New Schiit Loki Mini Plus Review: Analog EQ Knobs of Goodness!

Let’s talk EQ with this new 4-band analog old-school Tone Control from SCHIIT!

Timestamps:
00:00​ - Intro and what are we talking about today?
00:39​ - Let's talk tone control
01:52 - Pricing
02:07​ - Build
02:51 - How stuff works
03:53 - Old Loki Mini vs New Loki Mini
04:34 - Final thoughts
05:08 - Outro

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[vinnylc]

Im old school and loved all my EQs and in my cars it makes such a difference in music experience, i never understood why these things fell off the face of the earth years ago. im glad to see them come back and stick it to these "audiophile purists" that would rather spend $5, 000 on a cable that will do the same job as this with the twist of a knob. If people opened their minds a little and got one of these, the high end headphone industry would collapse overnight. any good quality mid range $400-$600 headphones with an EQ would "brenda" all over a $1500-$3000 set of headphones AND be more genre versatile, WHILE also being able "correct" recording flaws in live music or poor digital copies. EQs for the WIN!

[RonRivet]

Just ordered one to try in my Rega system.

[brazenbull]

I just hooked mine up today and ran it. Get one, the price tag (and potential wait) is totally worth what you hear 😎🚬

[JM-xxub]

Has anyone done an A/B test with the original loki mini? I suspect there
won't be significant differences but would love to hear what people's
experiences are.

[JTB--]

I ordered the Loki Mini+ 3 weeks ago and I'm still waiting on it. Spoke with "Brenda" and she said they're having a hard time getting parts during the pandemic. Might not get my Loki Mini+ for another 3 weeks or maybe longer!! I'm going to chain my Bifrost 2 to the Loki Mini+ to the LYR 3 Tube amp. I recently got into Tube amps and the LYR 3 is pretty spectacular with most headphones of any impedance. I'm actually more interested in the Loki Mini + for tweaking my headphones for gaming like you did in this video... and for movies where you can add a little Bass Boom for some action movie explosions type stuff. I like the idea of the Loki+ to mess around with and tweak headphones using your ears and not needing a PC program to do the EQ. Another cool feature of the Loki Mini+ is the bypass switch where you can go back and forth between the default sound and your new EQ to compare on different songs, games, movies/tv. Could be kinda fun. Keep up the good work! 👍

[fabiocunha]

Hi there. I have my Loki Mini + installed between my turntable and my integrated receiver. Like it very much. Does anyone know of a way to connect to the integrated receiver so I could then equalize other inputs? Like a CD Player, etc...

[bertroost]

I have a Consonance A100 II Super solid state amp. I really like it but it is a bit light in the bass department. I wonder if this Schiit device would be what I need?

[shapedokkan]

Is this an equalizer? I'm new to these sort of stuff so idk a lot lol.

[RonRivet]

I`m currently using it with my cd player. Is there a way that I can connect it to my Rega amp so I can adjust and tweet all my sources?

[mat.b.]

did you find the original Loki had noise?

[ragtop]

I think it's funny how modern "audiophiles" like to complain about analog chains. These types of setups are still very prevalent in professional recording studios. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a small chain like this as long as the components are designed well and use high quality parts.

[notedown]

Do think it would be possible to add a Schiit Loki between an iFi Zen Dac and Zen Can? I know it sounds kind of weird to do but I'm wondering if doing so would result in a lower quality sound or anything of that nature.

[NeoDon]

I am buying this based on your review. Is it possible to have this unit 12 feet away from the AVR it will
be connected to with long RCA cables to control tone from my listening position? Thanks for this video

[RatedBforBold]

“Just grab those knobs and twist and turn them until you are thoroughly satisfied”

So you can say that and not “shit”

[VinylLS.]

Interesting - I'm looking for such an item for the croft integrated amp, but can't find it at amazon. I'm from Germany, there is no german Shop which still have it

[JustinPhillipsScuba]

What are you driving the Kef's with hooked up to your computer?

[reixperimentalist]

Is it possible to use it with adapters between headphone amp and headphones? Or signal probably gets distorted after EQ

[TheHope]

I would prefer schiit put the bypass on the back.

[jamestdouglassjr]

Can this be connected to a traditional receiver like the Sony STRDH190?

[RatedBforBold]

Imagine not having the balls to say shit in a video. I can’t imagine it myself.