Schiit Mjolnir headphone amplifier - Page 104

The JH3A... *sigh* 

I remember losing around $300 and getting nothing from them. (Paypal fees both ways & multiple trips to different audiologists for impressions).

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Originally Posted by MacedonianHero 

That was most liklely the Molinjir...with the GS-X, there is a very good improvement balanced vs. single-ended with the W4S DAC-2.

Which makes sense since its a bridged amp, not a differential one.  Ie, single ended input doesn't result in balanced output.  WA22 has the same limit ignoring its output is always single ended :p

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Originally Posted by Solude 

 

Which makes sense since its a bridged amp, not a differential one.  Ie, single ended input doesn't result in balanced output.  WA22 has the same limit ignoring its output is always single ended :p

Which is the bridged amp?

GS-X, B22... pretty much anything with four boards and no separate input stage.

O I C  So my B22 only has Balanced ins and outs - so nothing is bridged in my box.  I assume.

No its a bridged amplifier, ie two amp boards to make a single balanced channel.  Term game, confusing I know.

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Originally Posted by Solude 

No its a bridged amplifier, ie two amp boards to make a single balanced channel.  Term game, confusing I know.

Oh sh_ _   OK..

why do schitt use halo armour names? are halo armour names german or something?

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Originally Posted by preproman 

 

 

Oh sh_ _   OK..

It's not the end of the world, just means if you used a single ended input you wouldn't get balanced output.  The Bryston takes the whole differential thing to the extreme of always feeding the input stage a single ended signal regardless of whether you use balanced and single ended input :O

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Originally Posted by Dj HyPe 

why do schitt use halo armour names? are halo armour names german or something?

Seriously... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir

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Originally Posted by Dj HyPe 

why do schitt use halo armour names? are halo armour names german or something?

Before there was Halo there was Norse mythology...It is both a collection of names with a common theme and, hey, they are cool....

Mjolnir, the mighty hammer of Thor....

QUOTE by Solude

It's not the end of the world, just means if you used a single ended input you wouldn't get balanced output.  The Bryston takes the whole differential thing to the extreme of always feeding the input stage a single ended signal regardless of whether you use balanced and single ended input :O

SOLUDE-Are you saying if I use the single ended outputs on my GUNGIR into my Bryston the Balanced output of the Bryston will sound the same as if I used the Balanced outputs of the GUNGIR into the Balanced inputs of the Bryston?

I ask this as I also own the MJOLNIR and would like to be able to connnect my GUNGIR to both amps at the same time--ie. SE out to Bryston--Balanced out to MJOLNIR--NOT to play them both at the SAME TIME but to have either amp available to use Balanced out one at a time--

Thanks

Jack

That's correct.  The Bryston doesn't even attempt to hide it.  Its uses a stereo, 2 gang, volume and balance pots

Course if the single ended output of the Gungnir is junk well then it doesn't become about the Bryston ;).

I'm sorry, Solude, but I'm left with one last question on this subject. Won't balanced input mean a stronger signal, i.e. double the voltage swing, even for the Bryston? If all things are as good as in theory, that would provide a lot higher SNR, right?

No because the noise is doubled too ;)  That said the output level of balanced input is the same since the Bryston drops the negative leg.  Ie 3 pins enter, two get grounded, 1 continues through the amp.  I'd have to look again but its also possible Bryston sums the input, same difference.