The Big Shit: The Schiit Audio Mjolnr Headphone Amplifier

Look at Schiit Audio products, and you will see they are small and dainty. Not so, the Schiit Audio Mjolinr ($749.00 USD). It's 1/2 the price of the Bryston, and yet a respectable 13 lbs. Hold it in your hands, and it feels like two Johnson 5.5 lb hand weights held freely. If you want to do audio, you'll need to add a Gungnir for $749.00 USD. Try a headphone.

Look at it in person, and there's no problem with the back:



It's got RCA's and XLR's, and is a bit cheap, but that ...



... will have no implications with your performance.

It's a bit noisy. 104 dB. (Fine enough for 16-bit, but not for 24).
Terrible cross-talk: -75dB.

Talk about a blow.

We've decided that if we want to review headphones, it will be fine as a reviewer's tool. It's only got balanced, but what's the problem with that?

Looking at the front, and you will see that the knob is a bit cheap. They blur it out in the photo. Radio shack would sell them (the knobs, that is), but not the Mjolnr.

The circuit boards are cheap, and we don't like the transformers. Frankly, we don't see an item on the board that we like, nor the board itself, but the case is fine for the dime. We like it as a modifiable item.

Not have the cash for a set of Thorens TEM-3200 amp's, and like the circlotron circuit?


Product: Schiit Audio Mjolnr Headphone Amplifier
Price: $749.00 USD
Fine for an enthusiast of hi-fi, but not a practitioner.