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

[O8h7w]

There definitely is something to doing what YOU do best. Trying out different approaches and technologies can be good, but only if it works for you.

I love Schiit for being Schiit and Grado for being Grado. I do not expect either company to replicate the products, features, designs of other companies.

Perssonally, I do not want cookie cutter products, I want good, specialized Schiit.

100% agreed.

And Schiit appears to have a knack for trying out crazy stuff and making it work.

 

[Cliffh93]

I’ve not been super happy with any of the Class D amps I’ve bought. Most were cheap and were only driving 2 channel off of a TV, so expectations weren’t high in any case. But I did take a chance on an NAD C368 with a Bluesound card and yeah, a bit underwhelmed.

but my hopes are on Schiit to make a desktop sized 2 channel Class AB amp. If it also helps keep my coffee warm, so much the better.

 

[OldRoadToad]

If you did not know what "class" amplifier was doing the job, would you listen to the critic within or to the music trying its best to take you there?

As for "where" is? For me, it is where ever I need to be.

ORT

 

[O8h7w]

If you did not know what "class" amplifier was doing the job, would you listen to the critic within or to the music trying its best to take you there?

As for "where" is? For me, it is where ever I need to be.

ORT

That would depend on whether it sounds like ass - then my inner critic comes out. But if it sounds like music, then I might be transported to where I need to be, if someone has selected the right music to take me there.

Today I was listening to Ulrik Munther, an album in Swedish called "Allt jag ville säga". Often sounds bad but with HD650 driven by Piety did not. However, it did not take me to where I need to be, will have to try some other music tomorrow.

 

[AnalogEuphoria]

Mjolnir 3, when it hits, will be accompanied by something like the "15 Magnis" chapter. It took a long time for me to come up with something we liked. We tried a bunch of approaches, including Nexus/Continuity/Programmable OPS, tube hybrid, all-solid-state-tech-forward, etc...and ended up with something that's a bit of a left turn. It's closest to the Freya+ buffer stage topologically, but with some Mjolnir 1 DNA, and with a bunch of things we've never done before: true dual mono, choke-input, discrete-regulated supplies, ultra HV front end, real Class A with switchable SE or push-pull operation, switchable no overall feedback, switchable gain.

It's still huge for a desktop amp, it's extremely heavy with 4 48VA core transformers/chokes inside, and it puts out an insane amount of heat. This is real, no-fooling Class A, like the original Asgard, not high-bias Class AB or Continuity. It won't be for everyone. And it's still many months out. Maybe summer. We'll see.

I must be a clairvoyant because I see one in my future

 

[liamo]

I’ve bought new holiday music every year since I was in my early twenties. We all know a lot of the same stuff which I still love but just wondering if there’s a special album out there that hasn’t gotten it’s due. Would love to know any music out there that needs hearing. I offer

Would love to find new stuff since tis’ the season.

 

[Godaisan]

I tried a bunch of cheap class D amps and they all sounded like ass. Therefore all class D amps are bad.

 

[OldRoadToad]

That would depend on whether it sounds like ass - then my inner critic comes out. But if it sounds like music, then I might be transported to where I need to be, if someone has selected the right music to take me there.

Today I was listening to Ulrik Munther, an album in Swedish called "Allt jag ville säga". Often sounds bad but with HD650 driven by Piety did not. However, it did not take me to where I need to be, will have to try some other music tomorrow.

I do not like all that is called "music", ergo I do not listen to that which I care not at all for...But I have yet to hear equipment that sounds like "ass" (that does not meant it does not exist!). I can stand before any number of setups of audio equipment and it does nothing until I make it so. It sits silent, awaiting my input before ever it outputs a single note.

Of course like all things, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

My first radio I bought by my self by cutting lawns and picking strawberries, apples and other fruits and vegatables in the early/mid sixties was a portable transistor radio. Can not recall the make but it may well have been from Radio Shack. Did it sound like "ass". Nope. I heard Sinatra, Streisand, the Beatles and more. Did it reproduce as well as Magnepans and a pair of the gorgeous new Vidar 2s? Nope. But I remember it as if it did. And it went nearly every where I did, especially in the summer!

I have said before that we all, each of us, has a soundtrack to our life. I can hear "Alone Again, Naturally" via Mp3 from a BlooToof speaker and it is 1972 for 3:36 and the kid inside me is free for that entire time... I enjoy music and film. The equipment is there to amplify not just the sound but the beating of my heart and the pounding in my soul.

Enough ramblin'.

ORT

 

[OldRoadToad]

I’ve bought new holiday music every year since I was in my early twenties. We all know a lot of the same stuff which I still love but just wondering if there’s a special album out there that hasn’t gotten it’s due. Would love to know any music out there that needs hearing. I offer

Would love to find new stuff since tis’ the season.

Thank you!

ORT

 

[Ripper2860]

I tried a bunch of cheap class D amps and they all sounded like ass. Therefore all class D amps are bad.

The transitive law of assness. Now you're starting to get it.


** Lest ye judge, do check the My Gear spoiler sig.

 

[OldRoadToad]

The transitive law of assness. Now you're starting to get it.


** Lest ye judge, do check the My Gear spoiler sig.

I tried a bunch of cheap class D amps and they all sounded like ass. Therefore all class D amps are bad.

Superb gentlemen!

ORT

 

[Plautus001]

I tried a bunch of cheap class D amps and they all sounded like ass. Therefore all class D amps are bad.

Maybe check out ASR? They don't care what stuff sounds like so long it measures well.

 

[OldRoadToad]

Maybe check out ASR? They don't care what stuff sounds like so long it measures well.

In my case it may well be so long as it looks good...LOL!

ORT

 

[earnmyturns]

My lead developer has Freya S feeding a March Audio (Aussie Class D) P262 that drives his B&Ws. This amp “Feature (sic) the stunning Purifi class D technology developed by Bruno Putzeys…” whomever that is(was). I haven’t heard it, but he’s happy…

TBH, active speakers can be so good these days, that all of these twists to match class D separates to speakers seem besides the point. When I had separate solid-state amps, moving from Bel Canto class D (which sounded good at the time) to Hegel class A/B was a huge improvement. My "big" actives (Linn Klimax 350 and ATC SCM40a) use class A/B (the Linn's have separate amps for each frequency range), but more compact/lower cost Linn actives use class D, and they sound surprisingly good. I know, I know, it seems easier and cheaper to mix and match, but really, today's good actives bypass all of that class XYZ angst.

 

[earnmyturns]

Perfect addition for the office decor

Respect for that Mt. Rainier certificate! I can barely move above 13k ft...