Great - many thanks for that !

One of my most used sections "News" - your official press releases - has vanished entirely. :( I check it to see if anything new had been released, during periods where I do not have time to read all the book chapters.

There is software available that will do that. For example, if you have Jriver Media Center, the DSP page has "Tempo & Pitch". I have not checked, but I am sure there is a free plugin for the foobar2000 free music player that will do the same thing. What Mike stated is the reason for The...

Just my opinion of course, but... I cannot even listen seriously to any other Bruckner symphonies than Haitink. His Concertgebouw recordings on Philips seem to be the only one that understand what Bruckner was writing. Especially in terms of rhythm. YMMV.

My own experience was yet cleaner sound, yet better imaging, and better bass quality. This from memory, since I was unwilling to put the Gen 2 board back into the Bifrost MB in order to go back and forth. :) And I use Windows instead of Mac. All reports from Schiit and others indicate that...

Here ya go

Exactly. Elsewhere on the web, people are being advised to get an Eitr instead of a Gen 5 Upgrade card "because it will work for all your DACs in the future". But either way, the output is no longer USB, so the USB is actually isolated. PS " Layman's " :) "lamens" sound like something that...

I had these Roger Sound Lab speakers they were ridiculously good for the $$ (not my picture). (Anyone ever visit "Slipped Disc Records" - run by Kevin, not far from RSL?)

I did my Gen 5 USB upgrade for Bimby myself. The Gen 5 card is crammed with parts, and is so much larger than the Gen 2 card that it is a non-rectangular shape that fits around various parts that are adjacent to the USB card. In other words, all those USB parts for Gen 5 barely fit into the...

The Schiit USB cables have a couple of advantages for use with Schiit DACs: 1 - They are made for Schiit by "Straight Wire". I did some research a number of years ago on cables, and found that audiophile cables that were only slightly more expensive than generic cables, performed 99+% as well...

@Baldr - I concur with other reviewers on various Forums on the web, that Gen 5 improves the bass quality of the Bimby (cleaner and less woolly, which makes it seem more solid). I would be interested if you happen to have a guess as to why the bass quality is improved?

Throwing this out there for any suggestions... I received my Gen 5 USB upgrade board and installed it without problems. But my Home Theater PC - which worked fine with Gen 2 USB with Wyrd - won't recognize it. The PC is still running Vista. Why? Because I have spend many many hours...

Understood.... but if I had a $ for every OT post in this thread, Yggdrasil would be mine !!

@Baldr - speaking of "...Long Strange Trip..." - be sure not to miss "Long Strange Trip" (on Amazon Video) - excellent !

The context was not "favorite", it was someone expressing a desire to start listening to classical music for the first time. So, lol - no Bartok or Schoenberg !

My hardware install was successful. The tricky aspect is holding various parts while you unscrew or screw them (mentioned once in the Gen 2 install linked above). Schiit clearly has procedures (which they won't tell us about because legally "there are no user serviceable parts inside) - or...

Okay, you've made me go to wikipedia: "HP-35, the world's first scientific pocket calculator was introduced in 1972 by Hewlett-Packard. It used Reverse Polish notation and an LED display." So it was 35 not 25. The guy who had one (I remember his name, but won't repeat it here) told the story...

The USB Gen 5 for Bifrost just arrived. It should be the same process as described with USB Gen 2 in these pictures: http://imgur.com/a/8JEGc

IMHO - the top 4 Classical composers are Bach, Beethoven, Handel and Mozart - who are a level above everyone else. (Yeah, I do like Wagner's RIng and many other composers - just not as much.) Of course, YMMV. (Mozart is a bit of an acquired taste - only after listening to a lot of music do...

I was about to mention the HP-25. In September 1972 (IIRC), I was a freshman in college and one of the other freshmen went out and bought the HP-25 when it was first available (similar to Apple Store fans buying iphones on the first day). I seem to remember $400 or $500 was the price. As far...

The problem in this - and many audiophile vs skeptic discussions - is you are missing the concept of "listening skill". Yeah, "I don't hear anything therefore nobody does". Yeah, I can't run a 4 minute mile or a 10 second 100 yards, so no one can. (Usain Bolt is just clever photoshop, and...

Someone wrote: "If I were in California". lol, someone who has never been to California. :) I live closer to the Schiittr than 90% of Californians (and am qualified for the job, and might even do it just for the fun of it) - but - a 5 hour round trip commute is just too long. The Schiittr is...

I seem to remember Mike saying "several hours, so you might as well just leave it on, so you don't have to wait to listen to music".

IMHO the Reiner/Chicago Scheherazade is the best orchestral recording ever. I've heard a number of releases of it. The original LP goes for many hundreds of $$, but there have been good audiophile label vinyl re-releases. But they did a really good job with the SACD, using the original...

Here is a detailed description of differences in sound during the break-in process of a Schiit Bifrost DAC. I think somewhere in that thread, there is a reference to Jason acknowledging privately that they hear the same differences at Schiit. Many other people hear the same things (including...