Just finished hooking up an Uber Bifrost (USB & Analog) that I got new/other off of ebay,
& I sure appreciate all of the info You folx have provided here for us bifrost-curious types.
As a home studio owner, my needs have always been more towards the analytical & transparent components,
as opposed to the musical and colored ones.
The weakest link in my current setup was the monitor/source controller, a behringer product that absolutely sucked.
I was on the fence between the bifrost or the peachtree DAC-ITx, but there are two things I value even more than sonic transparency/accuracy,
& they are dependability & customer service.
I was raised w/out a TV so I actually read all 85 pages of this thread,
& it is pretty apparent to me that Schiit has addressed prettymuch
every issue that has been posted in the front end of this thread.
This speaks volumes to me, as a professional musician that spends more on gear than vehicles.
My unit (revision E printed on the manual) barely gets warm, and the LED is actually one of the dimmest LEDs in My studio.
My gear is powered by furman ar1215 power conditioners (an industry standard in most studios)
& since I work & play from home I will leave this unit on all the time.
I'll post my impressions once I've had some time to adjust to it/burn it in,
but My initial impressions are that I am quite pleased with how revealing it is on My own recordings.
It has brought out many details (some to my dismay) in the highs and mids especially.
I am running it optically from My asus Sabertooth motherboard into an older Woo WA3+ into either
Event Tria 2.1 reference monitors or yamaha p-2200 > Yamaha NS-10m speakers,
or from the Woo headphone out into NOS unmodded AKG K-340 cans.
I listened to my own music, and also some compact discs (through a Buffalo Media Station)
& watched The Fifth Element as well.
-but the real clincher was playing guitar through a Kemper KPA profiling guitar amplifier.
The clarity & detail has improved greatly, to put it mildly.
I have a custom PC with the most powerful GFX card currently out, and it has more fans on it than is reasonable.
(It's in a sound-proof enclosure) so the optical connection won out over the uber usb.
Although I don't subscribe to most snake-oil beliefs, I did actually notice the difference between the uber USB
and the optical input, the optical was slightly quieter, imo.
Again, thanx to everybody that contributed to this and the other half dozen bifrost threadz.