Schiit products - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: grouchobyte
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2016, 07:03:50 pm
content: I like the name for this series.Appropriate IMHOhttp://schiit.com/products/fulla@grouchobyte

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2016, 09:23:24 pm
content: Quote from: grouchobyte on July 15, 2016, 07:03:50 pmWhy? Thy have pretty good products, they sell big time if you can do better do it and get rich!http://schiit.com/products/yggdrasil

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 15, 2016, 10:52:27 pm
content: "That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard" (waggling my eyebrows)

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2016, 11:00:15 pm
content: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha funny stuff .Someone does not get it though ...

author: FuzzyOnion
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 05:51:17 am
content: Quote from: Kjelt on July 15, 2016, 09:23:24 pmAgreed. I have a couple of their headphone amps I bought 2 years ago - one of the little tube amps I got to tinker with and one of their balanced amps.It helps if you're into that sort of thing.

author: vilts
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 06:05:45 am
content: Founder of Schiit has written a very nice story about the company, starting it up, marketing, audio in general etc etc -http://www.head-fi.org/t/701900/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.Good read. Latest chapter "Elephant in the room" is his view of the current high-end audio and the ridiculousness going on there, concentrating on the pricing.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 06:31:48 am
content: What I find odd is that the SNR ratings on their equipment, while not bad, are much lower than what would be expected for the price. Their best DAC is only rated to 117dB while an Asus STX that costs about 1/10 the price does 124dB.

author: AKM
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 08:51:56 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 16, 2016, 06:31:48 amProbably they are actually measuring it and not taking the values from the IC datasheets.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 08:53:13 am
content: Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 16, 2016, 06:31:48 amI am not sure but i think that might have to do with the dac chip.They use true bit dacs so NOS dacs and they are up to 20bit at the moment. Take two per channel and they get 21 bit. The OS dacs some claim 32 bits.However they are not true bit dacs and a lot of people find the true bit dacs sound better.Woulb be nice to have a topic about this but I guess the 24 and 32 bit dacs with oversampling are "false" claims they are not truely 32 bits.

author: daqq
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 09:53:14 am
content: They probably use parts from these:http://www.assmann-wsw.com/wo/de/

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 10:27:12 am
content: Wait ... how does a non oversampling DAC use extra bits when it has more than 16 bits with a 16 bit source?

author: Hydrawerk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2016, 08:53:58 pm
content: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sheeeit

author: Aeternam
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 18, 2016, 02:02:30 pm
content: Don't know if this is true but I read somewhere that the owner's wife complained that he spent too much time "with this schiit" while working on the first prototype. He was looking for a good name for the future company; the rest is, well SchiitAnd it works too, we're talking about it

author: BloodyCactus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2016, 02:19:48 pm
content: I have an uber bifrost that at some point will get the multibit dac upgrade.. its a fantastic dac!

author: djQUAN
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2016, 02:42:50 pm
content: They do make decent products performance wise (I have their Bifrost) and modded it a little but my friend's Asgard was a little more exciting.http://quan-diy.com/misc/schiit/asgard.htmHere's inside my Bifrost.http://quan-diy.com/misc/schiit/bifrost.htm

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 18, 2016, 02:48:35 pm
content: Quote from: djQUAN on July 18, 2016, 02:42:50 pmDafuq

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2016, 06:39:24 pm
content: Obviously they are taking the Tongue En Cheek approach. There is room for that I think.