While everyone's speculating about the new products, given what Jason's said recently, I think these are both plausible and potentially interesting as a customer:
Mjolnarok: (please don't call it that) Mjolnir is awesome and very powerful. Ragnarok sits comfortably above it, offering far more power, the fancy relay stepper, speaker outputs, the managed signal path, and the unbalanced summer. The Measurements chapter suggests a 50W minimum for "speaker amps", even though Schiit only offers one today, at twice that power. I don't know anything about engineering, but I think it's plausible that a product could exist in the middle — likely just the Mjolnir 2 — that added 50WPC speaker outputs, and nothing else, to the Mjolnir. (A summed unbalanced output would be great, too, but that might be unrealistic for the Mj's board space and price range.) As differentiators, the Rag would still have twice the power, the relay stepper, the more sophisticated managed signal path, and (probably) the unbalanced output.
A consumer XLR-to-USB microphone interface. Current market is dominated by Mackie, Focusrite, Avid, Tascam, Apogee. Maybe I'm out of touch with reality here because I'm so into the world of podcasting, but I see the hallmarks of a Schiitable market:
- Increasing demand from hobbyists and prosumers, as podcasts grow like crazy and home-recording is the norm for so many of today's musicians.
- Lots of terrible-sounding, ugly, poorly made options for $100–400, with the only great-sounding ones usually above $600.
- Lots of people using big, clunky, ugly, complex "pro" gear at home because there's nothing else.
- Fully integrated alternatives, USB mics, are mediocre at best (Blue Yeti, Shure PG42-USB, Rode Podcaster).
- Any dependence on PC/Mac software is usually an unreliable, unnecessary annoyance, with all-hardware products generally superior and successful.
- Requires expertise in high-quality, low-noise audio component design, including amplification, DACs, and ADCs, with standard USB sound interfaces, paired with low-cost production, into nice-looking final products.
Maybe it's a pipe dream, and maybe (probably) I don't know the market at all. But I think there could be something there if they wanted to address it.