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So I was wondering whether to get the multi bit modi 2 or the modi 2 uber or if I should get the o2 dac/amp. They are all in my price range and I can get any one of those but i was wondering if the multi bit could bring up possible problems? I was also wondering if the modi 2 multi bit and the magni 3 would work together as well as if the multi bit will really improve audio quality. Thank you!

Years ago I bought some Sennheiser HD 700s, and while I enjoy them for certain types of music, they are decidedly underwhelming with anything using bass. (I was real shit at researching...) I've been looking at Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 250 Ohm, and DT990 Premium. Primarily for Hip Hop/R&B/EDM music, as well as gaming. I'm leaning towards the 770's as they offer something different, and I think the 990's might be a bit too similar to my HD 700s. Frustratingly in my research now, I've seen a handful of anecdotes from people saying the 770s had very overwhelming bass, and the 990s are far better for gaming. Also seen several comments about the 990s bass doesn't compare to the 770s. It leaves me a tad confused. $180 is reasonably within my budget, but I made a poor decision previously based on not enough research and do not wish to do so again.

Hi fellow members, Today is a great day. It's Thursday! I would like to ask for your help regarding the choice between the Schiit Fulla 3 and Magni Modi stack. My headphone is a Sennheiser HD599. So not a lot of power is needed. But I like sound quality. At the moment I am using my Shanling M3s as my DAC/AMP combo. It sounds very good, but I don't want to trickle charge it =( (someone has an idea how I can make a data only USB-C Cable?) That would solve the problem. Thanks!

On a Sunday, I viewing that YouTube stream (from John Darko’s YouTube channel). The following is an exercise for me - assessing my understanding of my new-found hobby, as a middle-aged man, living in Canada, whose lucky to have enough disposable income to play with toys. I’d welcome your feedback...My highlights:Timestamp: 2:16. ....baldr’s comment about the received parts being upside-down and backwards. If he had said it was also inside-out... and it exploded, he’d have unwittingly quoted from the 1999 movie, GalaxyQuest... starring Tim Allen, Sigournie Weaver, and Alan Rickmann. Link.Timestamp: 4:38 - 5:38. ...inverted bearings being fully erect. Erections. Erections. Erections. Love it! I also found it fascinating that Schiit Audio’s putting “function over form”. This upcoming device will be a ~15lb chunk of sculpted aluminum with a smoooooooth pivot point. And modular arms?! This device might very well upset the vinyl-playing-turntable market.Timestamp: 10:00. Schiit Floaters. While I was a teenager in the cassette-tape culture, turntable leveling & correction was a few years before my time. The two made a bold statement about this turntable — it’s not designed for the casual vinyl listener. It’s meant for high performance playback @ about $700 USD. Not my interest, but the spin-off technologies will be interesting (next-generation DiscMan/DVDman,...).Timestamp: 11:55. The Supreme Soviet Of DACs... As a teenager of the 80s, this made me sit up. A soviet of... Who talks like that?! I might even use that saying.... Clever.Timestamp: 18:40. Dr. Ivanna. Math/Music/Computer-Coder. Good god. Digital processing can do THAT to a song file?! Parse out and re-tone the voice and/or select instruments?! I’d expect that at the music-studio-level.... but if we as listeners can monkey around with the final product (and make it pleasurable to our individual tastes), that’d be amazing. I think there’s software technology available that’ll correct headphones and/or correct for room echo. And there’s something called Auto-Tune used in hiphop. The This... this goes further up the stream and allows me to alter the source before it hits my DAC... analogEQ.... amp...speakers. I love it how baldr (timestamp ~23:00) bristled at one thinking music processors as tone control. It’s not about making the musical output more accurate to the original source — it’s about enjoyment & pleasurable listening.Timestamp 24:15. Wow. If I understand what Schiit has in mind... they’re developing and implementing their own USB protocol that’s designed from the ground up for multibit-DAC technology (I’m in the weeds here and only partially understand it). Schiit-USB-boards that does NOT sound like ass (it plugs in and just works). Christ, they could then license that technology out (hmmm, like Dolby? Like MQA? [like I said, I don’t understand this concept... no put-downs, please]).Timestamp 26:55. So Schiit might dabble in (host) computer components. Perhaps a stand-alone music streamer or ‘transport’. That translate as a DAP to me. Ah, so that’s how a Raspberrry Pi could be used to feed our Modis, Bifrosts, and such!Timestamp 27:55. Boom! A SchiitPi instead of customers running out and buying a RaspberryPi to stream tunes. It’s a next generation DAP. The little computer boards would have Schiit-designed-music-centric-USB-friendly-DAC chipsets (as a possible product line in the next 10 years).Timestamp 29:55 ...USB sounding like phucking ass... USB 2, 3 ~ what’s my favourite prostate exam? (SPIDIF) > (pre-Schiit-USB protocol). Awesome!Timestamp 30:50... the beta-Schiit-USB is now on-par or better than SPDIF. I appreciated how they both know digital transport (from host to DAC) shouldn’t matter... bits are bits... And yet, there’s a phenomena at work that they just don’t understand (it’s quantum?! ). Another balder zinger: it’s chickenschiit, chicken-salad better than SPDIF. I can’t make this up.Timestamp ~31:00. I’m pleased to see that these 2 guys are using consumer-grade audio sources. PCs.... MacBooks... dinosaur-aged rigs... I’m sure that might come and bite them in the ass eventually — GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). Meh, maybe it’ll only punish cheapscapes like me who use old gear.Timestamp ~34:55. I appreciated how the reviewer drilled our guys on the SchiitPi (a highly modified RaspberriPi). This is going to become a very delicate dance for Schiit — they have to allow others to develop an operating system that liase with the dumb-yet-Rainman-brilliant, Schiit-DAC-chipset on the Pi’s motherboard. Schiit won’t make their own user interface on the SchiitPi (or RaspberryPi). Got it. I’ll run some kind of Linux distro.Timestamp ~38:00. Their proprietary USB-100%-Schiit card’s coming out next year (2019). Meh... beyond my needs. Now, the SchiitPi... THAT’S WHAT I WANT.Timestamp 39:00. It’s worth going through the interview just to see their looks on their faces wrt the state of DSD and MQA. Totalitarian sheep phucking?! Yep, that’s another image I can’t get out of my mind (and can wait to use it at my next beer-BS-session).Timestamp 42:00. Jason asks yes-and-no questions to Mike. It’s worth a listen. If for no other reason to hear Mike growl how future-Schiit-made-electrostatic headphones users should sit in a bathtub full of water. Damn! As my students would say, that’s savage, sir.Timestamp: 45:50. Both of them boil their success down to a simple, phrase: their gear is simple... their gear is reliable... their gear is cheap (they make money selling it be the 1000s).Timestamp: 47:00. Schiit and Massdrop similarities. Get more quality audiophile gear to people for cheap.I urge newcomers like me to watch this interview. It’s educational, it’s coherent, and they use elegant swear words. Mr. Darko, thank you for this content, eh.

Hello, I recently purchased a Magni 3 and Modi 2 and I want to know how to get the best sound out of them, like which position to put the little switch on the Modi 2.

Hello, I recently purchased a Magni 3 and Modi 2 and they sound like Schiit. Can someone help me make them sound better?

As it’s my March break, I had the chance to troll the deep, murky waters of headfi dot org. I had some extra beer money, so I bought the Modi Multibit over its cheaper version (the Uber). I was advised by the forum not to bother with this format... and I still think I got good advice... but I thought... pshhhh... Multibit > Ethanol (i.e., curious) and picked up the more expensive Modi Multibit. I found a January, 2017 article over there that seems to be well written. I’d like to share it with you: https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/schiit-modi-multibit.21834/ After reading it, I’m pleased with my choice. Meh, I’m pretty sure I’m falling victim to (what my wife in her Theory of Knowledge [ToK] course would call) a confirmation bias. So now, I continue on my merry aural way... Live my life. Try to be civilized on this forum. Drink beer. Work. And wait for my Sennheiser HD6xx to arrive from Massdrop (ETA mid August, 2018). My next toy (in December/18) is going to be a Schiit Loki... Analog tonal control (an equalizer). Hell, yeah. Getting deeper into this silly e-hobby, ...PrometheanCat2...

Hello, I bought the Modi 2 and Magni 3 and from what I've seen it doesn't come with an RCA cable nor a power plug. Can I get a $2 cable from eBay or will that effect the sound quality?

My toys arrived on Thursday! After humming-and-hawing about buying an external sound-card and headphone amplifier, I blew my beer allowance and purchased my first silver boxes from Schiit (...in particular, the Modi Multibit... and the... Magni-3... ). My immediate impressions: The vendor answered my questions about my order in 24 hours or less. Their site is indeed secure. Shipping from Valencia, California (their manufacturing site) to my hometown (Toronto, Ontario) was fast. FedEx International Economy was more than adequate for my shipment. I’m glad I didn’t blow extra cash on rush-shipping. My order cost ~$500 Canadian, including shipping and USD-to-CDN exchange rate. I got hammered with $67 CDN in harmonized sales tax (HST) and tarrifs. Heads up fellow Canadians: FedEx collects the taxes and duties... and it appeared that they wouldn’t release the parcel until it was paid in full (with a credit card). Their shipping crates are robustly designed. Schiits shipping department didn’t skimp on packaging, thus they survived the journey. I set The DAC and amp boxes up by my computer. My discoveries: Cables are not included. No USB, no RCA cables, no TOSlink cable. I expected that issues. What pleased me was how forgiving the Modi and Magni are for cable choices. I dug through my bird’s nest of cables and found excellent connections. The 6ft RCA cable from the Modi-to-the-Magni produced zero interference. I had a USB cable with ferrite beads at each end. Again, no issues between the digital source and the Modi. I trusted LTT postings about avoiding pricey audio cables. The Modi-Multibit DAC box was immediately recognized by my HP-Compaq desktop (running Win7pro, 64-bit). And that was with the box de-energized! took the vendor’s advice, and did NOT update the drivers (if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it). I had to be patient with the Modi (DAC), it took about a minute to detect the digital signal from the PC. But it worked, out of the box, the first time. These silver boxes get WARM. I expected that (based on the excellent comments on this forum). What suprised me was how they COOLED DOWN when a load was applied to them. Once I disabled RealTec and other sound settings in the OS’s control panel, and made the Modi Multibit the default audio-output, it just worked. I took my silver boxes to a dinner party last night for nerdy show-and-tell. There was a semi-retired sound engineer in attendance. He was fascinated with the little silver boxes. Mister Engineer dragged the Modi, the Magni, and me downstairs into his lair.... and plugged them into his DAW {...something called a Digital Audio Workstation}. Response? Stay tuned...

I need a little bit of advice. I was looking to buy an AMP and DAC for my Audio Technica m50x and I don't wanna spend a lot. So after a bit of research, I narrowed down my options to these: 1) The Fiio E10K AMP/DAC 2) Schiit Magni + Modi Before you say that the Schiit combo is better, hear me out. I'll be using it with an m50x and I do not plan on upgrading my headphones to a better one or a higher impedance one in at least an year or so. Also, I would like to save as much as possible now so that in future I can spend it behind a better headphone. So, with that in mind, will it be worth getting the Schiit Stack over the E10K? Will there be a noticeable difference in sound with the m50x? What I mean is, will it be worth spending US $200 on the Schiit combo, or will get a similar audio experience with the E10K for just US $75. Also, another option I found was the Schiit Fulla 3, which is also and DAC/AMP combo like the E10K but I could not find it in my country. And of course, if you have a better recommendation than the aforementioned options, please do mention them. I'll see if they are available in my country. Thanks!

Okay so i just purchased the Valhalla on eBay for a great price but now i have to buy a dac as well and i was planning on buying the modi 2 but am now unsure with that will work and sound fine with an amp that is much nicer and is supposed to be paired with the bitfrost. Before purchasing the modi i just wanted to double check and ensure that it will sound good and work with no problems with used with the Valhalla amp. Thanks a lot everyone!

Alright so i found these two amps but i don't know which has a better sound. I don't mind buying a cheap pair of tube to replace the stock ones one the hifiman as i have read that the stock ones arnt great. Also if i go the schiit route do i have to get the dac with it as well because that with the amp would set the price considerably higher than the hifiman even with $30 tubes. Thanks for the help!

I just bought Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO 250ohm headphones and I already own a Blue Yeti microphone and I was wondering if I would actually hear any improvement if I bought a discrete Amp and DAC such as the Magni and Modi from Schiit or the Objective 2 amp and odac or if the Amp/DAC in the Blue Yeti is decent. I've seen a few posts on Reddit saying that it was pretty decent but I'm not sure.

NCIX: N/A Amazon: http://georiot.co/3lLc The Schiit Stack, which includes both the Magni and Modi is an extremely popular headphone amp & DAC combination that I committed to test when a viewer asked me about them.

I've been thinking about getting rid of my current full-size receiver that I've been using as a headphone amp. What is the best choice quality-wise between Magni and Modi or an internal soundcard? Source is obviously my PC, and usage is mostly music, but also movies and gaming. These are a few soundcards that are on the same price bracket as the Schiit equipment: Asus Xonar D2X Asus Xonar Essence ST Asus Xonar Essence STX These soundcards would be a little less expensive, since the schiit will have to be shipped from the US all the way to Finland.