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

[tin-ear]

If you can't chew your coffee, what good is it?

I have a friend, who is French, who was born in French Sahara, currently Morocco. He told me that someone there, I think an elderly Arab man (I could embellishing), told him the way to tell if a cup of coffee was good, was if you could float a horseshoe on it.

 

[Lavcat]

I have a friend, who is French, who was born in French Sahara, currently Morocco. He told me that someone there, I think an elderly Arab man (I could embellishing), told him the way to tell if a cup of coffee was good, was if you could float a horseshoe on it.

Explains why the beverage of choice in Morocco is tea.

 

[Luckyleo]

let's hope they move some of this simple tech over to some of their lower end stuff.

I ordered one and am waiting for the shipping notice. Here's an excerpt from their marketing info. On their webpage.

This also ushers in a new direction for future Grado headphone releases​

 

[adydula]

I ordered one and am waiting for the shipping notice. Here's an excerpt from their marketing info. On their webpage.

This also ushers in a new direction for future Grado headphone releases​

Glad to see this from Grado....I have had three different sets and tested their "Hemps"...
Very bright cans here...
Never could get used to the "scratchy" earpads...

Some will say too late to the party, but I hope these are winners!

@Luckyleo please let us all know how they work!
Alex

 

[misterpumpy]

They are only a decade-and-a-half too late to create any real hype over this. $2.5k for a dynamic which will have serious low-end roll-off and very audible pad resonance? Hard pass. It's like an imitation of what that weird Italian company did using DIY Grado-like drivers, including the crazy price, except they are justifying it by putting "HP100" as the model number. I don't mind eating my proverbial hat if they are good headphones, but not over $1k.

I still have two pairs of Rhydon's metal-insert Symphones here, so I know the limitations.

I don’t disagree with a single thing you said here, but there was a pair of grados brought to the first Canjam Dallas by Schiit, and I listened to them on the mjolnir 3 with an yggy variant as the dac and I’m not gonna lie, it was the first time I heard a grado and enjoyed it. I can’t remember for the life of me which model it was, but it told me that grado does have some ability to make a good sounding headphone, but they make a ton of misses, and their build quality and their obsession of non detachable garbage cables is just unacceptable. But yeah, if grado actually makes a great headphone from that, I’ll be interested. All that being said, all your critiques are probably going to be true. I’ll reply to this after Canjam and let you know my impressions. Just to close the loop

 

[adydula]

They are only a decade-and-a-half too late to create any real hype over this. $2.5k for a dynamic which will have serious low-end roll-off and very audible pad resonance? Hard pass. It's like an imitation of what that weird Italian company did using DIY Grado-like drivers, including the crazy price, except they are justifying it by putting "HP100" as the model number. I don't mind eating my proverbial hat if they are good headphones, but not over $1k.

I still have two pairs of Rhydon's metal-insert Symphones here, so I know the limitations.

I get what your saying about these....
Its good to see folks at Grado are listening to the folks out here.
Always rooting for the "home" team Amos....
Yes they will have stiff competition.
Folks at the Dallas CanJam please chime in with your impressions!
Nice to see Jason, "made" in USA with folks from Brooklyn, hand made in the USA as well..

Alex
:>)

 

[Paladin79]

I promised to give my impressions on an Audio Technica AT-ART1000 cartridge used in conjunction with a Rega RB Titanium tonearm and in this case a Rega platter. Speakers were Sonus Faber Sonetto VIII G2’s with a Bowers and Wilkins DB4S subwoofer. Amp and preamp are custom made tube gear, and my group’s reference pieces. I will just say we used a tube phono preamp and leave it at that.

Four of us scored the gear using test music created for us and the average score was over 97 out of 100. All of our 25 criteria were brought to life in a stunning way. None of us concurred on what we might rate as less than perfect so basically there were few weaknesses. Now as far as general listening there was a true sense of being there with live music. The cartridge performed admirably. My choice of fun listening included Stan Getz, Art Pepper, Warren Zevon, and a couple RCA Red Seal records. Personally I listen closely to violin, sax, piano, bass and snare drums on various recordings and all were vibrant and well defined. The system we used did the turntable justice.
I have heard many great turntables and cartridges and this combo ranks among the top IMHO. A different platter might improve it but I am not sure I could hear the difference.

Only 200 of this cartridge are hand made per year so they are not always easy to find.

I am still debating accepting the turntable because one friend upped his offer for it and as @Adam Balm suggested the cartridge needs great care

I might also add yesterday was great fun and the twins were well received in the audio lab. Oftentimes test subjects do not make it into that part of the building but this was not a comparison with other turntables.

 

[Ableza]

Back when I used LPs I used several Grado phono cartridges and loved them. So when I decided to purchase my first "serious HiFi" headphone that was not a Sony MD421 or broadcast-level Sennheiser, I relied on my love for Grado carts and bought something mid-level at the time from Grado. I was very disappointed, and since then have never gone back to try them. YMMV of course, and perhaps I am being close-minded (and also perhaps it's because at the time I had just heard a set from Beyerdynamic that I loved.)

 

[mab1376]

Look what just showed up for Dallas:

A detachable cable?!

 

[adydula]

Testing Midgard and Modius E against some other industry favorites...
Will include Gugnir 2...soon!

 

[Dr. Cube]

A detachable cable?!

The Grado counterpart to a front power switch!

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

The Grado counterpart to a front power switch!

Yeah, but one of those industry-shaking events per decade is enough. Schiit's power switches better stay in the back, lest they risk an uproar that the pundits won't know how to deal with.

 

[LrrTx]

Look what just showed up for Dallas:

See y'all there this weekend. As a former New Yorker, I have a heartfelt affinity for Grado headphones and especially phono cartridges.

 

[bcowen]

Yeah, but one of those industry-shaking events per decade is enough. Schiit's power switches better stay in the back, lest they risk an uproar that the pundits won't know how to deal with.

Plus, most of us wouldn't be able to figure out how to turn it on.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

Plus, most of us wouldn't be able to figure out how to turn it on.

I'd just turn it around by 180º

Two benefits:
- power switch moves to the back where it belongs
- interconnects get way easier to access

Win win!