Does Anyone Buy Schiit for the Sake of Schiit?


Most of us I think when buying something where workmanship and materials are less critical than price will go to a discount store like Walmart of Target (I think we've all heard they about calling it Tar-zhay because it's classier than Walmart) or Costco - the sort of stores where what you buy is not the best but it's always good for what you pay for it. I'm wondering, is Schiit the audio equivalent of Target? That is, does anyone buy it because the Schiit gear is particularly good, or merely that it's good for the price? The only Schiit product that I've ever bought is the Asgard as a headphone amp, since I don't use headphones that often, and I wasn't going to put a lot of money into it. Actually, I tried the Vali 2+ at first, and that seemed rather inadequate, so I sent it back and got the Asgard instead. It seems good enough, though I don't have much to compare it to, but it seems to struggle a bit in getting to higher volume levels. 

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I have owned their Mjolnir Headphone Amp and the Bifrost 2.  Both were excellent for their price and perhaps "punched above their weight".  They don't try to play in the stratosphere of the hobby.  They have carved out a niche and have some clever marketing behind them.  You could certainly get a lot less for your money.  Kudos to them.

johnwolfpell: I've used EQs professionally (graphic, notching parametric, etc.) in my pro sound musician life and home audio for decades, but hadn't even considered one in my hifi rig for many years as I'm more of a purist when it comes to that sort of thing. I tried the original Schiit Loki and was blown away at its transparency and lack of any tonal degradation when it's in the system. I use it in line between the preamp and power amp in the "on" but bypassed mode as suggested by Schiit. I actually bought the newer version, the Mini +, and stuck it in the hifi, moving the other one to the video heap. Just a great EQ, and I imagine the Lokius and Loki Max work fine.

Yeah what I like to do is buy equipment for $50k and think it sounds 100 times better. I like to buy into hype. There is nothing more satisfying to me than to buy an audio system more expensive than my house and try to get someone over to listen with me only to find out people think it’s stupid to spend outrageous sums of money on audio gear. That’s what I’m all about. I agree with the posters before me everything is a comprise, but rather calling some piece of audio "walmart gear", is it not more ridiculous to overspend on something without getting the quality you paid for?!?!

Eq. ing the room is more powerful than EQ. ing the gear...

We listen to the gear+room not to the gear alone...

Acoustic is more powerful than tone control...

But for all those with no dedicated room a LOKI can be useful i dont doubt that at all...

My Sansui AU 7700 had 6 buttons for filters and refined tone controls... And i dont need them now... I use them for many years BEFORE acoustic treatment and before room mechanical control implementation...

I love the way people take criticism of equipment personally. Even more humorous are those of us who lecture others regarding spending habits and posit motivations for such "foolish" expenditures. Such insecurity must be grounded in jealousy or some silly economic moral imperative.