I have no clue what you should buy friend, I do not know you or your needs. You should better advise yourself. But jot1 is not very good. Buy good crap, do not buy bad crap.
Buy jot2 or magnius, or a 1800$ Mini GSX, or a violectric.
Schiit Jotunheim 2 - Impressions Thread
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I have no clue what you should buy friend, I do not know you or your needs. You should better advise yourself. But jot1 is not very good. Buy good crap, do not buy bad crap.
Buy jot2 or magnius, or a 1800$ Mini GSX, or a violectric.
Vercingetirex
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Yes. It measures extremely well. You might want to check the magnius thread though for how it actually translates to sounding.
I have Jot 2, and recently picked up the Asgard 2 on closeout so I could try out a Class A amp. I am using LCD-X headphones, and I have to say there are a lot of songs that I prefer the sound signature of the Asgard 2 with the LCD-X. That said, soundstage is better on the Jot 2, but Asgard 2 is just easier to listen with its slightly mellower highs. So, my suggestion, would be to consider the synergy between your headphones and amps.
Agreed - synergy between the amp and headphone is critical IMHO. I have an Asgard 3 and it pairs beautifully with the Dan Clark Audio Aeon Closed, for example.
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Have several headphones I plan on using.
My headphones are
Audeze LCD 2( SE & Balanced)
Audeze EL 8 (Single Ended)
Beyerdynamic DT 880 pro (Single Ended)
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 pro (Single Ended)
Focal Elear (SE & Balanced)
Speakers
Mackie MR6 (Balanced)
My headphones are
Audeze LCD 2( SE & Balanced)
Audeze EL 8 (Single Ended)
Beyerdynamic DT 880 pro (Single Ended)
Beyerdynamic DT 1990 pro (Single Ended)
Focal Elear (SE & Balanced)
Speakers
Mackie MR6 (Balanced)
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Jot 2 dispatched!
I will be feeding it with a Bifrost 2 but wanted to check if it's better to feed it via RCA or XLR from the Bifrost 2?
My headphone use will be a mix of SE and Balanced but in terms of my permanent connection between B2 and Jot2, is it fine to keep them connected by XLR?
Going to interesting comparing the Jot 2 & Asgard 3 in SE output
You never did update us on your impressions. How does Jot2 SE compare to Asgard3 SE?
great review, question, can you recommend any 500-600$ amp that sounds like 600$?
or 700$, or 800$, or 900$... thanks.
the 300$ amp sounds very reasonable, but I already own an amp that sounds like 200$, I should get me somehting better. What would you recommend?? thanks!
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God at first I thought you were being a little harsh. Then I read the review. God the reference to amp cost and how much it sounded like was too much.
This is a new thing now. Associating sound quality to $ value
...in a single amplifier
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Jot 2 sounds better - A3 is still excellent, especially for its price, but it sounds a little too smooth/soft compared to the Jot 2.
I will be testing the balanced out of the Jot 2 soon, hopefully next week and I understand that it's the balanced output where it really shines
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Thanks for the report! Sounds like a win-winmore situation.
This is a new thing now. Associating sound quality to $ value
Exactly. If you look at the huge amount of 100% pure BS left and right, on the one hand, and then that guy saying exactly that, which, let me tell you, I found very practical and realistic, which I can appreciate, instead of so much BS. Because, let me tell you, measurements are not all, but some items, you read/watch 20 reviews, and opinions could not be more different about certain item... you need to use 20 reviews to get an abstract one decent review. Been in the rabbit hole in few other hobbies mate, not gonna be me feeding that system, otherwise I will not be able to sit down... LOL.
By the way, now that we are talking money, and only money. How much would cost a proper real full class A amp/pre-amp, with both single ended and balance outputs for both headphones and pre-amped out... ??? 1000$? 2000$? and it can have a remote, even better.
WaveTheory
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Thanks.
To more generally explain what I was attempting to communicate with my 2 $300 amps in one box comment was try to illustrate about where I thought Jot 2's raw performance fell relative to Asgard 3 at $200 and MLP/G111 at $500-600. IMO Jot 2 is better than A3 but the gap is smaller between A3 and J2 than the gap between J2 and MLP/G111. In general it's really hard to say "sounds like $$$" but I tried it here to provide some sort of scale.
To answer your question, the G111 I mentioned in review to my ear sounds appropriately priced at $549. From there I think your price gaps are too small to hear meaningful sonic differences. Loosely there are price tiers. The boundaries of tiers aren't fixed or rigid but performance tiers often go something close to this:
<$200, 200-399, 400-749, 750-1199...
It's a, lot easier to compare individual pieces within price tiers than across price tiers. This is another way of saying I would expect a $600 amp and a $700 amp to be very close in technical performance.
I hope this makes some amount of sense.
