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

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

That's why you have other people for sanity check.

…as long as you can trust them to be honest with you — which isn't necessarily a given if you're the employer (in case of company internal opinions) and/or a somewhat public-ish figure (in case of external testers).

 

[Jason Stoddard]

…as long as you can trust them to be honest with you — which isn't necessarily a given if you're the employer (in case of company internal opinions) and/or a somewhat public-ish figure (in case of external testers).

We have some brutally honest early listeners who don't work for us.

 

[bagwell359]

On a different place to talk Schiit, someone mentioned that they replaced the output capacitors on a Freya+ which brought me to these questions. 1. Is this advisable and 2. why is it things seem to always sound better after replacing items?

Expectation bias perhaps

I've yet to see anyone talk about how replacing parts, burning in, etc that something sounded worse. I wonder why that is? (rhetorical, I already know)

I dislike the CC copper on the HD-600 - bleech

Spent hours on the HE-5 LE; 4XX; X00 Nahogany; Brainwaywz Alera - to get what I got working on the HE-500 & HE-6 SE and they did not scale - so no good

Updated several speaker crossover caps to no real effect

Added extra capacitance on a Threshold Stasis 3 and that was awful (copying the Dyna 400 to 416 change)

Thankfully lots have gone well

 

[adias]

Or maybe Yggy 'Notably Better But Still Not the Best'.

So which version do you think is the best? It's interesting to note that one of the posted reviewers (Gary Barker - https://headphone.guru/a-day-at-the-schiitr-schiit-launches-three-flavors-of-yggy/) says that MF preferred the LIM.

 

[LobalWarming]

…as long as you can trust them to be honest with you — which isn't necessarily a given if you're the employer (in case of company internal opinions) and/or a somewhat public-ish figure (in case of external testers).

Very true. Which is why I try to avoid gear designed by totalitarian dictators and their flunkies.

Spoiler: Or Corporate Oligarchies

Like MQA or Dolby.

 

[LobalWarming]

We have some brutally honest early listeners who don't work for us any longer.

FTFY…[ ® ™ ℠; © bcowen: 2021-2023.]

 

[roadcykler]

Or as my mother-in-law (RIP) would say -- "Every crow thinks theirs is the blackest.' She was from deep country Oklahoma.

As was my mom and grandmother.

 

[Ableza]

. Sometimes it's just another kid.

Sometimes it's the bad kid, but you don't realize that until they start doing bad things.

 

[mattveksler]

"Can you get your Schiit out of my box?"

Mjolnir 3 arrived yesterday, couldn't resist a taste before repacking it for its ultimate destination, where my neighbors are no less than 500 feet away. Grey had to steal my chair to make me stop, around 1am-ish.

 

[riffrafff]

"Can you get your Schiit out of my box?"

Mjolnir 3 arrived yesterday, couldn't resist a taste before repacking it for its ultimate destination, where my neighbors are no less than 500 feet away. Grey had to steal my chair to make me stop, around 1am-ish.

 

[FLTWS]

Excellent.

 

[Mr Rick]

Umm... More is Less+++

More is no more, but this is more better.

 

[theeclone]

More is no more, but this is more better.

Mo' Better Bits

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Personally, I'll be holding out for Yggdrasil JPE — the Just Perfect Edition.

 

[Ripper2860]

I think they already have that. It's called Bifrost.