A shorter, didn't come from a printer USB cable fixed the problem for me.

  It's been a while and I've changed things up. I also really need to dust my turntable XD

  The microphonics are my favorite feature in the Vali. I'm confident that it makes my music sound better every time I tap on the chassis. Hey, it puts a smile on my face, not because I'm easily amused or anything...   I'm currently using the SYS to switch between my Bifrost and Mani. It's an...

I bought the Uber Analog and USB Gen 2 upgrades recently and installed them myself. Very easy and straight forward, though I think you're right with the potential of having to send the Bifrost in to be reprogrammed for a multi-bit board upgrade.

Reviving an old thread with a very relevant update. Jason released that there would be a multibit Bifrost upgrade in his blog. Discuss :) Personally I'm excited that they are bringing multibit to their lineup of DACs minus the Modi. Jason's latest chapter in his blog explains alot of their...

  LOL completely appropriate Schiit.

Simple rig but I love it and use it all the time.  

DT990pro is definitely an underrated can and currently my favorite until I can save up for Beyerdynamic's T1 2nd generation. However, since they are refreshing their DT880,770,990 it seems with updated Tesla drivers, I may just hold off for a while longer and see how they compare with the...

Yes! I started with a small Schiit stack and DT990pros myself. The DT990Pros is such an underrated pair of cans. Sounds fantastic with Schiit's tube amp offerings btw ;)

The first rule of Head-Fi is you don't talk about Celine Dion on Head-Fi. The second rule of Head-Fi is YOU DON'T TALK about Celine Dion on Head-Fi.

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Thanks Mike for the insight on phono preamps and your Mani. I also didn't know badger spooge was a thing at one point lol. We've come so far.   To jexby, please don't become one of those evil villians whose sole drive is to exterminate all vinyl. I don't want it to die. Plus think about it...

    The DT990s are really underrated, I haven't tried the 600ohm version yet, but I can't imagine there would be much difference in sound signature.

I have my Mac Mini plugged up to the same power strip my system is on. I guess I could play around with isolating the devices a bit, I dunno.

Yeah I already cleared up the cables and that didn't really make a difference as far as I could tell.

So I have been listening to my turntable setup (see signature) and the only system I've heard that I liked more (subjective "better") was a Auralic Vega > Cavalli Audio Liquid Glass > Mr Speakers Alpha Dogs listening to Creedance Clearwater in DSD format. However, to affirm what Thurston is...

None at all. I played around with the volume on the SYS and I decided to leave it at maximum. I use the volume on my LYR.

Party on Garth :P

I got my Schiit SYS and Mani in today. So I had a house warming party and allowed both my digital and analog friends a chance to get to know one another. They'll be spending some quality time together on this table for as long as I see fit ;)

Indeed, I saw these on twitter and I got the urge again to grab some reference Grados :P

I bet you could reeeeally feel the whomp of a didgeridoo with that setup ;)

It's a nice combination and I enjoy it.  

AK probably submits their players through shock therapy during their burn-in process before they ship them. They'll feed the players a random assortment of music files and send a shock whenever it plays an MP3 or other lossy file. I can see it now... :P

Nah, its just your AK100ii is rejecting the MP3s. Eventually, if you force feed it MP3s enough, it'll stop trying to kill itself and just accept it.

Is your mac connected to the same router that your AK120ii connects to? Make sure both are on the same IP subnet. Also, make sure the firewall on your mac isn't blocking the MQS server application.