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Schiit Featured in Fast Company Magazine
09/18/2011
Part of Masters of Design and United States of Design iPad App
9/18/11 Newhall, CA. Schiit Audio is featured in this month’s Fast Company Magazine’s Masters of Design iPad application, “The United States of Design. Featuring products that are both designed and manufactured in the USA, the United States of Design showcases exceptional designs from leading companies.
Fast Company Magazine features the Valhalla headphone amplifier, one of four current Schiit products, including three headphone amplifiers and one standalone DAC.
“We’re thrilled to be included in Fast Company’s United States of Design iPad application,” said Jason Stoddard, Co-Founder of Schiit Audio. “They were fascinated by our design, our made-in-USA philosophy, and by the application of vacuum tubes to audio.”
Jason’s business partner, Mike Moffat, was one of a handful of designers who brought tubes back to audio in the late 1970s, and he feels that this is another step towards more awareness of tubes in audio, and the value of high-end audio in general.
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About Schiit Audio
Founded in June 2010 by audio industry “old dogs” Jason Stoddard and Mike Moffat, Schiit Audio has a simple, if somewhat insane, mission: to bring superior performance, design, and quality to audio products at near-Chinese prices, while manufacturing in the USA.
Jason Stoddard was the former engineering lead at Sumo, designing power amps that included Polaris II, Polaris III, Andromeda III, Ulysses, Ulysses II, The Ten, The Five, as well as preamplifiers including Athena II, Diana, and Artemis, and Sumo’s first digital line: Axiom and Theorem.
Mike Moffat was the founder of Theta, Theta Digital, and Angstrom, and his audio history covers an impressive list of firsts, including the first standalone DAC, the Theta DSPre, the first use of digital signal processing and bit-perfect digital filter algorithms, the first DTS surround processor, and more.