Product Comparison: Schiit Asgard 3 vs Schiit Magni 3
General Specifications
Brand
Schiit
Schiit
Model
Asgard 3
Magni 3
Origin
USA
USA
About the Product
Asgard 3 is a powerful, affordable, modular headphone amp and preamp for all your desktop needs. It's a re-thinking of the headphone amp that started it all (for Schiit, anyway—the original Asgard, introduced in June 2010, was our first product.)
Go ahead. Compare the third-generation Magni to anything out there at its price. We think you’ll find there’s really no competition. This is no “starter amp.” Magni 3 has the power, performance, resolution, and versatility to meet all your needs.
Key Specs
Built-in DAC
AKM AK4490
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Sample Resolution/Rate
32-bit / 768kHz
24-bit / 192kHz
Signal/Noise Ratio
115 dB
108 dB
What customers say about "Key Specs"
Schiit Asgard 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- Huge powerful DAC - the Asgard 3 will drive just about anything.
- The Asgard 3 offers an incredible amount of resolution and refinement for such an affordable price.
- Asgard 3 is almost sure to be a really nice amp is quite a palatable price.
- It’s pretty much unheard of to make a newer, better featured, equally high quality product and then charge less for it than the product it replaces.
- Sometimes, actually, alot-a-times if you listen to a lot of poorly mastered music, you probably won't like what you hear.
Schiit Magni 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- I have paid way more for headphone amps in the past that don't sound this good.
- Fantastic product, I reccomend Schiit to anyone who wants top end audio through headphones of audiophile quality.
- This amp has Incredible sound. As audiophile I highly recommend this.
- I'm using this amplifier to amplify audio from TV to stream audio via bluetooth streamer to my hearing aids and it works wonderfully well.
- This is the best headphone amp short of spending hundreds more, and I would say even at that, this still competes.
Size & Weight
Color
Silver
Silver
Height
2 in.
1.26 in.
Width
9 in.
5 in.
Depth
6 in.
3.5 in.
Weight
80.07 oz.
15.87 oz.
What customers say about "Size & Weight"
Schiit Asgard 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- Tiny and nice unit. Also it's very quiet - virtually no self-noise.
- I do love to see Schiit keeping up their amazing local design and production. As always the device is amazingly looking and tiny.
- It's well made, takes a small space in my apartment. Looks good as well.
- Asgard 3 really seems to measure pretty well. Good sized device.
- Great builded little DAC that going to increase sound quality for my headphones.
Schiit Magni 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- Sound quality is impeccable. It feels well built. Compared to other amps this one is a lot smaller.
- I am sure this little unit will be helping me hear my beautiful records in my headphones for many years.
- I love this thing. It is made from a solid aluminum chassis with solid feeling switches and volume knob. Other side the device is not even close to be big.
- What a nice little product. It sounds great, powers my Beyerdynamic DT 770 pro.
- The problem with this amp is the power brick, it's too big to use. It will block any surge protector.
Features
Enclosure Material
Aluminium
Aluminium
Max. Frequency Response
20 kHz
20 kHz
Min. Frequency Response
20 Hz
20 Hz
Controls
Volume knob, Gain, Input Selector, Power On / Off
Volume knob, Gain, Power On / Off
OS Compatibility
Apple OS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple iOS, Android
Apple OS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple iOS, Android
Wireless Connection
No
No
Interfaces
Phones, Analog Stereo RCA, Pre Output
Analog Stereo RCA, Phones, Pre Output
Extras
Powerful class A headphone amp, Low noise floor to accommodate IEMs, Customize to Specific Needs
Built-in time-delayed start-up and instant shut-down, Low distortion
What customers say about "Features"
Schiit Asgard 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- Big soundstage with lots of detail. Great performance.
- Continuity addresses some of the major drawbacks of Class-A amps.
- Been listening to it for the past couple of hours. It sounds it's best on High Gain.
- Low gain setting is just there as a extra feature that should only be used when its necessary, like when using extremely sensitive headphones with the amp.
- Chassis can become very hot on the bottom of the device.
Schiit Magni 3 Headphone Amp and Preamp
- The sound for the headphone outputs and preamp outputs are the same neutral no distortion no noise and plenty of power.
- Simply put, excellent feel, excellent sound, excelent company. A safe purchase. I would recommend to both headphone users and speaker users that want a solid preamp output.
- Two minute hookup and Voila, it works. No distortion even at highest levels.
- It has quite a low noise floor so you're getting what the artist wanted you to hear without coloration or distortion.
- The problem is the smallish volume knob is right next to the headphone jack which blocks its use.
Warranty / Certifications
Manufacturer Warranty
3 year(s)
2 year(s)
Certifications
CE
CE
Other Information
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