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STJARNA

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What if schiit combined the best technology of yesterday and today to create a cost-no-object phono preamp? You’d end up with Stjarna…100% tube gain, coupled with dead-quiet power supplies, remote control, and app integration that nobody in the tube era could have imagined.

Tube Gain for All Turntables

Stjarna gives you up to 60dB of pure tube gain, meaning it has enough gain for both moving magnet (MM) and moving coil (MC) cartridges. What’s more, this gain is completely from the tubes. There are no step-up transformers, JFET pre-preamps, hidden op-amps, cascodes, or other sneaky sand. When you’re listening to Stjarna, you’re listening to tubes. Period.

Complete Control with IR or Forkbeard™

Stjarna includes Forkbeard, Schiit’s exclusive multi-product, multi-stack control system. Download the Forkbeard app for complete control and system health visibility. Add additional Forkbeard-enabled products for seamless control. Don’t want to use a phone or tablet? Use the included IR remote instead. 

Select input:choose one of two inputs

Change gain:choose 40, 48, 55, or 60dB

Change resistive loading:Choose 47k, or 10-350 ohms

Change capacitive loading:Choose 50-400pF

Select modes:filter, mono mode, and standby mode

Over-the Top Engineering

Stjarna is completely dual mono back to the AC socket—two transformers, one for each channel, two separate discrete-regulated 200V power supplies, two precision-regulated DC heater supplies. Coupled with insane parts quality, including 0.1% resistors and 1% film capacitors, Stjarna delivers incredible performance.

Flexibility Without Penalty

Connect up to two turntables and use up to 4 gain levels to accommodate virtually any cartridge, from MM to MC to MI. Add relay-ladder loading for both R and C values, as well as a switchable passive LF filter and mono mode, and Stjarna delivers all the flexibility you need without penalty.

Designed and Built in the USA

By “designed and built in the USA,” this is what Schiit mean: the vast majority of the total production of Stjarna—chassis, boards, assembly, chassis, boards, and transformers come from California, and it all comes together in our San Antonio, Texas facility.

5-Year Warranty

Schiit Stjarna is covered by a 5-year limited UK warranty that covers parts and labour.

Specs

SPECS THAT MATTER


Gain: enough for all turntables, all cartridges 

Noise: low for a tube phono preamp, but noiser than any of our other phono preamps—not surprising for a tube phono preamp, and basically it shouldn’t be disturbing if you understand how phono works and what we’re doing here

Distortion: higher than any of our other phono preamps, but at least 10x lower than any record you'll play 

Heat: gets pretty warm; nothing to worry about, we make stuff that runs waaaaaay hotter for years and years 

Size: big rack-sized product, not desk-friendly—display it proudly!

 

OTHER SPECS

 

Gain: 40dB

THD: <0.16%, ref 2V RMS 

SNR: >82dB, A-weighted, ref 2V RMS 

Crosstalk: -100dB, 20-20kHz

Sensitivity: 2.85mV for 300mV output at 1kHz

 

Gain: 48dB

THD: <0.3%, ref 2V RMS 

SNR: >75dB, A-weighted, ref 2V RMS

Crosstalk: -98dB, 20-20kHz

Sensitivity: 0.9mV for 300mV output at 1kHz

 

Gain: 55dB

THD: <0.4%, ref 2V RMS

SNR: >70dB, A-weighted, ref 2V RMS 

Crosstalk: -95dB, 20-20kHz

Sensitivity: 0.6mV for 300mV output at 1kHz

 

Gain: 60dB

THD: <0.6%, ref 2V RMS

SNR: >68dB, A-weighted, ref 2V RMS

Crosstalk: -84dB, 20-20kHz

Sensitivity: 0.34mV for 300mV output at 1kHz

 

Maximum Output: 30V RMS

 

Overload Margin: >20dB

 

RIAA Accuracy: +/- 0.2dB, 20-20kHz

 

Low Frequency Filter: switchable 2 pole at 15 Hz, fully passive

 

Output Impedance: 10 ohms

 

Input Loading: 10-350 ohms and 47k ohms resistive, and 50-400pF capacitive, switched via Forkbeard, IR remote, or front-panel button.

 

Topology: dual mono, pure Class A triode gain, 2 dual triode 6N1P tubes per channel, passive RIAA, with relay gain, LF filter, and mono switching. Tubes can be swapped with 6922/6DJ8 pinout dual triodes with 600mA of heater current or less.

 

Power Supply: dual mono to the AC inlet, discrete CFP regulated high voltage supplies (200V), precision regulated DC heater supply with Schottky regulators and 44,000uF filter capacitance, standby shutdown for both HV and heater supplies.

 

Power Consumption: 35W 

 

Size: 41 x 20 x 5” (body), 41 x 20 x 8” (including feet and typical tubes)

 

Weight: 5 KG

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