Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[skraggy1981]

For those of you who don't want to send your DAC in for Gen 5, just wait a bit...we'll have them for self-install eventually. We're just trying to make sure we have enough boards for current production and upgrades in the short term.

Is that going to be something for the solder geeks or just a matter of using the right screwdriver? Really tempted to get that upgrade, not tempted at all to send my Gumby over the big pond...

That aside, congrats on the new Schiit, looks awesome!

 

[connieflyer]

Page finally came up got it ordered, page is not easy to navigate. Thank you

 

[alpovs]

Why no TOSLINK output on Eitr?

 

[JayKay47]

Page finally came up got it ordered, page is not easy to navigate. Thank you

LOL, the page IS easy to navigate...

 

[connieflyer]

what ever

 

[rmoody]

Jason,

Great job on the release today!

Really glad to see the Eitr. That was exactly what I was hoping you were hinting at on one of your posts weeks ago. I'll probably get one after I settle down from the impact my wallet just took.

Just ordered GEN5 USB and multi-bit upgrade for my Gungnir. Bought it used with GEN1 and DS. I stole the GEN2 from my Bifrost post upgrade to MB. My Bifrost is with bigro right now (it's the Bifrost in his pic of his desk), I'll steal it back until the Gungnir is upgraded and put the GEN3 USB back in it.

This is my anniversary present from SWMBO. Yeah, I'm that lucky.

Later, GEN5 USB for the Bifrost I guess .

 

[rmoody]

Is that going to be something for the solder geeks or just a matter of using the right screwdriver? Really tempted to get that upgrade, not tempted at all to send my Gumby over the big pond...

That aside, congrats on the new Schiit, looks awesome!

If it's like the current USB cards, remove screws/nuts, pull the board out, pull the card off, line up the pins on the new card and press. Put it back together. As someone who has swapped USB cards between his Bifrost and Gungnir, the hardest part is the damn LEDs. They are hard to get lined up. After that, just put the screws back in. There was/is a tutorial of it around here somewhere with pictures.

 

[purehifi192]

Why no TOSLINK output on Eitr?

It's in the FAQ on the page. TL;DR, optical isn't as reliable.

 

[alpovs]

It's in the FAQ on the page. TL;DR, optical isn't as reliable.

Thanks. Didn't see it.

 

[belgiangenius]

That would be my preferred way also. The hardest part is probably figuring out how to disassemble the case.

Got the notice that my Yggy was ready to be upgraded. Explained the situation about being in Canada, no original box, etc., etc, to the person at the other end of the email....and she refused to ship the board to do myself. Order cancelled. This sucks.

Edit: I see Jason just mentioned they wil be available for self install eventually. The wait begins.

 

[alpovs]

Got the notice that my Yggy was ready to be upgraded. Explained the situation about being in Canada, no original box, etc., etc, to the person at the other end of the email....and they refused to ship be the board to do myself. Order cancelled.

https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/s...bable-start-up.701900/page-1471#post-13605642

 

[pctazhp]

what ever

They don't understand us Old Geezers

 

[sam6550a]

Would it not matter then if I used a RCA to BNC cable from the Eitr to Gumby BNC IN? Or would RCA to RCA be preferred?

Either connector is fine. The cable should be rg-59 or similar 75 ohm coax, although for lengths of ~1M or less, it really does not matter.

 

[LaurentR]

2017 Chapter 9: Skipping a Generation
Now, the reason we didn’t pursue this kind of isolation on Gen 2 was simple: there weren’t many good options for it. The common isolators used for USB 1.1 speeds did not work with the Gen 2’s USB 2.0 speeds, so there was no “easy” solution.

I was looking for galvanic USB isolation for other reasons (scope probing of USB-power devices) and found the Silanna ICEUSB series has parts that are USB2 compatible. The HifiMeDIY USB2 isolator uses such a part.
This thread over at EEvblog talks about it.

 

[sam6550a]

With gen 5 usb you only have one digital packet type to worry about, very short traces and clocks right there. With a usb spdif device you convert one digital packet to another one, then have to extract the clock from the digital stream, rec-clock, send it out over another connection, another wire, receive it at another connection and let the dac do its thing. Not as simple I suppose.

In case you do not know, clock recovery of USB is more complicated than clock recovery from SPDIF. Both formats require clock recovery/phase locked loop circuits, and clock recovery from SPDIF is easier than from USB, Take all that you read with a box of salt.