Hey everyone, I wanted to drop my 2 cents (ok a bit more then that) into the discussion of the Midgard. I've been fortunate enough to spend ample (oh yes pun intended) with it recently. I just uploaded my video impression of this amp to my YouTube. I'll link that below for anyone who cares to watch.
A couple of things to share first:
This Halo technology has so much potential. I am very excited to see what else Schiit does with it! I know they've already called it Halo, but to me it's like a chameleon. It just morphs so well to a headphones capabilities (not all the time).
For instance: My Auteur Classic is a mid-forward/focused headphone. I own it because I adore the midrange of it. I was surprised to hear how this amp highlighted that aspect of the headphone. Not in a way that made it too forward, or too pronounced...but just...it handled it well. Call it grip, call it control or just call it what you want. That is what I heard. It did the same thing with my Arya Organic. Another headphone I adore and really dug the sound of it through the amp. It has 5W of power at 32ohm, but that isn't really the main thing here. It's just how it handles. I do use high gain quite a bit with this amp. I was worried at first that it may alter the sound just enough to dislike, but that is not true.
If you care to watch, you'll see I used other headphones with this as well. Typically it synced up very well. I also used this through my Bifrost 2/64. So the obvious case of synergy will come in to play.
I'm thrilled at the price point for this amp because it will challenge the game as we know it. It's not like they just threw a bunch of watts at it and bragged on power, nope. They did so much more.
I'm intrigued about hearing it paired with a Susvara. That's damn impressive on it's own!