[OldRoadToad]

Apparently they'll also be doing a regular production model at two specs/prices. The less featured entry model will be around US$1100.
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Hopefully it will have VU Meters and no MQA!

ORT The Chaste

 

[wout31]

Subs and ported speakers, for example, are great for pop and rock, but counterproductive for acoustic music, jazz, and classical.

Thank you, thank you. I thought I was the only one who understood.
Subs with Quad electrostatic speakers is a nightmare. But I'm always having a hard time to convince people.
Big boom (not bass), is making big impression among your friends apparently.
Peter Walker once said it very nice in an interview many years back. If you have a sub in your playback system and play a pieces with cello(s), better turn it off if you don't want the cello to sound like an upright bass. (or something of those words) I could not agree more.

There is something to be said about standardizing filters across manufacturers in an attempt to reproduce the same output.

OMG please NO. That would kill the ideas and skills of the Schitt specialists Mike, Dave, Ivana and Gerald (if I recall correct from the last Jason and Dave video) to come up with new magic. Leave all the "standard" to the others, I will take Schiit sauce every day and twice in the weekend.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

Buy her the drum kit NOW!

Let's all chip in for the drum kit, but have it shipped to @Ripper2860's house so she can practice when she visits grandpa.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

- me too. If I'm paying for the music, I want to know that it "is as the artist intended".

LIke @ArmchairPhilosopher, I have also spent most of my career in software development. But since I'm at least twice as old as he, it's been more like forty years... <g>. Fractal encoding works super well for image compression, but it's critically important to remember that it's a lossy algorithm. If the MQA organization wanted to embed a watermark / authentication code, they could do it by embedding an encrypted signature in the file header of a FLAC container, toot suite. Done.

The claim that "extended" musical data is "folded" into the file using n-dimensional bull-Schiit is patently ridiculous.

So, you're >82 years old? Good for you! Just make sure you don't throw your back out next time you move around those Tyrs of yours…

As for your comment about MQA: Spot on.
If MQA Ltd. (the company) wants MQA (the product) to be taken seriously, they would do well to first stop claiming patently ridiculous things that the laws of physics and no algorithm known to man could ever actually deliver. What they do is in no way different than a car salesperson telling you in all seriousness that the internal combustion engines in their model lineup deliver 1,500 horsepower at 500 miles a gallon efficiency, and that nothing but rainbows and butterflies comes out the tail pipes. Even the most gullible of nitwits would immediately begin their retreat back out the door, because what they're claiming is obviously impossible at best, and outright clinically delusional at worst. Yet somehow, MQA's marketing department does essentially just that, yet a good chunk of audiophila is gobbling it up like it'd be the best new thing since sliced bread.

Makes absolutely no sense to me. Well, almost no sense, that is.

Thank you, thank you. I thought I was the only one who understood.
Subs with Quad electrostatic speakers is a nightmare. But I'm always having a hard time to convince people.
Big boom (not bass), is making big impression among your friends apparently.
Peter Walker once said it very nice in an interview many years back. If you have a sub in your playback system and play a pieces with cello(s), better turn it off if you don't want the cello to sound like an upright bass. (or something of those words) I could not agree more.

No need to thank me. It's not a matter of convincing anyone, it's just basic physics, whether someone likes to hear that or not.
Subs and ports exist to amplify frequency ranges that simply don't really exist in music that is created with purely acoustic instruments, like acoustic folk/rock, jazz, and classical. It's much more important to have a clear, accurate, and undistorted representation of 35Hz and up, especially without distortion in their respective harmonics. Artificially enhancing anything below 35Hz will impart a certain sense of "fakeness" to the sound. It might appear to sound more exciting and get your pulse up quicker, but it simply won't feel accurate.
(And I say this as as HUGE Berlin Philharmonics fanboy, an orchestra that is considered to have the "darkest" sound of any professional orchestra on the planet, in part due to the fact that they exclusively use 5-string double basses.)

Again, ports and subs are great for pop and rock, or anything else that's naturally boomy and punchy. But if somewhat accurate reproduction of acoustic instruments is what you're after, you better plug those ports and switch off your subs.

 

[corndog71]

And with the addition of this-here Modi 3E*, the travel rig is complete.



Not to pander to an audience, but this little stack has no business sounding anywhere near as good as it does.
I dare you to show me another maker of audio gear that is this compact, yet delivers a sound that can easily hold a candle to products that cost twice as much or more.

* to be replaced with a Modi MB, once it's back from its supply chain hell induced hiatus, in whichever shape or form that might be.

Now all Schiit has to do is stick those three boards into one box. Simple.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Now all Schiit has to do is stick those three boards into one box. Simple.

Well, actually…

Would I welcome something that's even more compact for traveling, especially something that only needs one wall wart instead of two/three? Heck, yes.

But I very much appreciate that I can just switch out Vali for a Magni, or Modi 3E for a Modi MB.

Compact is good.
Choice is better.

(To be fair: Hel exists, and it's a very nifty little DAC/amp combo. Great value for money, and as compact as anyone could ever realistically ask for. I have one sitting on my desk connected to my Windows PC for things like Teams meetings, etc. But Hel's amplification circuit doesn't sound quite as nice as Vali's or Mani's does, and it doesn't come with hardware tone control.)

 

[Ripper2860]

Buy her the drum kit NOW!

Already ordered. I may be old but I ain't stupid.

 

[EMINENT]

Got some Schiit coming. It's the first Schiit I have taken, ever. First thing i'm gonna do is smell my Schitt.

 

[Alcophone]

Got some Schiit coming. It's the first Schiit I have taken, ever. First thing i'm gonna do is smell my Schitt.

You'd like 2 Girls 1 DAC

 

[Roy G. Biv]

You'd like 2 Girls 1 DAC

 

[gljus]

Sorry to disagree but I went to the opening of the NY Phil last week to see The Pines of Rome and it reminded me that speakers will never even come close to reproducing the electricity in the air when an orchestra plays live.

I am sure that system sounds AMAZING, though. I am only saying that it is not the same as real people playing live.

Sounds like you’re ready for a trip to Rome, Italy!

 

[FLTWS]

Sorry to disagree but I went to the opening of the NY Phil last week to see The Pines of Rome and it reminded me that speakers will never even come close to reproducing the electricity in the air when an orchestra plays live.

I am sure that system sounds AMAZING, though. I am only saying that it is not the same as real people playing live.

Absolutely!

 

[dstrimbu]

And with the addition of this-here Modi 3E*, the travel rig is complete.



Not to pander to an audience, but this little stack has no business sounding anywhere near as good as it does.
I dare you to show me another maker of audio gear that is this compact, yet delivers a sound that can easily hold a candle to products that cost twice as much or more.

* to be replaced with a Modi MB, once it's back from its supply chain hell induced hiatus, in whichever shape or form that might be.

I love the fact that it's sitting on top of Folkvangr. Big Bro meets Little Bro...

 

[EMINENT]

This is a big, long ass Schiit.

 

[FLTWS]

Sounds like you’re ready for a trip to Rome, Italy!

It struck me that there was always something about the sound of the ambient air inside a hall, no matter where I traveled to, that, strangely enough, presented the music with a transparency and vividness at all dynamic levels that never sounded strained or buried. And this would vary from hall to hall. Imaging and sound-stage was never as pinpoint, with eyes closed, as what I got with reproduced music. I always listened to recordings of what I was going to hear the day before attending a concert. It would take about 5 seconds after the conductor first raised his baton and I would be shaking my head in disbelief as to how I was ever able to convince myself how wonderful my latest collection of boxes and wires were.

But, unlike the concert hall, with a reproducing system you can always cue up that symphony, overture, etc. again and again. Or put together your own custom concert. And, pretend it's just like Memorex.