"...even better than the old 4 band...." Agreed and the price still seems reasonable for what you get. |
There's a new 4 band as well now called the Loki+. Wonder how much better it is than the original 4 band.
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Bands: 20Hz, 120Hz, 400Hz, 2kHz, 6kHz, 16kHz.
I like this. |
Hello @sanvara - You are absolutely right. Visited the site to look at Loki delivery times and got sidetracked once I saw the Lokius. Did not even register that the Loki Mini+ was a new model. From the Schiit Loki Mini+ FAQ So wasn’t there a Loki Mini, no “Plus,” that you introduced like 5 minutes ago?
Yep, if 5 minutes actually means “more than three years ago.” We decided it was time to make it even better—and keep the price the same, as we are wont to do. We brought out the original Loki Mini because we’re kinda contrarian. Tone controls have become virtually verboten over the last three decades in high-end audio. For those of you who remember some crappy tone control and EQ implementations, including dull, veiled, nasty-sounding knobs on the front of receivers and noisy, truly awful-sounding banks of 10 to 30 sliders (usually fixed in a death-grin), you know that there’s a good reason tone controls went away. But we decided to take a look at it and see what we could make with a single gain stage (rather than 10-30 op-amps in a row) and using passive LC (inductor-capacitor) filtering wherever possible. And we found that we could create an extremely transparent equalizer that allowed for some very nice control over tonal characteristics, without the downside of traditional tone controls or EQs. So we decided to make it and see if you find it interesting as well.
So how is this better than the original Loki Mini?
A number of ways. The biggest thing is a new gain stage with drivers before the output to increase linearity, as well as matched devices throughout. In addition, there’s a new power supply that dramatically reduces noise (already inaudible at like -100dB, but hey, let’s go nuts a bit, right? Plus some tweaks to get maximum THD down, even when you’re really tweaking the knobs.
Measurements are fine, but does this actually sound better?
Absolutely. Or at least we think so.
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