dBpoweramp is how I roll too. Good gear.

Agreed, you can't beat Bon Scott as Acca Dacca's front man. Even so, Brian Johnson really excelled with B-in-B. Kudos to him for setting his own style and the band for keeping going.

Sounds like a work of art you've got scoped out. Show and tell please when it's done. I sidelined the Vidar and hooked up the ACA mono blocks to the Freya (fed by an HTPC RCA Digital Out to a Modi Multibit) this morning via the balanced inter-connects. Initially, I thought something was wrong...

Your welcome. Kudos to you for all the Coaster Amp work you've done. The run down you set down helped me decide not to try that path just yet. I came to the view that the ACA would be an easier build and for a first timer, I didn't want to set myself up for a fail. Cheers and enjoy the tunes...

Big shout out to @Jason Stoddard - thank you ... massively. I've just cracked a pre-midnight (my time) beer to celebrate completion of my 2nd DIY amp (so I'm in theme with your latest post...

@Jason Stoddard thanks for the clarification. I was aware from Schiit Happens that you'd increased your instrumentation stable but I honestly thought you were planning to keep the data in house. Apologies for the misunderstanding. I think that it's great that you're setting up a standard test...

Simply to make sure that later claims of ignorance can be reviewed against salient facts. I've watched this unfold from the sideline for some time and tried to reconcile the information overload from a generic science perspective. As I've alluded to before the characteristics of good science...

Great work @jude I sent @amirm a follow up PM pointing him to your post. It will be interesting to see how he takes up the challenge.

@Alcophone that rates some serious kudos points right there. :tophat:s off to you. Seriously? I would have thought that this would be pretty straight forward in today's world for an ex M$ VP. I'm not blessed with such credentials just some nifty fingers that got me to...

For info, I've been sent a PM regarding my post by @amirm He claims to have been locked out of this forum and hence cannot respond to this thread. I advised that he should take the issue up with @jude directly and present his case. I provided further detail to @amirm to justify my statements...

@jude thanks for being open and detailed with your methodology. With my (non electrical) engineering background, what goes into good science is transparency of methodology so that anyone else can repeat a piece of empirical work to enable reliable comparison. Another part of good science is...

Oops - my error. I didn't separate my eyes from a post above the one you originally posted. From the looks, you got plenty of useful advice. Cheers .. :wink:

< Numbers add to quote for clarity> 1. I registered with them today. Didn't encounter any real issue. Try here: https://au.mouser.com/MyMouser/CreateAccount.aspx 2. Dunno' - check their website, I'd expect that they'll set out their payment terms somewhere. Somewhere here might be a good place...

Why lay down cash if you've got something that works? You might want to check out another one of the Schiit guides on headphone amps http://www.schiit.com/guides/choosing-a-headamp, select your weapon of choice, hook it up to your existing DAC and listen to the result. If it's not tripping you...

Dunno' ... what does Schiit's guide on the subject say? http://www.schiit.com/guides/choosing-a-dacamp

Of course they could. However, based on my read of Jason's posts, he's not one to simply follow the herd. He's also made it clear that we should not expect anything beyond the coaster for Schiit's DIY line. There has been some talk a good number of pages back from forum members talking up the...

I got the same email and have taken the plunge to try a pair of ACA mono blocks. Now all I need is for Jason to get the coaster amp out on the market, so that I can train up for the bigger job that is due to ship at the end of July.

The digital pre-amp SAK really got my mind contemplating all sorts of possibilities. I'm not sure whether this thought bubble cum brain fart would make sense but it might be cool to include a crossover in there and more than one output. Modularity with some kind of add on / plug in concept...

I'd go for a Schiit 2.1 X-over. I've got a set of bookshelf speakers that needed some low down assistance. The amp I've got on the case is a very simple 2ch unit (ca. the 90s / noughties - Musical Fidelity XA-2). Scoped the market and it was either drop stupid money, go DIY, buy an amp with...

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to the latest coaster instalment. I'm not good with TBCs but then the time between chapters spells hurdles for you and more interesting reading for us. I can work with that.

I'm with you @Rtg97229 In today's world (thanks to the internet) it's not too hard to apply a modicum of rigour fuelled by knowledge that is readily obtainable. To summarise the diatribe below, I can't see alignment between the arbitrary ENOB "measurement" method referred to in @garbulky 's...

I read your dialogue. I thought you were extremely diplomatic and was impressed by your intent to actually be helpful. I also think your summation of where you ended up and your estimation of the views you encountered is a fair assessment. I'd agree with your suspicions of test equipment user...

I'll go looking but can you point me to the detail of what Mike said? I find it telling that JA from Stereophile measured up the Yggdrasil and even though he found some quirks, he sure didn't give it a schiit-canning. From a guy who (after publishing the test results) then referred to the DAC...

On that note, I also like to see in the documentation list reference to test standard / method. All this excitement got me wondering (because audio is not my technical background), what's the standard protocol for doing this sort of stuff? What does it mean? And how should the results be...

Smart plan. I'd be interested in the views from @atomicbob as well.