Does this guy ever say something neutral or negative about a product? He seems like he loves everything and everything he has tried is kind of the best in the world. It's extremely annoying and suspicious.

  Isn't it interesting how those 'burn-in' usually flirt dangerously with the return period? :D

I think that you are right that knowledge and technical ability simply don't matter if the person hears or doesn't here something. I nevertheless believe that technical incompetence is often a major bias for people who will be making their choice based on what they read on forums, rather than...

  Actually, while the beginning of the video kind of sounds like it's going to be a long rambling, which is not my cup of tea either, you might want to watch it entirely, at the end of the video the guy makes what I think is a pretty honest assessment. It's just one man's opinion.

The very opposite could be argued about technically incompetent people who have entirely too much money, dropping tons of cash for placebo audio gear, spending hours on forums to convince themselves that they hear a difference :P

Have you considered getting a soekris dac1101 ?

Feels great to see that things are moving in the right direction. Note that I have myself encountered the problem on mac and Linux as well. BTW, I've read your linked post: You mention tweaking, would you mind sharing the settings you have been using while testing rate changes on Linux? Did...

Information as in info on the rate switching bug. I'm talking about being objective about the bug and admitting it is a rather serious one, especially for a DAC selling in the neighborhood of 600, and the fact that it might still be a bargain for a multibit design etc certainly doesn't make the...

Hmmm, I've actually repro'ed the issue on 2 different machines running 2 different OSes. I kinda doubt the issue is not on the Bifrost's side. But you are right that their tech support is excellent and I am sure they are working hard to identify the issue, no doubt about that. I guess I'm just a...

Well, there is no question that Oleg's words have been harsh, not to mention that his limited mastery of the english language has made it hard to understand some of his points, but in all fairness, I think he gets it right that there is a little bit of fanboyism going on here, and more generally...