565hunter
Head-Fier
Hey Mark, did you find a resolution to your problem?Great, thank you for the info, I have some testing to do on my side.
Hey Mark, did you find a resolution to your problem?Great, thank you for the info, I have some testing to do on my side.
Hey Mark, did you find a resolution to your problem?
Hello guys,
I'm new here. Can anyone please tell me how naturally the Jot sound? I have now an Asgard 2 and i like it very much because of its realistic sound. The two amps from Schiit that i found to be artificial were the Mjolnir 1 (not sparking but harsh treble) and the Vali 2 (plastic and hazy mids/treble), that i sold.
Thank you so much,
Hello guys,
I'm new here. Can anyone please tell me how naturally the Jot sound? I have now an Asgard 2 and i like it very much because of its realistic sound. The two amps from Schiit that i found to be artificial were the Mjolnir 1 (no sparking and harsh treble) and the Vali 2 (plastic and hazy mids/treble), that i sold.
Thank you so much,
If you like a clear and detailed sound then the Jot might be for you. It is considered to be a bright amp when compared to other amps but that doesn't mean that it is lean. If you're looking for a warm sound then this wouldn't be an amp that you would like.
How "natural" an amp sounds is also dependent on the headphone that is paired with it along with ones experiences. For me a HD650 with a BH Crack is about as close to what I'd consider a live sound and what I can remember when I was playing in a band back in high school and college while my friends 2 daughters who are professional musicians (violin and piano) think that the HD650 + OTL amp (BH Crack or Elise) is one of the best at rendering then in a un-amplified setting.Thank @Tuneslover and @DavidA but i didn't mean neutral. I meant how the amp portrays sound. Drum, percussion and specially bell sounded fake (to my ears) on the vali 2 and the Mjolnir1(ss amp). It is a little hard to describe. Just like jjj sss crisp voice on many balanced amateur iems, it is not life-like.
could I get lost in it +mimby for hours upon hours of casual listening any day of the week with a 650? Yes please.. is it a wickedly solid choice for a $400 amp? Definitely.
Yeah, I've got the eitr>mimby>jot chain and, after adding some high quality cables, via ZMF dynamics the upgrade bug is definitely tamped down ... I've found if I make too many changes too fast I never get enough experience to understand what I'm really trying to solve for.
I haven't listened to enough amps for long enough to say whether the Jot is "bright" - what I can say is, from my experience, yes, there are a few tracks that are sharp no matter the headphone (hd600, ZMFs, Th-x00) and with the x00 there are definitely some sharp spikes. But right now, via the Atticus with suede pads, about 99% of things sound stellar and I haven't gone back to the Eikon for awhile.
Next year I'll probably get an OTL or maybe a WA8, but until then I'm just finding track matches and enjoying the jot.
If you plug an RCA cable into the input of any amp and touch the centre pin at the free end you will get a hum, if you touch the centre pin and the outer contact the hum will lessen maybe almost to the point of disappearing, this is normal.Hi, I don't have a lot of experience with amps or electrical engineering.
My Jotunheim doesn't have a hum when using the internal DAC. However if I change to the SE RCA-in setting and touch the ends of the RCA cables I get a very audible hum. This is not present when the RCAs are connected to an external DAC (iDSD micro). I think the amp sounds great and I don't hear any distortion under normal use cases.
Does this RCA hum mean mine is not grounded and is a shock risk?