I was at the Bay Area HiFiCon meetup in San Jose today, which is a headphone users get-together and listened to a "fully-loaded" Schiit Ragnarok integrated amp, and it was very impressive. The fully loaded Rangarok comes with both a MM phono preamplifier and a true Multibit Unison USB DAC "built-in", two balanced inputs, one RCA line-level input, one RCA phono input, and one USB DAC input.
The build quality and execution were excellent, as well. All this for....$1799. What's not to like?
You can see a young woman, at left, listening to it very contentedly here at the show.
It sounded.... great. Very impressed with it.
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