The new Schiit Aegir Amplifier now shipping

Here is my room hit list for Friday morning at AXPONA 2019:

16-Aster: Shelter
384: Schiit
354: Fern & Roby
362: ATC/Lone Mountain Audio
442-444: Glenn Poor/Technics
452: Aesthetix
478: CPT A/V; Emerald Physics
552: Xact Audio
546: Linear Tube Audio
606: Linear Tube Audio
652: CAT
670: Benchmark Media Systems
696: Linear Tube Audio
1429: Sanders Sound Systems
1440: Durand Tonearms & Evolution Acoustics
1480: AGD Productions
8415: Linear Tube Audio
8470: Etymotic Research
9424: Mag-Lev Audio

Hope to see some of you in the rooms!
Dan

Schiit calls this design Continuity. Biased at less power for a higher power class A output in the class A region.  And eliminates nonlinearity at the crossover region between class A and class AB, so the output is more like class A than class AB. 

George, your second image link appears dead. 

This is Schiit co-founder Jason’s take on the Aegir’s design history:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701...

Must be my iPhone X. Same link still dead; other alternative link works.

@George: check out the head-fi link. It’s not a picture but an explanation that’s likely better than a picture.

It’s helpful to read beyond the first paragraph in most, if not all, of Jason’s writings. As much as he is a talented EE geek, he’s a very talented writer having a very substantial background in that arena. Besides, it would be a far shorter chapter had he given the punchline in the first few paragraphs.

And I think that reading the entirety of his writing there will correct your misapprehensions about what Schiit’s Continuity actually entails.

@porscheracer, +1, for understatement:

“Guess what, the original idea didn’t work out...”

And from my count reading the Jason’s head-fi chapter, the next 15-ish iterations of the “original idea” didn’t work out either.


04-12-2019 7:09pm
@George wrote:
“...as I said probably lower rails and higher bias..”

Well, you got that wrong..

Besides, you forgot about transconductance droop, for which no class A/AB design accommodates or eliminates. Yep, nothing new here at all.

I’m good with my understanding.  

@snapsc, nice share of the above link.

@kalali, I attended AXPONA Friday morning and heard their (Schiit) Aegir in an audio system. I discerned nothing offensive about the SQ, which is the best I can discern when I have no prior experience with ANY of the other components in the setup. (That’s the primary handicap of industry or consumer audio shows in general: reference context is a black hole.)

But encouraging one to become educated about a designer’s product by reading the entirety of a relatively short write-up (15 min for most) before pontificating about their confirmation bias in a post is not an evil thing to do. George is usually open minded about most technical discussions. And maybe he read the entire write-up on the head-fi site by now.

And I agree with the last point made by the OP: George always supports manufacturers who devote their resources in product development and consumer marketing with the consumer’s pocketbook in mind (as in savings to the consumer).  

I asked Jason whether he overlapped with Jim when they were at Sumo. He said they didn’t. Apparently, Sumo had two lead guys after Jim departed and before Jason arrived at Sumo.