Jotunheim 3 Launches

One Amp to Rule Them?

November 12, 2025, San Antonio, TX. Today, Schiit Audio introduced Jotunheim 3, an all-new design providing exceptionally high power for the hardest-to-drive headphones, an extremely low noise floor for IEMs, and the flexibility and control needed for both. Debuting Schiit's fully discrete Prime™ topology with Continuity A™ output stage, the new Jotunheim 3 is the highest-performing Jotunheim ever, while delivering natural and dynamic sound. Jotunheim 3 is available as a standalone amp for $499 and as an all-in-one DAC/amp with the optional Mesh™ DAC card at $649.

"I've called Asgard X a 'mini Mjolnir,' and Valhalla 3 a 'mini Folkvangr', but this new Jotunheim is a mini nothin'," said Jason Stoddard, Schiit Audio’s co-founder. “It delivers high power--6 watts into 32 ohms, 20 volts RMS into higher impedances--and yet has a vanishingly low noise floor though both the balanced and single-ended outputs in low gain mode. So you can really go from the hardest to drive stuff out there to IEMs."

Jotunheim 3 is much more than an update to the 6-year-old Jotunheim 2:

It debuts Prime™, our highly refined, fully discrete, current-feedback topology, which provides exceptional measured performance with only 10dB of overall feedback. It also ensures that the single-ended outputs are as noise-free and high-performance as the balanced outputs, so owners have great flexibility to drive almost anything.
Jot 3 also uses our new Continuity A output stage, running about 2x more current than any previous Jotunheim. This means it stays in Class A much more of the time than the previous design.
We've also added a balanced 4.4mm jack, in addition to the traditional 1/4" single-ended and Neutrik 4-pin balanced connectors.
At the same time, we've increased parts quality overall, including high-performance MELF resistors, silicon and film capacitors, in addition to Jotunheim's traditional RK27114 Alps Blue Velvet potentiometer, Neutrik connectors, and sealed precision relay switching.

Jotunheim 3 is available Mesh DAC card with Forkbeard, which brings additional versatility. Mesh combines Schiit's unique time- and frequency-domain optimized digital filter with a standard delta-sigma modulator, for exceptional performance from an affordable DAC. Forkbeard enables app-based control of a 3-band parametric EQ, balance, volume, Loudness, NOS mode, and phase inversion. The Mesh DAC card also includes Schiit's new high-rate Unison 384 USB input.

Continuity A solves the problem of NPN and PNP device mismatch in complementary Class A designs, by running NPN and PNP devices at the same current at the same time on both positive and negative rails. This approach, together with a massively overbuilt parallel architecture—Jotunheim 3 has 12 individual 3A transistors in its output stage—delivers very high performance.

Jotunheim 3 also has the distinction of being the first product made 100% on Schiit's in-house SMD line in Corpus Christi. Schiit's wholly-owned, captive robotic assembly line gives the company greater control of its production, higher quality and exceptional flexibility for the future.

Jotunheim 3 is available now at Schiit.com.

About Schiit Audio

Since its founding in 2010, Schiit has grown to be the leader in affordable high-end audio, with a broad portfolio of unique analog and digital technologies spanning a wide range of products, from DACs and preamps to power and headphone amps, from $49 to $3499.

Schiit's unique digital technologies include Forkbeard™, the unified control, visualization, and optimization platform; Singular™, Multiform™, True Multibit™, and Mesh™ DACs, using proprietary digital filters based on closed-form math, Unison USB™, a purpose-built UAC2 audio interface based on 32-bit Microchip microprocessors, and Autonomy Architecture™, a modular, upgradable platform to help customers preserve the value of their DAC investment.

Schiit's unique analog architectures include the Nexus™ discrete differential topology, Prime™ high performance discrete current-feedback topology, Continuity™ transconductance-equalizing output stages, Coherence™ DC-coupled hybrid topology, Halo™ mixed-mode motion feedback, and a focus on proprietary, low- or no-feedback, fully discrete, highly linear gain and power stages.

Schiit designs and produces its products in the USA.

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