Schiit Audio Mimir DAC, EQ & Preamp

An affordable balanced DAC with our Schiit's own Mesh™ digital conversion, that’s also a full preamp and EQ via Forkbeard™? And it’s made in the USA? Yes. Welcome to Mimir, maybe the first truly new thing in DACs in, like, ever.

 

All of Schiit's True Multibit or Multiform DACs have used our own proprietary digital filter, developed through decades of R&D. Now, Mesh brings this unique digital filter to a much more affordable price point, by meshing (ahem) a 32-bit Microchip processor with a standard delta-sigma modulator. The result? Something that sounds a lot more like Schiit's more expensive DACs.

 

Want even more than the best inexpensive DAC on the planet? Make it a full digital preamp with parametric EQ! Plug in a Forkbeard module, and you’ll instantly have remote volume, balance, a 3-band parametric EQ, Loudness, digital filter switching (Mesh and NOS), absolute phase invert, and input select. 

Mimir also includes a Unison 384™ USB input and unique Linear Override power supply, so you can run off the USB input for convenience—or plug in our external AC wall-wart to convert to a linear power supply with much higher voltage rails (and higher output).

 

Add Mimir to Gjallarhorn F, Vidar 2F, or any other Forkbeard-enabled amp, and you have everything you need for an all-digital system, no preamp or EQ needed. Or, add a Saga 2 for ultimate relay-ladder volume control. Or, pair with Jotunheim, Lyr, or Midgard for an exceptional headphone system.

 

By “designed and built in the USA," this is what we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Mimir—chassis, boards, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the US. Our chassis are made in California. Schiit PCBs are made in California or Utah, and it all comes together in our Corpus Christi facility.