Schiit Audio Gungnir Multibit DAC

1 Person Owner / All original shipping & packaging materials included  / Free shipping to the continental USA

Purchased new in August 2017.  This product has been thoroughly enjoyed in a smoke, pet and child free home.

This item is in perfect working condition. One or two minor blemishes on the finish.

Highlights of the unit are as follows:

Schiit’s own proprietary multibit architecture with closed-form digital filter— as well as the comfort of completely upgradable, modular design.

Gungnir Multibit: Above and Beyond

Choose Gungnir Multibit, and you get the same proprietary closed-form DSP-based digital filter as Yggdrasil, coupled to four precision Analog Devices AD5781BRUZ digital to analog converters for true hardware balancing and 19 effective bits of resolution. The analog section is completed with discrete JFET buffers and summers, the same as Yggdrasil.

Adapticlock™: Unique Clock Analysis and Regeneration

Gungnir multibit includes our proprietary Adapticlock system, which provides for both exceptional jitter performance and rock-solid, glitch-free connectivity. Adapticlock analyzes the incoming signal quality and automatically routes it to the best clock regeneration system—either VCXO or VCO-based. And, it does all of this without altering the bit depth or sample rate of your original music.

Gen 5 USB: USB, Solved

Forget decrapifiers, regenerators, isolators, and all the USB dongles and boxes you’ve been told you need for USB sound. Our all-new Gen 5 USB input doesn’t require any of that stuff. It’s this simple: Gen 5 is USB, solved. Now standard on all our upgradable DACs, Gen 5 USB features full galvanic isolation via transformers, self-power for low noise and latching, and high-quality local clocking for both 44.1 and 48k multiples.

Designed and Assembled in USA

By “designed and assembled in USA" this is what we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Gungnir—chassis, boards, transformers, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the US. Our chassis are made minutes from our facility. Our PCBs are done just over the hill from us, or done in NorCal. Our transformers are also made in California. You get the picture. 

Tech Specs: Gungnir Multibit

D/A Conversion IC: Analog Devices AD5781BRUZ x 4 (2 per channel, hardware balanced configuration)

Digital Filter: proprietary Schiit bitperfect closed-form digital filter implemented on Analog Devices SHARC DSP processor

Analog Stages: Fully discrete JFET buffers for balanced output and discrete JFET summing stages for single-ended output, direct coupled throughout

Frequency Response, Analog Stage: 20Hz-20Khz, +/-0.1dB, 1Hz-200KHz, -1dB

Maximum Output: 4.0V RMS (balanced), 2.0V RMS (single-ended)

THD: Less than 0.005%, 20Hz-20KHz, at full output

IMD: <0.004%, CCIR

SNR: > 115dB, referenced to 2V RMS

Inputs: Coaxial RCA SPDIF, BNC SPDIF, Optical SPDIF, USB 

Input Capability: up to 24/192 for all inputs

Input Receiver, SPDIF: AKM 4113

Input Receiver, USB: C-Media CM6631A

Output: One pair XLR balanced and two pairs RCA single-ended

Output Impedance: 75 ohms

Clock Management: Bitperfect clock management at all native sample rates via Adapticlock analysis and VCXO/VCO regeneration

Power supply: two transformers (one for digital supplies, one for analog supplies) with 8 stages of regulation, including separate local supplies for critical digital and analog sections.

Upgradability: Separate, modular USB Input Card and DAC/Analog Cards are snap-in replaceable.

Power Consumption: 20W

Size: 16 x 8.75” x 2.25”

Weight: 11 lbs

Box contains: 

1 Gungnir Multibit DAC

1 Power Cord

1 Owners Manual

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