Sounds like what we used to call premature death syndrome. Most electronic components which will fail fail early,which is why they are ran in (at production) for a few hours. Sometimes one will hang in long enough to ship to an OEM and then you end up with it. I hope you get a fast and...

Personally I have all my CD collection in FLAC format now. With modern hard drive and sd card sizes there's not much need for lossy compression anymore :)

  You'll be fine with a casing made of wood they're already isolated by thier low conductivity. Unless you run 100,000+ V through them, in which case you have bigger things to worry about! It can be an absolute nightmare to solve. I've been lucky so far with ground loops. Maybe my house is...

Both ways work to fix your humming, and both ways work to make the device potentially unsafe. You don't need to use it any more than you need to turn the oven off when you leave the house or you need to wear a seatbelt. It's entirely your personal choice provided no one else is ever going to...

  It does depend to a degree on where you are due to voltage differences. In the USA you run low voltage so you don't even have a ground pin in your sockets. If your sockets have 3 pins you are running a lethal voltage and you need that ground wire. It's certainly not worth risking killing...

  Oh it's nothing important, it just stops you from killing yourself . It's a grounding cable for the metal chassis. If the case goes live due to a short that cable will cause the current to go through it rather than you. Do not under any circumtances play with that cable unless you...

Yep, welcome to the hifi problem! The better your equipment the more you hear all the tiny imperfections. A perfect track is flawless, but if you have something less than perfect those flaws will punch you in the face.   I'm currently going through a cd and hdtracks buying spree to replace a...

It's not a design flaw it's a design feature. It's a high end device design, which means it makes certain asumption about what you connect it to also properly made. The muting relay is a feature which makes the device better, they had to make a choice between making it operate noislessly no...

Without the drivers there would have been no sound at any point, it's impossible for such a device to operate without a custom driver package. I'm starting to feel like tattooing the words "computer expert" on my head.

Not yet but I will do. To be honest with you I very much doubt it's the bifrost being faulty. I'm making the assumption it's a driver issue or something with the usb port going. I was just hoping maybe someone else has had the problem and it's not me needed to replace my motherboard. The power...

I know, and that would have been done long ago if it were possible. It is not an audio device, it is it's own designated device class which is not and cannot be recognised by windows as a sound device. As I just said I'm a computer expert. I have been building and repairing computers for some...

Already given that a go, but thank you. If there's a a windows based solution I've probably tried it, I'm a fairly advanced computer expert. That's why I ended up postign asking about it, i've done all the normal things to try.   It could be the physical port having issues, the motherboard on...

Thanks for trying :)

      It doesn't make any difference what i do regarding port selection sadly. It can't be my ports being faulty as my other stuff works fine. It's getting a it annoying having to keep fighting with it.   It's not native spdif, it's from a converter. The converter only operates in kernal...

Some 100hours in, I absolutely love my uberfrost.   One issue i'm having, my pc often has trouble finding the usb connection. I use the spdif input for most things, but for youtube and tv etc my spdif converter doesn't work. Has anyone else had trouble with windows not realising it is connected?

  Yeh, I didn't really want to escalate the situation and turn it into a firestorm. I understand the engineering half of it but I know a huge amount less about the human side, it would be ever so foolish to engage in a debate on something I'm not expert in.   To be fair for most purposes...

It doesn't matter if it's at 2khz, 44.1khz or infinty-1 khz, it happens in exactly the same way (so long as the sample frequency is still double the wave frequency). I just chose 1 and 2 khz as nice easy example numbers because trying to imagine a 44.1khz sample on a repeated cycle placed over a...

In that case I'll be even happier after 200 hours :) I wasn't dumping on the idea of burn in, I was just appeasing people so a burn in vs no burn in flame war doesn't start up.

  Not to cause a huge arguement but the nyquist-shannon theory is for the absolute minimum representation of a frequency, not an accurate one. Sampling at exactly double the highest frequency turns a sine wave at that frequency into a triangular saw tooth wave of the same frequency. You need a...

  The ticking is whenever you change sample rate. So if you're running foobar2k or another media player once per album at the most, and only then if the two albums are at different sample rates. Not sure if it does it when you change sample depth only, I don't have any files with the same rate...

Just got my fully kitted out bifrost. I'm very happy with it, even before any burn in (if such a thing exists).  Can't wait for my new little dot MKV to come to pair it with. But even with my c&c BH portable headphone amp it sounds brilliant. Using AKG K702's.   I don't know why people...

Just started using my BH with my new AKG K702's for the first time. I'm amazed at how easily it drives them, and it sounds great. I'm a happy man today :)

They are talking out of thier ****. Again. They just say that like some chant. I kept saying to them that 192kHz isn't correctly supported and they constatly repeated that it plays 24/192. Thier customer service is just one guy at a desk who is senior in the company and makes things up depending...

You may well be right, it was way back when I was considering purchase that I read the detailed review of the previous model and took the information from there (at the time, if not still, there wasn't as precise a review anywhere for this model) so I am going by a distant memory and the...

  I'm not absolutely certain because i'm going by memory, but something is telling me the LF adds 6dB at around 60Hz. But that is based on my memory. I know the centre is in the 40-80Hz range because it's at the same place as my headphones have a response peak (which is why i never use LF).  ...