[耳機撚]召集大耳牛、枱式耳機系統用家(103)

Then is there a good reason why this is Asgard X, other than you being irritating cusses?
Yes. The design that became Asgard X was a huge departure from Asgard 3. It also was our shot at trying to replicate a lot of the sonic qualities of Mjolnir 3, but without the insane heat and desk-hogging size. Hence, it was eXperimental. Hence Asgard X. The earliest versions of this design have always had this name screened on them, and it stuck.

What does Asgard X share with Mjolnir 3?
The gain topology is basically the same—heck, Asgard X pretty much uses the same parts and same layout as Mjolnir 3. That means, like Mjolnir 3, it’s a zero-feedback design. It also has the same kind of high-voltage, discrete-regulated power supply as Mjolnir 3. But it doesn’t have chokes (no space), and it doesn’t have Mjolnir 3’s single-ended, current-source-biased Class A output stage. Instead, we chose to develop something new—Continuity A, a variation of Continuity that focuses on keeping both NPN and PNP devices conducting all the time, on both positive and negative rails of the supply.

So does this sound like a Mjolnir 3?
In many ways, yes. It’s as close as we could get, after 5 iterations that included current-sourced Class A, standard Continuity, push-pull conventional Class A, and sliding bias schemes.