The (now getting-to-be-standard) weekly update: 1. WE HAVE A BUILDING in San Antonio! Now the big move starts. As a reminder, we are staying in Corpus Christi as well. If you're interested in where we'll be, it's near UTSA, off De Zavala. Really good location for us. 2. Still looking good for...

It's a dedicated tube phono preamp.

You have nooooooooooo idea.

Mono is in on Stjarna. I still think it is a beyond-edge-case. None of the phono aficionados at Schiit think it's important, and some of them go very very deep. We mocked it up today, went out and bought mono records, tried it out...end result was pretty much shrugs all around. This is stereo...

Basically Aegir. Now looks like next week.

Proceeding to qualifying prototypes. No timeline yet. This year is possible. Make a case for mono, now is the time.

Not down for the count...just waiting for additional processing power for higher rates, which is now finally available. In the meantime, we've added a lot more capabilities. You'll see.

In this case, drums. He also produces. In a Boerne shop:

Also looks like our head of QC, who is a quite accomplished musician in LA, is coming to San Antonio...

For an actual update: 1. Kraken maybe next week. We'll see. 2. Saga 2 is being a weiner. It may be more like a month out. I'll get a new chapter up in any case this week...just general fun stuff about businesses. Se #2 above and repeat, "There will always be pain. But it will be OK."

LOL, yeah that tracks. One of our guys, I believe Evan, actually got fed by the DMV when he came in because they were having a pot luck or something. Oh and Boerne--have you met the guy who has his poodle ride around in his motorcycle sidecar? Oddly enough, Armchair Philosopher, AND a high...

Almost missed National Tortoise Day! Yes, that's Lisa, making medieval-style tile for our house under construction, and Warwick, a random tortoise eating an apple. Typical weekend in Corpus Christi.

Oh that's horrifying. There are probably more than a few alternate universes where there is no Schiit Audio because I tripped and went head-first into our Frankensaw in the speaker days (think 5HP motor, 8' table, no guards, blade usually all the way up). I'm a giant baby now, and use a Dewalt...

Everything is relative. I'm originally from a comparatively hot part of California, where heat ranges from "hot as balls" to "hot as Satan's left testicle" for 4 months out of the year, not the perfect LA weather as portrayed in a lot of screen fantasies. In Texas, it's more like "hot, HaB, or...

I finally ordered a couple of bottles to CC.

A few years back, I had the chance to buy 50,000 of these for about $10,000...should have done it. Argh. Notes to past self: 1. Paint everything 2. Make all 6x9 products 1/2" larger on each side 3. Make all 16x8 products something like 14x9 (less important, but still, while you're at it...) 4...

Now targeting the 30th. See Jason's Law. Better to be perfect than fast, or rich than dead, or here than there, or something like that...crazy times.

Welcome to Texas. Enjoy the, ah, "weather." Edit: last night in Corpus it went from hot and muggy to cool and breezy and dry (Texas style dry, Corpus style breeze--think 20-30mph winds) to torrential horizontal rain for about 15 minutes, to an insane sunset and still kinda cool and dry to next...

Not to be pedantic, but being pedantic: it'd be more correct to say "the silent killer of vintage tube gear is filament voltage." Modern gear is much more apt to be designed for current AC line voltages. We take high line into account (5.7V at 110 to 6.5V at 125 typical target), or in some...

Maybe. But not the highest priority, I'm afraid.

Unfortunately, even if it fit, Vali 3 doesn't have the right voltages to run it...it's a very very very minimalistic design. So unfortunately no chance of that happening.

More on topic. Not a comment on the Lyr+. Or maybe it is.

Hey all, The time flies by. Too many things to do right now! Sooooo, a quick update, before I go into Weekend Documentation Hell (long story, you'll read about it this year): 1. You may see Kraken as early as next week. Think "media capability, music quality." Not giant power. I've been using...

Lots of wacky ideas in play. The catch is--we are very far along the performance/value axis. This means that: 1. Many of the wacky ideas are too wacky, and won't work. 2. Multiple prototypes of multiple wacky ideas are required, with listening of different candidates needed to determine...

Okay, I'll bite. You guys are crazy.