A new take on Delta Sigma DACs, with couple extras on top.
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I will be purchasing one at the same time as I snag a Valhalla 3 next week. 
Update 1: A lot of chatter going on over on the other forum in the main Schiit thread. Most of the bells and whistles of Mimir are only realized in the Forkbeard app. At this time the Android app is still in development, so the only way to enable those features are via iOS. As an Android user, I won’t be able to test out all those features unless I borrow an iPad (or see if my older one is compatible).
Features include PEQ, Balance controls, NOS mode (bypasses the filters of the ESS DAC and disables their inhouse DSP filter/Mesh Filter, Digital Volume Control, and over the air updates (future functionality coming down the line*).
I am still looking forward to trying out the Mesh filter, and I am hopeful that they will get out the Android app sometime this year (Jason’s law not withstanding).
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Mimir is on its way to me along with Valhalla 3. So … fun times ahead.
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Very early impressions of Mimir. Mimir sounds like no other DS DAC I have heard, and it comes closer to my Yggdrasil MIB than I would have thought. I would say that it is more detailed and has better staging than the Bifrost 2/64 , yet it has non of the harshness of other sub $1,000 DS DACs. I would say that if you don’t care about modular upgrades, skip the Bifrost and get a Mimir.
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A slight update.
Schiit Audio is working on getting mesh into Modi as well, and they might try to make it a less expensive option for Bifrost 2 as well. No dates nor prototypes mentioned, so we probably won’t see anything for a while.
I tried Mimir with the Vali 3 yesterday and it pairs really well with that amp too. If Schiit does indeed come out with a mesh Modi, it might make the perfect stack with the Vali 3 (at its price point). I doubt the Modi version will be as good as the Mimir, but we shall see.
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