I have a Schiit Bifrost 2 on the way and I'm trying to read up on what makes its new Unison USB interface so popular. Apart from Schiit's own description on what it actually is I'm having a hard time seeing what makes people so excited for it.
So per their description it's an in-house implementation tailored specifically for delivering PCM and provides electromagnetic isolation. The creators claim it's better than spdif. I guess my question really is, how can a different USB interface provide better quality sound? In my mind it's an interface for delivering bits, 1s and 0s, which may or may not have error correction to a source that then translates it to sound. Regardless of how the interface is implemented the bits coming in should always be the same right? Especially given that it's the same interface used for delivering data in computers where a single bit of difference corrupts the whole file.
So per their description it's an in-house implementation tailored specifically for delivering PCM and provides electromagnetic isolation. The creators claim it's better than spdif. I guess my question really is, how can a different USB interface provide better quality sound? In my mind it's an interface for delivering bits, 1s and 0s, which may or may not have error correction to a source that then translates it to sound. Regardless of how the interface is implemented the bits coming in should always be the same right? Especially given that it's the same interface used for delivering data in computers where a single bit of difference corrupts the whole file.
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