[ab initio]

Hello Schiit fans,

I'm about to dive into schiit's dac/amp/switch, but i want to know if they have a speaker amp. It's for nothing more than just a few 8ohm shelf speakers.

 
http://schiit.com/products/ragnarok

 

[madwolfa]

Hello Schiit fans,

I'm about to dive into schiit's dac/amp/switch, but i want to know if they have a speaker amp. It's for nothing more than just a few 8ohm shelf speakers.

 
You're just in time.
 
http://schiit.com/products/ragnarok
 
Still in beta, though.

 

[CH23]

You're just in time.

http://schiit.com/products/ragnarok

Still in beta, though.

http://schiit.com/products/ragnarok

Sadly i can't get this in europe as of yet. I'll wait patiently.

Importing would rise the price + shipping by 23% and that's a little too much for me right now.

Thanks for this though!

 

[sandab]

It seems to suggest my Valhalla 2 "should have" enough RMS power for a set of LCD-3s... dunno about that.

 

[madwolfa]

  It seems to suggest my Valhalla 2 "should have" enough RMS power for a set of LCD-3s... dunno about that.

 
Modern LCDs are not that hard to drive, really... Still, Valhalla would be less than optimal for that kind of load, I guess.

 

[Wildcatsare1]

^I have heard good things about the Valhalla 2 and the 400i, but that is the only Orthodynamic/OTL combo I know to work.

 

[BLACKENEDPLAGUE]

  Butt the Schiit Pile is calling out to you, "Listen, Listen Listen Listen Listen."

 

[Themorganlett85]

 

Sweet Jesus this is awesome, I have wanted that fairy dead since 1998

 

[BLACKENEDPLAGUE]

 
Sweet Jesus this is awesome, I have wanted that fairy dead since 1998

 
it was sad when it left though

 

[StanD]

  I've found that website to calculate headphone SPL levels incorrectly, for example the results for the HE500 and HD600 are way off. One of the forum members, Rob Robinette has an excel spreadsheet somewhere on head-fi that that is accurate. He has also put an excellent app up for Android called "Headphone Calculator"on the Google Play Store, for free. This app doesn't compare to amps,so that would be our time consuming task.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appinventor.ai_robinette77.HeadphoneCalculator&hl=en

 
 

  As long as it gives me somewhat of a ballpark estimate I'll be happy.

The cases I looked at were way off, out of the ballpark.

 

[superjawes]

Maybe you could go give the guy a few pointers in the thread he made here on Head-Fi.

 

[Themorganlett85]

   
 
The cases I looked at were way off, out of the ballpark.

Well for an audiophile noob like myself it will suffice.

 

[Billheiser]

 
Well for an audiophile noob like myself it will suffice.

Well, not in the cases where the calculations or conclusions are wrong.

 

[Themorganlett85]

Well it's not that big of a deal to me since I already know I want the LCD-2 with the Mjolnir. There's not that many more headphones on there that I want besides maybe a few Beyerdynamic ones so it's all good in the proverbial hood.

 

[Billheiser]

  Well it's not that big of a deal to me since I already know I want the LCD-2 with the Mjolnir. There's not that many more headphones on there that I want besides maybe a few Beyerdynamic ones so it's all good in the proverbial hood.

That's fine.  In your case you have a match of great components which apparently the tool agrees with.  In the single example I tried (the good matching of the Valhalla 2 and the HE400i that Wildcatsare1 mentions above), the tool tells me it won't work.  But it does.  I'm listening to that combo daily now, & it sounds great (from either of the low or high impedance settings, actually).  The 400i sounds better that way than other amps I have tried with it.  Schitt itself notes that the combo works, too.
So, the tool is batting zero, for me and my sample size of one.