[TeskR]

How is the DAC module compared to a Schiit Modi (v1)?
 
Currently have Modi > Lyr, but looking to make my life simpler with a SS amp, worth getting the DAC module and cutting the Modi out of the loop also?

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

  How is the DAC module compared to a Schiit Modi (v1)?
 
Currently have Modi > Lyr, but looking to make my life simpler with a SS amp, worth getting the DAC module and cutting the Modi out of the loop also?

i mean the cheapest way to get a ss amp is to buy LISST.

 

[TeskR]

 
i mean the cheapest way to get a ss amp is to buy LISST.

Yeah, however, the Lyr is quite noisy when I use my PM-3, and the LISST tubes are apparently noisier than normal tubes in the original Lyr so they are not really an option unfortunately.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Yeah, however, the Lyr is quite noisy when I use my PM-3, and the LISST tubes are apparently noisier than normal tubes in the original Lyr so they are not really an option unfortunately.

I've always found Lyr the weakest performer in the lineup relative to price. At 349, maybe. At 449, no.

 

[Makiah S]

Sadly, I don't wish to read through 141 pages 
 
but can any one link me to where Jason comments on the Jotunheim, for the LONGEST time the guys at Schiit took a very strong stand against integrated dac/amps [like for ever] so it's odd to see one with their name on it [though tbh it's priced nicely an should bolster sales for them]
 
I'm just curious to see how they came to this product! If some one has a link to a Blog Entry that'd be awesome 

 

[TeskR]

  Sadly, I don't wish to read through 141 pages 
 
but can any one link me to where Jason comments on the Jotunheim, for the LONGEST time the guys at Schiit took a very strong stand against integrated dac/amps [like for ever] so it's odd to see one with their name on it [though tbh it's priced nicely an should bolster sales for them]
 
I'm just curious to see how they came to this product! If some one has a link to a Blog Entry that'd be awesome 

 
If you look at the FAQ section on the product page on Schiit's website they have a kind of explanation there.

 

[Vigrith]

I've always found Lyr the weakest performer in the lineup relative to price. At 349, maybe. At 449, no.

 
I've never auditioned the Lyr so I will refrain from commenting on its priceerformance ratio but that is the only amplifier in their lineup (and the Rag, but that one's out of question regardless as my Devialet Phantoms are self-sufficient) that I've never really considered purchasing.
 
Especially now with the Jotunheim out and about the Lyr's appeal has probably diminished - tube fanatics such as myself are most likely going to be more drawn to either the cheaper Valhalla 2 or to the more expensive and MJ2 which is even more of a jack of all trades whilst the ones looking for a very powerful device at around the $400-500 mark may be tempted to just opt for the Jotun due to its extreme versatility/compactness.

 

[franzdom]

Jot ordered Friday, shipped today 

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Could you make an OTL pivot point amp?

 

[Mirakoolz]

can both the BAL and UNBAL preouts be driven at the same time?

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

  can both the BAL and UNBAL preouts be driven at the same time?

yes.

 

[Jason Stoddard]

  Could you make an OTL pivot point amp?

 
Not without antimatter (you'd need "p-channel" tubes, which would use positrons.)
 
Plus, balanced OTL is not as great of an idea as you might think. To start with, it doubles the output impedance, which OTLs are already challenged by. It also doubles the need for matched tubes, doubles heater current, doubles parts...eek.

 

[jimmers]

 
Not without antimatter (you'd need "p-channel" tubes, which would use positrons.)

Because you can't have holes in a vacuum 

 

[Ancipital]

   
Not without antimatter (you'd need "p-channel" tubes, which would use positrons.)
 

 
Come on, that's defeatist talk!

 

[judmarc]

  Because you can't have holes in a vacuum 

Yeah, was just thinking the same thing - electron "holes" are solid state....