[Kremer930]

Three weeks and counting until shipping ...beep... Beep ...beep ...

 

[Misterrogers]

x2 

 

[Kremer930]

I wonder if Skylab will have his Bifrost a couple of weeks before release to enable a review to come out soon after shipping date.

 

[dyl1dyl]

 
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I wonder if Skylab will have his Bifrost a couple of weeks before release to enable a review to come out soon after shipping date.

That would be nice. But I'm gonna wait for the Statement stuff anyway. Will be really happy if the Bifrost sounds great, then the statement stuff will sound unbelievable.

 

[pseudohippy]

I still dont understand this DAC stuff. although Im looking forward to mine. But I hope it sounds like nothing and just converts the music so it sounds like its supposed to, ya know, how it was originally mastered. If it colors the music, either cold or warm or anything else other than it is originally Ill be disappointed. To me a DAC that colors the sound is just plain broken. But yeah, countdown is on baby.

 

[Kremer930]

I think that dacs should be neutral too but they need to retrieve all of the information from the original recording. From my limited experience it comes down to speed of attack on the leading edge of notes(slam), definition and cleaness of sound and imagining space and air between instruments.

 

[Corbet]

Is there ANY way to get quality sound out of a laptop that doesn't have optical out? It's a shame USB can't compare to SPDIF

 

[obazavil]

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Is there ANY way to get quality sound out of a laptop that doesn't have optical out? It's a shame USB can't compare to SPDIF

I'm in the same ship...
 
I wonder how this may work:
1) http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Surround-5.1/M/B0044DEDCA.htm
 
  Is a USB card -> use its toslink -> feed the DAC
 
2) http://us.outletstore.creative.com/Refurbished-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Xtreme-Audio/M/B002ZAYHD4.htm
Is a card express, with digital output
 
 
 
 

 

[MrScary]

I'm in the same ship...
 
I wonder how this may work:
1) http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Surround-5.1/M/B0044DEDCA.htm
 
  Is a USB card -> use its toslink -> feed the DAC
 
2) http://us.outletstore.creative.com/Refurbished-Sound-Blaster-XFi-Xtreme-Audio/M/B002ZAYHD4.htm
Is a card express, with digital output
 
 
 
 

Get either an HTomega claro + or an M-audio 192 forget that creative junk

 

[obazavil]

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Get either an HTomega claro + or an M-audio 192 forget that creative junk

And how I insert that in my laptop?

 

[ninjikiran]

Just use the USB output, its not as inferior as some might make it out to be.  Going from the Halide Bridge to the ESI Juli@ was not a difference imo, the Juli@ supports more output formats though.  But anything with a driver sometimes suffers, which I learned from using any spdif output of a sound card, where any usb implementation has been fairly clean in terms of once in a blue moon issues.  The older 16-bit interfaces on some cheaper dacs do truly suck though.

 

[Corbet]

Has Schiit ever talked about what headphones the use to test their DACs/Amps?

 

[sampson_smith]

Yes, they have. Do check the Schiit site for more tantalizing info!

 

[obazavil]

Yes, they have. Do check the Schiit site for more tantalizing info!

they use dr dre!

 

[Butler]

I've had several ATs, see my profile and didn't like them with tubes.  I would get the Asgard, as they are a good match for low impedance and from what I hear, on the warmer side.   Treble is slightly recessed. Even Jason, at Schiit recommends the Asgard with Grados so I'm sure it will be a good match for ATs.

I found a great 6moons audio review where they use W5k's and also high impedance cans on the Valhalla, and suprisingly they had this to say:

On headphones from my arsenal which post break-in seemed nicely matched, I'd single out the audio-technica W5000, Grado PS-1000 and beyerdynamic T1 in the top tier followed by the Sennheiser HD800 and AKG K-702 on the next. With a 'potentized' iPod for more gain than its analog output provides alone, all could play unreasonably loud. My hierarchy simply puts on the first rung those designs whose innate voicing is on the fuller richer side.For those with headphones like the W5000 and PS-1000 which can go for either Schiit unconditionally, how to choose? For the purest treble, Asgard. For maximal control in the bass, Asgard. For fluidity on poetic long-decay stuff and the most three-D staging, Valhalla. For greatest vocal sex, Valhalla. For 'lesser' sources, Asgard again. These aren't day and night differences but mere shades of gray.

-Via http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schiit/8.html