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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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mahgister
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Great post! thanks...

I will only add that my not so silly moral imperative is the ratio S.Q./ price tag, it is a "relative" tag on our flowing navigating audio journey...Relative yes for each of us , but very important for most of us...

i am with you for the gear criticism jealousy...

Criticism of gear is sometimes like boasting about ONE piece of gear though the inverse of jealousy....Not always useful... Reviews made some sense in great numbers to make a choice...Especially if we comparatively analyse them...

i am in the impossibility to listen to the gear before choosing it.... I read hundred of reviews before choosing each piece...i choose my dac and amplifier and the speakers this way with success...No regrets after 7 years with the same gear...

The brand names of my piece of gear matter for me yes, but way less than the controls method and devices used in and for their embeddings electrical, mechanical and acoustical working dimensions...because many other good pieces of gear could have replaced them, but nothing can replace  embeddings control in S.Q. improvement... Even not most upgrade on the same massive scale of improvement caused by these control methods.....

Thats all i have learned in my last INTENSE 10 years of my audio journey now....

😁😊

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.

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mahgister
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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...

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