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SKOLL

£400
VAT already included
In Stock

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MANI 2

MANI 2

£160

Skoll is the highest performance, most flexible, least expensive balanced phono preamp available today. Put it in your system, sit down in your chair, and adjust everything with the included remote control. 

Over the Top Performance

Skoll is insanely quiet and accurate—and it does this with uber-simple, fully discrete, differential Class A zero feedback gain stages and a fully passive RIAA network. Or, in English, there’s not an op-amp in sight. Skoll’s gain stage is compound JFET-BJT pair running on massive 64V rails for enhanced linearity and freedom from overload. The result is over 100dB signal to noise ratio for 40dB of gain, and up to 70dB of gain on tap.

Flexibility Without Penalty

Is your turntable single-ended or balanced? Don’t worry. There’s no performance penalty for either balanced or single-ended input or output. And with four gain levels, it’s ready for virtually any cartridge, from MM to MC to MI. Add relay-switched inputs for two turntables, plus relay-ladder loading for both R and C values, as well as a switchable passive LF filter, and Skoll delivers all the flexibility you need without penalty. We even went so far as to post-filter the relay power supplies and make the microprocessor turn off when not in use, in order to keep Skoll exceptionally noise- and interference-free.

Adjust Everything from Your Listening Chair

Here’s where it gets good. Skoll includes a remote control, so you can adjust literally everything without getting out of your favourite listening chair. As in, you can:
Select input: choose Balanced or SE input
Change gain: choose 40, 50, 60, or 70dB
Change resistive loading: Choose 47k, or 10, 50, 100, or 150 ohms
Change capacitive loading: choose 50, 100, 150, or 200pF
Select LF filter: choose no LF filter, or engage the 2-pole/15 Hz passive network

Designed and Built in Texas

By “designed and built in Texas" this is what Schiit mean: the vast majority of the total production of the Skoll's —chassis, boards, transformers, assembly, etc—stays local. The chassis are made in California. The PCBs are done in Nevada. Yes, the UK wall-warts are made in China, but there's some give and take at this price point. 

2-Year Warranty

Midgard is covered by a limited warranty that covers parts and labour for two years. 

Specs

SPECS THAT MATTER

Gain: enough for all turntables, all cartridges
Noise: insanely low for a turntable, you'll be hearing the pops not the hiss
Distortion: 10-100x lower than any record you'll play
Heat: top gets moderately warm; nothing to worry about.
Size: smaller than a typical rack product, but probably not small enough to hide behind the turntable

OTHER SPECS

Gain: 40db
THD: <0.006%, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
SNR: >102dB, A-weighted, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
Crosstalk: -100dB, 20-20kHz
Sensitivity: 2.85mV for 300mV output at 1kHz

Gain: 50dB
THD: <0.02%, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
SNR: >90dB, A-weighted, ref 4V RMS,2V RMS SE
Crosstalk: -98dB, 20-20kHz
Sensitivity: 0.78mV for 300mV output at 1kHz
 
Gain: 60dB
THD: <0.03%, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
SNR: >85dB, A-weighted, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
Crosstalk: -95dB, 20-20kHz
Sensitivity: 0.34mV for 300mV output at 1kHz
 
Gain: 70dB
THD: <0.06%, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
SNR: >70dB, A-weighted, ref 4V RMS
Crosstalk: -84dB, 20-20kHz
Sensitivity: 0.09mV for 300mV output at 1kHz
 
Maximum Output: 20V RMS balanced, 10V RMS SE
 
Overload Margin: >20dB
 
RIAA Accuracy: +/- 0.15dB, 20-20kHz
 
Low Frequency Filter: switchable 2 pole at 15 Hz, fully passive, for balanced XLR outputs 
 
Output Impedance: 10 ohms
 
Input Loading: 10, 50, 100, 150, and 47k ohms resistive, and 50, 100, 150, or 200pF capacitive, switched via remote or front-panel button
 
Topology: Equipoise™ balanced, differential, fully discrete zero feedback gain stages, passive RIAA, 0.1% thin-film resistors, and 1-2% film capacitors, switchable passive CR LF filter, microprocessor oversight and relay switching, remote control
 
Power Supply: “wall wart” style 24/6VAC transformer, dual-filtered, regulated +45V/-19V rails, plus 5V/3.3V supply for microprocessor and relays
 
Power Consumption: 7W
 
Size: 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.8cm
 
Weight: 907 Grams

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