I’m putting together a headphone stack for a good friend of mine, and went with the Atom and a D50s, which is technically a $250 DAC, but $185 right now at Drop. I could have gone cheaper (D10 or E30 look great), but Bluetooth support was important as a convenience. So, D50s.
lol I also have a D50 sitting on top of my Atom. Though it’s the non-S. In my case, those two items got moved to the bedroom after I upgraded the office setup
Yeah the Atom doesn’t generate hardly any heat so it’s not a problem. The D50 is also smaller so it’d look funny. Unfortunately the Loki doesn’t fit nicely anywhere on it lol
But also, I am a bit surprised how long it’s taking Schiit to get a new Modi out there. They responded well to criticism regarding their Magni and Asgard amps and put out really good revisions. But that’s been months now. Get your Schiit together!
Thing is, I feel that in the signal chain the amp is the most important part other than the headphones. hey, take that extra 100$ from the dac and spend it on the amp! Get a Asgard or Archel or something.
They are still a small company and likely can’t do too much multitasking. So maybe they put effort into the more expensive DAC first, now they’re figuring out how to scale that tech down to the ~$100 price point and finding it difficult?
And if you’re serious about this hobby, invest in a good signal chain (DAC, Amp) so that you’ll have a better assessment of current and future headphones.
Could be, I mean they have already done that though with their new products, I see no reason to buy the jot or the gumby anymore when the asgard 3 and the bifrost 2 exists imo, but the 100 price point is harder to do for sure I would assume
could be Anty…but it’s not good form. I hope they can make a Modi 3+ that fixes the compression issues the 3 suffers from. calling it the 4 would be wrong, since the rest of the stack is still on 3