[XERO1]

He's a Schiil. Always has been. Always a huge write-up that gets more excited as he goes. There's a moment of revelation included to raise excitement (the **** Me! moment). It's all very suspicious. I would say it's paid for. I have always gotten that impression. Whatever.

.....but it entertains me.

 

[jbarrentine]

I'll give you that. I certainly can't write it, so maybe that's part of the fun.

 

[hiImGrant]

He's a Schiil. Always has been. Always a huge write-up that gets more excited as he goes. There's a moment of revelation included to raise excitement (the **** Me! moment). It's all very suspicious. I would say it's paid for. I have always gotten that impression. Whatever.

Could be, that would be excellent marketing honestly. A lot of it rings true for me though, having heard it directly against the ADI2 for myself.
I wonder how common that approach is in general. I know a lot of youtubers have been accused of similar stuff. Seems like a good approach. Unless the reviews are Totally baseless, then people would eventually figure it out and that’s bad for everyone.

 

[XERO1]

Could be, that would be excellent marketing honestly. A lot of it rings true for me though, having heard it directly against the ADI2 for myself.
I wonder how common that approach is in general. I know a lot of youtubers have been accused of similar stuff. Seems like a good approach. Unless the reviews are Totally baseless, then people would eventually figure it out and that’s bad for everyone.

He’s not a shill, but he’s a total Schiit fanboy.
I always take his opinions and reviews with a grain of salt, but I think he gets things mostly right most of the time.

 

[Sonic Defender]

I have more respect for AMIR at ASR, way more respect, and I personally think that ASR indeed turned up the heat forcing Schiit to produce a better engineered product. In either case great work from Schiit, just need well implemented Bluetooth now.

 

[jbarrentine]

What's with the apparent less than stellar toslink performance?

 

[MtnMan307]

My Modius should be here Monday. I’m excited to finally have a balanced DAC for the Jot and stacking with it and Lyr 3.

 

[CoryGillmore]

Considering how poorly the integrated 4490 DAC in the Jotunheim measures, would it be safe to assume that adding a Mobius to my Jotunheim would be a worthwhile purchase? I've never before purchased a standalone DAC before...

 

[MtnMan307]

Considering how poorly the integrated 4490 DAC in the Jotunheim measures, would it be safe to assume that adding a Mobius to my Jotunheim would be a worthwhile purchase? I've never before purchased a standalone DAC before...

I would say it would be. Although I just have the Jotunheim with no DAC in it.

 

[CoryGillmore]

I would say it would be. Although I just have the Jotunheim with no DAC in it.

I want to pull the trigger on this...I just need a pair of 6inch XLR cables...which is proving quite hard to find on Amazon for me...

 

[MtnMan307]

I want to pull the trigger on this...I just need a pair of 6inch XLR cables...which is proving quite hard to find on Amazon for me...

I went with a pair of 1.5 foot cables on Amazon. I agree that shorter is probably better but they should do fine for now. I also picked up a 1.5 foot RCA cable for the Lyr 3.

 

[XERO1]

I want to pull the trigger on this...I just need a pair of 6inch XLR cables...which is proving quite hard to find on Amazon for me...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M0K2HPM/

 

[XERO1]

Considering how poorly the integrated 4490 DAC in the Jotunheim measures, would it be safe to assume that adding a Mobius to my Jotunheim would be a worthwhile purchase? I've never before purchased a standalone DAC before...

I think it would be, but not just becasue it measures better. Two bigger benefits would be Schiit's propritary Unison USB interface and a 4V output from its balanced outs. From what I've read, it seems that the DAC cards put out a lower than normal voltage internally, and having the full 4V would lower the Jot's noise floor and allow it to operate at it's peak potential, at least input voltage-wise.

 

[MtnMan307]

I've had the Jot for almost 3 years now and have always wanted to use it to its full potential with a balanced DAC. Modius is a cheap way to run the Jot in a fully balanced configuration.

 

[XERO1]

I've had the Jot for almost 3 years now and have always wanted to use it to its full potential with a balanced DAC. Modius is a cheap way to run the Jot in a fully balanced configuration.

The AK4490 card is fully balanced, but the Multibit card is not. The multibit card uses Jason's CAB (Cheap-Ass Balanced) circuit (which the Bifrost 2 also uses).

But both DAC cards are necessarily compromised designs due to their small size.