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    Vali 2 tube rolling

    Brimar ECC88, warm yet spacious. I never looked back and it's been 2 1/2 years. BTW I joined when I ordered my Vali 2 and the Brimar tube.
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    Find some affordable earphones

    IEM = in-ear monitors, aka earbuds. At any rate Meze provides excellent value.
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    Find some affordable earphones

    I bought Meze Neo 11 IEMs for $59 US this past January and found them both comfortable and transparent. With Beats, Bose, etc., you're paying for the brand name.
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    Review by '1mctous' on item 'Schiit Audio Modi Multibit (aka Mimby)'

    By offering a true R2R ladder DAC for $249, Schiit has once again raised the bar. Those who argue that all DACs sound alike have probably only heard the nearly universal delta-sigmas, since multibit DACs pretty much disappeared after the mid-1990s. The Modi Multibit sounded quite different...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    You can polish turds, but they still smell just as bad.  Seriously, this isn't Schiit's market.  Above all their customers look for value (maximum performance/price).
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    MQA is the ransom-based scheme you're talking about, the music industry's latest pay-to-play?  How will we know if it's actually lossless, since many companies upsample 16/44.1 and call it hi-resolution?
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    Schiit Jotunheim Review / Preview - Head-Fi TV

    The DAC makes an easily audible difference no matter what.  The headphone amp becomes important once you upgrade from cheap IEMs to more power-hungry full-size headphones.  I agree with Schiit's approach to keep them separate, or at least keep them modular in the Jotenheim.
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    What is jitter and what does it mean?

    Those of us who grew up with over-the-air analog TV will remember how the picture would roll with some weak signals.  That happened because the vertical sync circuits couldn't separate the all-important pulses.  The better and more steady the sync pulses got, the more stable the picture.
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    Schiit Jotunheim Review / Preview - Head-Fi TV

    The CMEDIA driver dates from March 2014, and Windows 10 did not play nice with it.  After several rounds with Compatibility settings, I finally got it to work and it has worked ever since.  The Schiit Modi Multibit's sound is well worth the driver hassle.
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    Schiit Jotunheim Review / Preview - Head-Fi TV

    Understood.  I have a separate phono preamp (not the Schiit, although it contended for the spot).
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    Schiit Jotunheim Review / Preview - Head-Fi TV

    Understood.  I have a separate phono preamp (not the Schiit, although it contended for the spot).
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    Schiit Jotunheim Review / Preview - Head-Fi TV

    I intend to listen to both computer-based digital and analog LPs, so Schiit's modular approach makes sense to me.
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    Review by '1mctous' on item 'Klipsch R6m Black In Ear Headphone'

    Even at their current $89 price, I consider the Klipsch R6s an excellent value.  They are fundamentally honest about what you put into them.  Although they reveal a great deal about each recording, they are not ruthless, but they do not flatter inferior source material (MP3s) or mediocre...
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    Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

    I am inspired by your company's work: good-sounding audio electronics at affordable prices.  I just received my new Vali 2 and have Haitink's excellent 1963 Bruckner 3rd (original Philips LP) playing through it, and am anxiously awaiting my new Modi Multibit.
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    Reply to review by '1mctous' on item 'Schiit Audio Vali 2'

    Right out of the box, the Vali 2 sounds a bit harsh but more transparent than a Magni 2, with the expected tube virtues (truth of timbre, dynamics, and space) and just a bit of tube vice (bass overhang).  I am already quite pleased and look forward to hearing it break in.
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