[Ableza]

Any chance of Schitt tweaking the Magnius to make the single-ended side much better? This aspect is holding me back from buying this product.

What makes you think it needs tweaking?

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Lokizilla

I'm voting for "Lokus," which would also be very apropos with that whole Schiit thing. But that joke might be lost on those without a German background…

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Any chance of Schitt tweaking the Magnius to make the single-ended side much better? This aspect is holding me back from buying this product.

Personally, I think the single-ended outs of my Magnius sound as good as the balanced. But that's just me, of course.

 

[golfbravobravo]

Beers, Whisky and Music, with or without BBQ, is always a great idea. ( No 8 track players/cartridges required though)
We'd need a neutral venue between Oz and the States. The UK perhaps....?

I'm curious that you think the Uk is between the US and Aus.........

 

[Les Strat]

I'm curious that you think the Uk is between the US and Aus.........

It is on my UK-centric map
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.9018144,7.3999705,3z

Chad is probably equidistant but I'd settle for @Timster 's excellent suggestion of Hawaii

 

[Ableza]

I'm curious that you think the Uk is between the US and Aus.........

I guess it depends on if one travels east or west...

 

[Yethal]

@Jason Stoddard what do you think about the idea of manufacturing a small amp/dac that fits inside the framework laptop expansion card slot? The manufacturers uploaded full developer documentation to github

 

[A Jedi]

@Jason Stoddard what do you think about the idea of manufacturing a small amp/dac that fits inside the framework laptop expansion card slot? The manufacturers uploaded full developer documentation to github

That's not really Schiit's business model. That expansion card would fit just a few chips at best. Might as well buy an AQ Dragonfly or something similar.

 

[dhcarquinez]

I remember a l-o-n-g time ago reading a review in Stereophile (maybe - there used to be so many magazines) and the reviewer mentioned the LIAR test. Listen In Another Room. If your stereo can trick your ears into believing there are live instruments being played in the next room, it is a great stereo.

As far as I recall no gear ever passed the test and they dropped it.

I also seem to recall the closest they got was with Magnepan speakers reproducing piano.
.

In the late 80s my (now) wife and I lived in a tiny beach cottage in Capitola, CA, a beach town near Santa Cruz. By tiny, I mean I could just about stretch my arms and touch both living room walls. My wife would play my 40 watt NAD, A/D/S 620s as loud as they'd go, and an neighbor once asked her "Do you have a live band in there?" That's one reason we're still together 30+ years later.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

What makes you think it needs tweaking?

Someone on ASR probably proclaimed that SE not as good as balanced. Let me check.

Yep.

 

[GearMe]

Someone on ASR probably proclaimed that SE not as good as balanced. Let me check.



Yep.

Awwww...Schiit!

Now I gotta sell my Modius

 

[Roy G. Biv]

Awwww...Schiit!

Now I gotta sell my Modius

Your listening impressions of the Modius are obviously incorrect.
Measure twice, listen once.

(in the case of ASR, measure once and don't bother to listen)

One thing Stereophile gets right is they make the reviewer listen to the gear before they're made aware of the measurements.

 

[GumbyDammit223]

I had to buy a new Mac-Mini a few months ago as it's SSD failed catastrophically. I seriously wanted to boil it in acid, crush it with a sledge hammer before encasing it in concrete and then drowning it in the first body of water I could find.

Sounds extreme, but it failed at a very inopportune time.

Don't they always though?

 

[GumbyDammit223]

I bought a Nakamichi CR-4E in 1987 and used it many years. I was in my first job (pretty low pay) and the Nak was a stretch, but the public library rented out LPs and CDs for very little money. I rented countless LPs/CDs (and discovered so much great music) and taped them to cassette (I know, copyright.....but it was a one time copy for personal use, that way I silenced my conscience). The Nak paid itself back that way. And calibrating the deck before recording was always great fun.

The first time I saw a Nak change sides on a cassette, I had to pick my jaw off the floor. Being a college student at the time, there was no way I could afford something as cool as that...even though I obviously deserved one!

 

[Ableza]

Your listening impressions of the Modius are obviously incorrect.
Measure twice, listen once.

(in the case of ASR, measure once using your own self-defined methods ignoring industry standards and don't bother to listen)

FTFY