Schiit Magni Piety: power output and what it will drive

The Schiit Magni Piety is a desktop amplifier at $200. It delivers 1.0 W into 32Ω and 400 mW into 300Ω, which ranks it 81 of 280 for raw power among the sources in this database.

Measured at 100 dB SPL it has comfortable headroom on 565 of the 567 dynamic and planar headphones catalogued here and enough but not generous on 2. Power is published at 16Ω, 32Ω, 50Ω, 300Ω, 600Ω; the rest of the table is derived from those figures. Output noise is not published, so the hiss estimate cannot be run.

The shop listings these figures stand on quote 1.2 W into 16Ω, 1.0 W into 32Ω, 800 mW into 50Ω, 400 mW into 300Ω, 200 mW into 600Ω. The rest of the table is worked out from those.

Derived rows hold output voltage steady, as an amplifier does (method).

One caveat about the source. None of the addresses below is a Schiit document. The figures here stand on Nitsch Sound, a dealer, which is a transcription of the factory table rather than the table itself. A transcription is usually faithful and may well be exact here — but it can carry an old revision, and nothing on this site would notice if it did. Find these numbers on Schiit's own site and send the link; this paragraph comes off.

Source: nitschsound.com.

Easiest to hardest to drive, with headroom at a 100 dB SPL peak.

The manufacturer does not publish an output noise figure for this source, so there is no hiss estimate here. If you have a measured figure, the hiss calculator takes it.

At 0.6Ω output impedance, the one-eighth rule says this source suits headphones of 4.8Ω and above. 1 of the 567 models here falls below that. The one model below that line is the Symphonium Titan, and the mismatch tilts the frequency response audibly rather than subtly.

Check any pair.

Of the 280 sources here, 5 do everything the Schiit Magni Piety does as a headphone output: reach 100 dB on every headphone it reaches and stay inside the one-eighth rule wherever it does. The cheapest of them is the Schiit Magni Heresy at $99, against this one’s $200 — $101 less.

This counts the headphone output only; inputs, converters, the volume control and the build are outside it.

Compared with its closest rivals: vs ART HeadAmp 4 Pro · vs Little Dot MK II · vs Schiit Asgard 3 · vs Schiit Jotunheim 2 · vs Schiit Magni Heresy · vs Schiit Magni Unity · vs Schiit Midgard · vs Schiit Mjolnir 3 · vs Schiit Valhalla 2 · vs Schiit Valhalla 3 · vs Schiit Vali 2+ · vs Topping A30 Pro · vs Topping L50.

Compare any two or match your own headphones. Every Schiit source here.