Quote: That's one of the reasons why I swear to optical.   The setup I have now is the best I have ever tried for gaming, even though I need to use an external Mic. Basically all my sound cards have gone in the bin together with a bunch of headsets.    

Not really. First time I worked under a real employent contract I was 14. Although i started much earlier with the odd task, like selling news papers, baby sit and such. Where I live it's pretty much OK to work as long as your parents endorse it and it doesn't compete with school.

Get a job? :)

  +1   The clean design together with the nice size (it fits perfectly beside my screen) are the reasons I considered the Schiit products in the first place.

  Sàmi is also the name of a people and their language. Incidentally they live in Sweden, Finland and Norway. The name makes me immediately think of joik, reindeer and great fishing in the midnight sun. And souvas...

I had a chance to test the Hugo, and ended up with a completely different setup (spoiler for details).

"Insightful"

  I've put a few teams together, and for me there is a simple truth to this: You don't. You should not even try to prevent the change, and you can only control it by so much.   Every person you add to a team will bring themselves into it and there the whole team will transform. The culture...

I am much the same I think. I don't consider myself an audiophile by any means. I just have two things that constantly bug me. I love good quality, and I really hate buyers remorse.   Making a good buy is hard, often you get sidetracked by a lot of useless stats or irrelevant requirements...

I am in the market for getting a good headphone/dac setup that can be used in stead of a full sized rig. Due to severe space restrictions I am constricted to mostly small-ish or portable dacs/amps and head phones. So far the alternatives have been surprisingly meager. The alternative I have...