Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[DarthFader]

  WOW 
 
I am the only one who read/saw
 
"but I can say that Yggy isn’t the last superburrito product you’ll see from us."
 
C
 
That is the Schiit excitement that I love!!!!!!

I saw it too but my excitement was quickly dashed when I heard the blood curdling screams of my wallet, imagining the terror that is to befall it.

 

[yay101]

Thanks for that searching for info now!

Or you know, a raspberry pi for much much less....

 

[sand viper]

I joined just so I could post my 2 cents. How about a circlotron phono amp with adjustable loading?

 

[sludgeogre]

The thing I hate the most about my system: No damn remote and no decent preamp options under $1k. I'm buying an Oppo BDP-105D when I can afford it and plan to use that as my preamp. I think the Oppo product line is an amazing bargain for what it offers, but if Schiit could over the same audio options that the 105D offers without the disc drive and the video components, I'd be totally fine using my Bifrost and PS4 with said preamp. I've considered Emotiva's preamp, but I don't want to spend that much just for a preamp when I can get the 105D for just a few hundred more. It doesn't make sense to me that there isn't a good preamp out there under $600 or so that can do what I need, which is just remote volume control and a few RCA outputs. I think an Uber version with a phone app that controlled music from my computer and streamed it into my Bifrost would be amazing.
 
DAPs: I bought a Fiio X1 for my girlfriend, a non-audiophile that often is aggravated with my audiophile obsessions, but she has really grown to love it and the high res music I've bought for her (all 24/96 FLAC). She looooves hearing new things she had never heard before in the music and has had the same joy rediscovering her old favorites as I did when I bought my first Modi. I think there is a serious market out there for DAPs, but people really need something to convince them, because the Pono certainly didn't. As Jason said, a phone and decent headphones is all most people need. For me, a good DAP adds a lot over Spotify over a phone and I think Schiit would be able to convince people of it with their expertise in marketing and USA made products. Fiio makes great stuff, but their crappy English isn't really a good excuse for marketing.
 
Portable DAC: I have an E18 and I love it. The only thing I don't like is how crappy the OTG cable is. Both of mine failed within a year. I'd love to see a good OTG cable at least, or some kind of cradle type connection, I don't know. All I know is the thing I hate the most about my E18 is how hard it is to keep it connected to something in my pocket or on a plane. In the car it isn't so bad, but walking around with it can be a pain.
 
Two Channel: I don't know how you're going to beat Emotiva and Outlaw here. Their amps are pretty awesome. I got nothing here.

 

[jodgey4]

I'd love a two channel mixer in a Magni sized case for mixing backing tracks and keyboard outputs for practicing.
 
Do a current output amp, the market has nearly none out. Easy to come in and make something affordable and awesome Asgard-tier.
 
Having two outs might be cool on some amps that have the power for it.
 
Also, bass boosts could be fun to add. Or crossfeeds. Or simulated tube warmth on SS gear like AGD. All gimmicky, I know .

 

[wink]

  I am the only one who read/saw
 
"but I can say that Yggy isn’t the last superburrito product you’ll see from us."
 

The [REDACTED} will be the Jalapeno Habanera Super Capsaicin red hot product of the century - and there's still 85 years left.

 

[jimmers]

  The [REDACTED} will be the Jalapeno Habanera Super Capsaicin red hot product of the century - and there's still 85 years left.

Sigh...

 

[x838nwy]

The [REDACTED} will be the Jalapeno Habanera Super Capsaicin red hot product of the century - and there's still 85 years left.

I would not be surprised if their next amp is actually called "The Redacted".

 

[GearMe]

I would not be surprised if their next amp is actually called "The Redacted".

Maybe the next dac? ReDACted.
I'm here all week...is this thing on?

 

[gld3gld3]

The one thing I dislike the most about my system right now is that TIDAL doesn't have a remote control app! Come on TIDAL!  I built a PC music server for my stereo system and I would like to control all of my music via my Android phone. I currently use FoobarCon Pro to control Foobar (for the music I have on my SSD) and it's excellent. What I end up doing to control TIDAL is the MS Remote Desktop app. It works, but it's not the most streamlined solution. So there's that. 
 
I would love to see a small, low power stereo amplifier from Schiit for my system. Currently I have a Emo DC-1 and mini-x driving Monitor Audio bookshelves. I have a magni/modi for my headphones. I would love a single amplifier solution that would take care of my headphone and speakers. I would love the Rag and Yggi, but those are out of my price range and probably always will be. I really like the idea of simplifying my system, but keeping one separate amp and one dac for all my needs. If Schiit can come up with this kind of solution in a smaller form factor (like Bifrost/Lyr sized) that would be awesome! Otherwise, it looks like Emotiva is going to be coming out with some affordable class D amps in the DC-1 form factor (and the SP-1, see: http://www.audioholics.com/gadget-reviews/emotiva-dacs-and-class-d-amplifier), which would be hard to pass up if they have good SQ...
 
Give Emotiva some competition! It would be great to have more options.    

 

[reddog]

Emotiva is a terrible target to aim at.  Hitting their amplifier price/performance point would require what they have: ownership of a Chinese manufacturing facility.

+1 Well said.

 

[DarthFader]

  I'd love a two channel mixer in a Magni sized case for mixing backing tracks and keyboard outputs for practicing.
 

That'd be pretty neat as a portable option if you were doing some simple recording. I'm not sure when I'd want to track or mix with just two channels though. I guess you could throw more tracks on in Pro Tools and feed the channels in two by two … But that's making tracking like twenty times harder than it needs to be.
 
I'd still buy one though!

 

[jodgey4]

 
That'd be pretty neat as a portable option if you were doing some simple recording. I'm not sure when I'd want to track or mix with just two channels though. I guess you could throw more tracks on in Pro Tools and feed the channels in two by two … But that's making tracking like twenty times harder than it needs to be.
 
I'd still buy one though!

If they make it a passive mixer... you could have as many channels as RCA jacks and pots will fit!

 

[lblb]

Hi,
I updated the PDF files and EPUP of the typeset book, they now also contain the newest chapter. Link is in my signature.

 

[adydula]

Honesty is most important to me.
 
I would like to have an amp and a dac called:
 
" It doesn't get any better than this..... sonically"
 
A vendor that would state this headphone amp will drive any headphones from 32 Ohms to 300 Ohms to their fullest sound levels based on their specs.
 
It doesn't add a thing to the input signal, or take away anything from the input signal....a straight wire with gain.
 
The cost for a pair of these not to exceed $500.
 
Do whatever you have to for sonic perfection, don't care about looks, zillion dollar step attenuator vol controls etc,.,.,. just the best sonically, transparent etc.
 
No Balanced support need apply.
 
For guys who want to buy an amp and dac and know 1000% for sure it really doenst get any better sonically than this...... no matter HOW big the caps are or how regulated the power supply is.........a good solid combination that just works VERY well and one that the next day I am not thinking of "should have I bought the Burson, or the Oppo HA1, The Denton XXX, the Audio, or the whatever system of the week...."
 
The least desirable thing about present system: TOO MANY CABLES and COMBINATIONS, COMPLEXITY SUCKS.
 
A.