Schiit Asgard 3 Headphone / Pre-Amplifier

Low-price high value is the best way to describe Schiit’s philosophy. And when you consider that it’s built in America, you can’t really argue. The Asgard 3 is an extremely affordable high quality headphone amplifier that can also act as a basic pre-amplifier. It is in good condition and comes with manual, mains cable and our usual 3 month warranty.
Schiit say….
Asgard 3 is a highly powerful, highly affordable, modular headphone amp and preamp that gives you a complete, single-box solution 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.) Asgard 3 features our unique Continuity™ topology that extends the benefits of Class A output, and accepts all the same modules as Jotunheim and Lyr 3.
Asgard 3’s all-new Continuity output stage delivers 3.5W into 32 ohms – a whopping 3.5X more than any previous Asgard – while also running 500mW of Class A bias. What this means is you have tons of power for virtually any headphone – and, since full power is delivered to the ¼” jack, you don’t need balanced headphone cables to take advantage of it. At the same time, Asgard 3’s low noise floor means you are ready for the most sensitive IEMs.
Select from the internal card or rear-panel analogue input, and pick high or low gain with convenient front switches. Connect the preamp output to your powered monitors for a complete desktop system – or use it as a front end to your speaker power amplifier. Asgard 3 provides all the flexibility you need.
By “designed and built in California” this is what we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Asgard 3 – 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.
Specifications:
Frequency Response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz, – 0.1 dB, 2 Hz – 400 kHz, – 3 dB
Maximum Power: 16 ohms: 5 W; 32 ohms: 3.5 W; 50 ohms: 2.5 W; 300 ohms: 600 mW; 600 ohms: 300 mW
Total Harmonic Distortion: Less than 0.002%, 20 Hz – 20 kHz, at 1 V RMS
IMD: Less than 0.002%, CCIF at 1 V RMS
Signal to Noise Ratio: More than 115 dB, unweighted
Crosstalk: Less than – 82 dB, 20 Hz – 20 kHz, 300 ohm load
Output Impedance: Less than 0.2 ohms
Input Impedance: 22 kOhms
Gain: High = 6 (15.6 dB) or Low = 1 (0 dB), via rear switch
Power Supply: Internal 48 VA power transformer
Power Consumption: 30 W
Dimensions: 230 (W) x 155 (D) x 50 (H) mm
Weight: 2.3 kg