Raal Requiste SR1a Headphones and Schiit Jotunheim Headphone Amplifier
Schiit built the Jotunheim R for one job: driving RAAL-Requisite SR1a ribbon headphones directly, without the usual speaker amp interface. If you have SR1a or SR1b, this is the dedicated solution and it’s here at a fraction of retail. If you don’t have ribbon headphones, this one isn’t for you — and that’s fine. The person it is for just found their amp.
The SR1a is not a conventional headphone. It does not use a dynamic driver or a planar magnetic membrane. It uses a true ribbon — a pure aluminum conductor suspended in a magnetic field, the same transducer technology found in reference studio monitors and high-end loudspeaker tweeters — across the full frequency range, 30Hz to 30kHz, with open baffles front and back. RAAL calls this Earfield technology: the ribbons are positioned at the ears but radiate like loudspeakers rather than sealing against the head, which is why the staging and imaging behave more like a speaker system than a headphone. The engineering requirement that follows from the ribbon's natural impedance — 0.018 ohms, effectively a dead short — means the SR1a cannot be driven by a headphone amplifier. It requires a loudspeaker amplifier, 50 to 150 watts, connected through the included impedance-matching interface box that brings the apparent load up to a workable 6 ohms. That's not a compromise. It's what allows a ribbon this size to receive real current and do what it does at the ear. Carbon fiber baffles, stainless spring steel headband, lambskin ear cushions.
$3,999 MSRP & $3,499 MSRP
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Schiit built the Jotunheim R for one job: driving RAAL-Requisite SR1a ribbon headphones directly, without the usual speaker amp interface. If you have SR1a or SR1b, this is the dedicated solution and it’s here at a fraction of retail. If you don’t have ribbon headphones, this one isn’t for you — and that’s fine. The person it is for just found their amp.
The SR1a is not a conventional headphone. It does not use a dynamic driver or a planar magnetic membrane. It uses a true ribbon — a pure aluminum conductor suspended in a magnetic field, the same transducer technology found in reference studio monitors and high-end loudspeaker tweeters — across the full frequency range, 30Hz to 30kHz, with open baffles front and back. RAAL calls this Earfield technology: the ribbons are positioned at the ears but radiate like loudspeakers rather than sealing against the head, which is why the staging and imaging behave more like a speaker system than a headphone. The engineering requirement that follows from the ribbon's natural impedance — 0.018 ohms, effectively a dead short — means the SR1a cannot be driven by a headphone amplifier. It requires a loudspeaker amplifier, 50 to 150 watts, connected through the included impedance-matching interface box that brings the apparent load up to a workable 6 ohms. That's not a compromise. It's what allows a ribbon this size to receive real current and do what it does at the ear. Carbon fiber baffles, stainless spring steel headband, lambskin ear cushions.
$3,999 MSRP & $3,499 MSRP
7.5/10 - Good condition. Decent wear on headphone but they sound great. Flight case, cables, and headphone amp included.