And again people miss the point.
I'm referring to an all in one piece.
Selling out? What are you on about? Targeting a new segment for people that don't want to 'stack' gear when one single component can do the same thing? Yeah, selling out.
They did it with the Fulla, they can sure as hell move up to a higher performing device.
"OMGZ, Schiit made a dac/amp, such loserz, eww!"
Plenty of people love minimalistic gear. Why have two, when you can have one that does it all? Yes, there are people who DON'T buy Schiit, because they haven't made a higher perfmoring dac/amp yet.
Enough with the audio snobbery. Schiit stated they wouldn't do amp/dac in the past, yet we got the Fulla. Times are changing, get over it.
I don't think selling out is the right term too, but I also don't think Schiit will come out with a desktop DAC/Amp in the near future, if ever. The reasoning from the get go for not combining the amp and dac into a single case is that it's very restrictive. If ever a better DAC or amp comes out, you'll have to change the whole unit, it's a waste. In fact, that's why all their DACs are modular, if you ever need to upgrade to a better USB card, or DAC, you can just swap out the affected component for a new one, no need to replace the entire thing. Based on this, I don't think Schiit will come out with a DAC/amp.
If you had read Schiit Happened, you would know that Fulla actually started out as a side project. Jason was working on prototypes named Valkyries, and decided what the heck, how small can I make a DAC/amp be? That became the dingleberry prototype. TL
R, at the end of the day, there were too many problems with the Valkyries and only the Fulla/Dingleberry work right, so he decided to turn it into reality. In this case, for Fulla to be as portable as possible, and to keep costs down, it makes more sense to combine both DAC and amp into a single case.
So no, I won't see that Fulla is a sign of changing time.
Two new products:
Pre-Amp
Portable DAC / headphone Amp
One upgrade:
Bifrost board based on new Yggy chip
It's NOT headphones.
Pre-amp, highly possible because Jason has expressed interest in that idea before.
Portable DAC/amp (I'm assuming with a battery), I doubt so because Jason said before they are not interested in battery-tech at the moment, and they won't ever do a portable gear until they can do it much better than what others are doing. I hope I'm wrong on this, I won't mind a new portable dac/amp, especially a powerful unit that can power orthodynamics cans.
Upgrade board for bifrost, again, I hope this to be true, but I don't think it will be. It seems like Schiit will be announcing 3 brand new products, not an upgrade. Again, I fervently hope I'm wrong.
