Schitt Folkvangr Thread: speculation, impressions, questions

Can't speak for the Susvara but I have a Ferrum Oor powering my orthos, including an he6, and it sounds fantastic with them and even with my VO. I still prefer the VO from my Starlett but if I didn't already have it, I'd be perfectly content with the Oor alone.

There's a small thread about it here, I submit that it may be worth your time investigating further.

 

For what it's worth, it's on the back of the amp:



EDIT: It's also in the manual too included with the unit. All that said, agree it wouldn't hurt to properly spell it out clearly in the product description.

 

f**k I hope they do a tube phono stage next.

 

Is it a good choice for high impedance planars, like LCD-3 (110 ohms) or LCD-4 (200 ohms) without using the impedance multiplier feature?

 

It's pretty. I wish it was a bit less expensive.

I'd rather Schiit bought the rights to manufacture Shortest Way amps and be producing those at much lower prices. Schiit's value proposition seems to be sliding further and further down the product line to the really cheap stuff. They seem to be going the same route that headphone manufacturers are, only making uber expensive flagship type stuff that isn't any better than their older offerings. Time will tell I suppose. At least it has a full size pot.

Edit: It's nice that it has 2 inputs.

 

Excluding shipping costs, I'd be reluctant to believe you could make a Shortest Way cheaper in the US than you could in Russia (before the recent unpleasantness) especially given the increasing cost of transformers and metal. Someone correct me if they know more.

"Better" is hard, but I think it's industry stagnation and market saturation. We saw huge leaps over the past decade and it is usually a lot easier to replace shitty products with great ones than it is to replace great products with greaterer. At this point, different may have to suffice for worth talking about, most of the time.

 

What are you basing this on? You haven't heard Folkvangr I assume.

FWIW I don't find Modi Multibit to be at all competitive with Gungnir Multibit or Yggdrasil. BF2 (slightly compressed sounding, treble glare) is not even as good as Gungnir Multibit. I haven't heard Vali 2, but Vali 1 and Magni 3+ was not as good as Lyr 2/3, Valhalla 2 (differences aside). I didn't like MJ2, but same deal. Etc, etc.

The value of these components becomes much more dramatic/obvious on better upstream gear btw, and I don't think Schiit falls into the ballpark of manufacturers you're referring to... their products steadily improve the further up you go... in fact, their higher end gear is severely underpriced for the performance you get.

 

What has Schiit released that is both "uber expensive" and also not better than their older offerings? I'm confused.

Yggdrasil LIM is cheaper than the OG, even before the price hike.
Loki Max is objectively better than their other EQ boxes.
Tyr is supposed to be better than their other power amps.

???

 

For the last year or two I thought the Schiit 10 tubes headphones amp will be around $800-1200, I never thought it will be as close as $1800! I agree with @Grattle that I wish it was less expensive and I also wish it sounds like a $1800 amp.

Also remember it is a limited run, so not much sales to cover the R&D.

 

Slight tangent, but I saw that futures on metal's were down quite a bit with anticipation of a recession and labor shortage stagnation. This might mean we are at or near a peak as far as costs on such items, depending on how labor effects transformer pricing. Just speculation of course.

 

For the last year or two I thought (insert any commercial product here) would be $x. I never thought it would be close to 2x.

Lets start a potential product list:
used car
plywood
graphics cards
bread/groceries
gasoline
etc, etc, etc

 

So want one but headphones are starting to take a back seat to speakers and I need better ones.. @schiit make some killer speakers for the price of the new head amp and I'll buy those instead but I can't have both !

 

Here's a question for you @purr1n

Stacking Folkvangr on Gungnir or Yggdrasil - OK assuming your house stays below 80 degrees?

 

I didn't word my question correctly, I was asking about heat safety not synergy.

I meant given Folkvangr's running temp, is it safe to stack it on top of Yggdrasil or Gungnir assuming your house isn't hot?

 

I sincerely hope that this amp is underpriced for what you get. I like to see boundaries pushed. Maybe a fun one off project gets their juices flowing. This particular one is just not for me. I can say that can’t I?

 

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