What if we 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: LF 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 we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Stjarna—chassis, boards, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the USA. Our chassis, boards, and transformers come from California, and it all comes together in our San Antonio, Texas facility.

5-Year Warranty, 15-Day Returns

Stjarna’s warranty that covers parts and labor for 5 years. One exception: the tubes. Those we cover for 3 months. And, if you don’t like Stjarna, you can send it back for a refund, minus 5% restocking fee, within 15 days of receiving it.