based protection system uses a “least invasive methodology”—no active devices in signal path, no current limiting, no crowbars—just resistors and relays.
- 4-layer, 0.093” thick PC board for optimal layout and current flow.
- Exotic, modern parts for higher performance—1% metal-strip output resistors eliminate inductance, silicon and film capacitors for precision compensation, air-core output inductors.
- No fan, just a massive amount of heatsinking, for silent operation.
"Here’s your ultra-high-end amplifier, without the ultra-high-end price. Vidar 2 is nothing less than an all-out, exotic-topology, Class-AB, linear-supply, microprocessor-controlled, power-doubling, dual-mono-ish, intelligently-managed, drives-almost-anything power amp that you’ll be happy with for a long, long time. Maybe forever!"