The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog

I'm no Norse scholar, but according to this wiki page, it's Hjúki and Bil who follow Máni. Is Jil an alternate spelling for Bil?

 

Hjuki and Bil turns into Jack and Jill.

 

I know little and less of this, but here's from the wiki above:

PS My suspicion is that it would either be the long-announced ADC, or a tube phono stage to go with the impending TT. Pure speculation though.

 

Yeah, saw that. But if this is the reference for the name, why wouldn't they just call it Bil?

 

Maybe it wasn't Norse-sounding enough for Schiit? So to make it more exotic and Norse-sounding, they picked up the English version of the name, misspelled...

After all, Jason is on record that they chose the Norse naming scheme partly because Schiit sounds German, and ye know German and Norse nebulously conflate for 'em Muricans.

 

OK, OK............ I have to acknowledge the great guesses. 200 buck needledrop (or other analog stuff) A/D archiver. As good as many, far better than most. Meet her Friday at the Schiit Show or Schiit Stream.

 

Ok. Squse my ignorance. Me not dumb but....WTF is "needle drop?"

 

The process of recording vinyl into a digital format.. Damn, I just purchased a scarlett 2i2 a month ago to do this exact thing.

 

Once upon a time, music was stored on mostly black flat discs of vinyl call "records". Machines with needles would read the scratches in the grooves and produce said music. They were called "record players" or "turntables". One would simply have to position the arm over the grooves and "drop the needle" in position....

Now be gone with you, back to HF whence you came!!!!

 

Now you'll have to buy a Jil and do it all again in multibit.

 

What's the difference between a needle drop ADC and one for recording mic signals ?

 

Microphones need more gain than line level signals. If you wanted to use this to record yourself, you would need an audio interface or mixer with line level outputs.

 

But then why not add that functionality and make it a general purpose ADC? Why call it an "archiver"? Guess we'll have to wait till friday to find out

 

History showed that Mike and Jason like to build bottom-up, from basic products to flagships. Jason started with Asgard, went through Mjolnir and up to Ragnarok. Then to Vidar. Mike, if memory serves, went first with Bifrost, then Gungnir, then slapped the MB upgrades, then fleshed out the Yggdrasil.

I suspect Jil will be the first in a line of R2R ADCs that will be of increasing cost, performance and complexity.

 

Only if it sells well.

 

Sells well for a product of its type. Pretty much anyone who calls themselves an audiophile will buy a DAC and amp (or combo unit). An ADC for needledrops is a far more niche product, catering only to people who A) Own a turntable, B) Want to digitally archive records, and C) Feel like their vinyl setup is sufficient to make good copies.

 

Maybe. Mike has some skin in the game and a couple of life-long grudges (e.g. the "two lost decades" with the D/S detour). He clearly firmly believes in the accuracy provided by R2R, and no Yggdrasil will ever be complete without an equivalent, RFG and SOTA ADC solution. Like with the Yggdrasil as a decades-late upgrade to the Theta Gen V, and given Schiit's momentum, I would be surprised if Mike didn't come up at one point with an upgrade to his Mobile Fidelity GAIN system...

 

Mike, I'll beat the dead horse again and say pleeeeeeeease do a high quality recording interface/ADC. I know the pro audio market would buy them, and I would be willing to make a schiit CD or album of different music recorded on it to show the capabilities of an end-to-end multibit system. Totally serious.

 

I agree with the general idea, but I think Yggdrasil was the first multibit DAC and the technology tricked down later.

 

Re: an ADC for vinyl ripping (actually 'needledrop' is probably better, it doesn't conjur up images of mutilated Victorian prostitutes)

Could a device record at 24bits and convert bit depth on the fly, outputting 16bit? This would be a nice option.