Schiit Audio
Modi 5
interface_dac
$149
Used market: $90*
Specifications
2 of 9 values have a recorded source- Type
- USB DAC·
- Bus Powered
- yes·
- Max Gain dB
- 0·
- Analog Inputs
- ·
- Analog Outputs
- RCA Line Out·
- Digital Inputs
- USB-C, Optical SPDIF, Coaxial SPDIF·
- Min Usb Power W
- 2.5✓
- Max Sample Rate kHz
- 192·
- Phantom Power Provided
- no·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Headroom Notes
Replaces the Modi+, which Schiit no longer lists. No headphone output at all: it feeds an amplifier, so for the headphone calculator it is a link in the chain and not a source. Worth knowing that its output level depends on how it is powered — 1.5 Vrms on USB, 2.0 Vrms with the linear wall-wart — which is a 2.5 dB difference in everything downstream.
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~60% retained value). · checked on 8/5/2026