Schiit Decrapifier released - USB power isolator

[artur9]

K, listened for an hour last night.
 
As I said the noise floor is much improved.  Previously there was some noise coming from my integrated amp when the volume reached 90 on the dial.  Now I can turn it all the way up to 150 with dead silence.  That of itself will bring in some nice benefits when listening at lower levels.
 
Right after I put in the uLink, I found the sound to seem a little rough but not with loud clicks and pops that one would be conscious of.  Made it less pleasant to listen to and seemed to impart a bit of brightness to the music.  Fatiguing after a little while.
 
With the Wyrd that's gone away.  I kept wanting to finish my test tracks rather than move on the next one, like before-Wyrd.
 
So the Wyrd is a keeper for me.  Although it seems too small to actually contain anything!
 
I'd say the uLink USB is not as good as the USB in the Bifrost because I don't recall these effects through that signal chain.  But I wanted to play laptop-to-receiver and the receiver has no USB input, sadly.
 
Forgot to mention.  Does seem to be one downside.  With the Wyrd the first few notes of music is being dropped.  I need to get to the bottom of that.

 

[sheldaze]

 
Forgot to mention.  Does seem to be one downside.  With the Wyrd the first few notes of music is being dropped.  I need to get to the bottom of that.

That's Wyrd 

 
I have noticed no differences in software/hardware behavior with the Wyrd in the chain. You might try just recycling everything - DAC, Wyrd, computer. I have seen things get out of sync - meaning to disconnect, dependent on the power-on ordering. But once Wyrd and DAC are on, I've not had issues on the computer side.

 

[artur9]

My wife, who has the hearing of a bat, has weighed in.  On the song she had previously commented on as being "too noisy" she now says that the "highs are less fizzy, smoother."
 
So, the Wyrd is definitely a keeper.

 

[oAmadeuso]

My Wyrd just arrived half an hour ago.
Never thought I had a noise issue but already i'm hearing an improvement.
 
Using <I°_°I> by Caravan Palace as a test album because it has a lot of detail in it.
It's taken away some upper harshness and can move volume from 11 to 12 now so I get more bass.
 
Some of it may be in my mind by it's nice to know any noise i'm hearing now is noise i'm supposed to be hearing.

 

[Jimmy101]

Does anyone use iPhone 6s with Wyrd with any success? The Wyrd does not like to connect with my phone. I use Tidal the majority of the time in offline mode so I would like to find a solution for this. Phone to wyrd to Bifrost MB to Lyr2 is the setup

 

[spaceace1014]

Make sure that the Bifrost can actually connect to your phone. My Metrum Musette basically just errors out but when I use the Schiit Fulla through the Wyrd it works fine. The Fulla is advertised to work with the iphone provided its connecting though a powered hub I don't know that the Bifrost is. 

 

[spaceace1014]

A quick google search seems to show that it probably has everything to do with the iphone actually not liking your bifrost. 

 

[CFGamescape]

Yup, you need a powered hub or this thing connected to a portable battery.
 
iPhone > Lightning to USB > powered hub using USB A to B > Bifrost. You can also add the Wyrd to this chain, but it won't do anything about the error you're having as far as I know.

 

[spaceace1014]

The Wyrd is a powered single port hub. My point was that the issue is software related and that the Wyrd is irrelevant to the issue. Put another way the iPhone doesn't have a driver that works with the Bifrost. You will need a DAC that the iPhone does have a compatible driver for like a Fulla. 

 

[sheldaze]

Does anyone use iPhone 6s with Wyrd with any success? The Wyrd does not like to connect with my phone. I use Tidal the majority of the time in offline mode so I would like to find a solution for this. Phone to wyrd to Bifrost MB to Lyr2 is the setup

Do you have the latest version of iOS on your phone?
Are you using specialized software for playback, such as Tidal or Onkyo HiFi?
Is your Bifrost upgraded (from Uber or earlier) or did it come from factory as Multibit? If upgraded, does it have USB gen 2?
 
I can test either USB gen 1 or USB gen 2, but I can only test lightning with my iPhone 6+ running the latest release iOS.

 

[CFGamescape]

  The Wyrd is a powered single port hub. My point was that the issue is software related and that the Wyrd is irrelevant to the issue. Put another way the iPhone doesn't have a driver that works with the Bifrost. You will need a DAC that the iPhone does have a compatible driver for like a Fulla. 

Makes sense, but if the iPhone is connected to the Wyrd first, wouldn't the issue be with the Wyrd, not the Bifrost or whatever DAC is being used?

 

[spaceace1014]

Think of the Wyrd as a cable or better yet a telephone. If you don't speak Japanese and that's all the other guy speaks It doesn't matter that the telephone works. 

 

[spaceace1014]

Alright this is getting a bit off topic but you could go the long way around. You could use airplay to stream music from your iPhone to an airport express which has TOSLINK and requires no driver. Just hook the airport up to the Bifrost using an optical cable and you're in business. 

 

[CFGamescape]

  Think of the Wyrd as a cable or better yet a telephone. If you don't speak Japanese and that's all the other guy speaks It doesn't matter that the telephone works. 

I don't understand this analogy. Ironically, I speak Japanese. LOL.
 
Edit: I understand what you mean. Basically, any hardware recognition would be with the DAC, not the Wyrd. I just found the telephone analogy confusing at first.

 

[Jimmy101]

Latest version of ios, multibit from factory, tidal app. I may have found the problem though. Apple has released a new adapter that supports the 6 and 6s. I will update here when I try the nee one