My first review! I'll keep it short. I had the original Schiit Magni for a long time. I'd give it four stars. It sounds really good for the money. A tad too bright and the treble can be fatiguing, but for $99 dollars I loved it. I feed my amps with a JDS labs ODAC playing mostly 16/44.1 flac with some 24/96 files for good measure. My primary set of cans are the Hifiman HE-400s. The first thing I notice with the Magni 2 Uber is that the brightness and sometimes searing treble from the original Magni is gone. Bass comes through much clearer as well. I'd say that the mids are comparable to the original Magni. If you have $150 bucks to burn and are at all interested, get it.