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You guys know that Schiit made this for schiits and giggles right? Then again I don't know how much QC effort they put on this since even Schiit themselves are schitting on this product. Then again at least you get 2 year warranty with questionable customer service for the cost of a Benjamin
Just $ 99.- and a nice metal enclosure.
Measures just a little bit poorer than Archel2. More power though.
Someday, someone will send one to Amir and we get to see other measurements too.
My only comment would be the lack of DC protection (the amp is DC coupled) which would be really easy to implement given they already have an output relay in there.
That's what the relay is there for. It would not cost much more to use the same relay for DC protection on the output.
If only because the design is DC coupled.
On this site it would appear to be! I actually became aware of this site whilst investigating whether I should buy the Asgard 3 and despite a lot of negativity the only root cause for it I could find was moaning about customer service and a short-lived technical problem with an amp they sold 10 years ago. I wonder if, during A/B testing of a schitt amp/dac and an alternative of a similar price/generation, the haters would actually be able to identify which was which? (I subsequently bought it, and think it's great).
This implementation should work very well, 8 opamps per channel in parallel. But how do they have such mediocre performance (for the component they chose). They are selling it for 99 dollars so I don't think there's anything bad about it either. Adi2dac has better distortion vs amplitude with two less opa1688s. (similar circuits)
Probably true, but that's what product development is about. By the time a product is released to customers it should be well sorted. Unfortunately in the past at least Schiit have had a habit of putting half baked products on sale and using customer experience to figure out what bugs still need to be addressed. A good and fairly recent example is the turntable mess.
No company can ever guarantee a new product is 100% sorted when it goes on sale, but companies like JDS and Benchmark put effort into getting it right before sending products to customers.
