Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[RickB]

Yggy is something quite different from a DAC

That may be the stupidest iPhone case I've ever seen. They're probably making money hand over fist.

 

[Paladin79]

That would be great, thanks!

One last suggestion on a small rack for Bifrost 2 etc. This is just half inch copper pipe with the ends run through a flaring tool. You can use them with small wooden shelves and have them sit on top of a rod or bolt head or such to hold them in place.

 

[judson_w]

At least with Bifrost 2 they were able to make a clean break. I have not referred to that DAC as "bimby". Also helps that Bifrost 2 is easy to pronounce, and spell.

You do realize Bifrost is not pronounced like "bye frost" but it is closer to "biff - roast". Similar to "beef roast" but softer vowel sound, and the r must be rolled very slightly.

(since this is text and inflections can be hard, yes, this is a joke).

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Then you don't want the Western Electric 396A's? OK...I'll unload those on someone else.
Never even heard of United Electron, honestly. Assume those are some holy grail-ish types?

Made a picture for the specialists.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Now I have a question for the techs here.
Maybe too general but here goes:
Does bi-amping speakers matter?

 

[A Jedi]

Now I have a question for the techs here.
Maybe too general but here goes:
Does bi-amping speakers matter?

If you want/like/need more power then yes.

 

[Ableza]

Now I have a question for the techs here.
Maybe too general but here goes:
Does bi-amping speakers matter?

When maximum dbSPL is required - such as in a live sound setup - it is common, along with active crossovers and other signal processing devices. In home stereo, it is something some enthusiasts like to play around with. In home theater, it is needed for subwoofer/LFE channel.

 

[tafens]

And also names that he, or any other American, don't know hohw to pronounce.

Yggy is something quite different from a DAC

An iPhone case with.. hair?

 

[Paladin79]

Hopefully all is well with @Jason Stoddard and Schiit what with the Saddleride fire affecting operations towards the end of last week.

 

[QueYo]

You do realize Bifrost is not pronounced like "bye frost" but it is closer to "biff - roast". Similar to "beef roast" but softer vowel sound, and the r must be rolled very slightly.

(since this is text and inflections can be hard, yes, this is a joke).

I finally learned how to pronounce Gungnir. I've been tempted to buy a Bifrost2 but I'll just wait for the Unison Gungnir so I don't need to learn to pronounce another name correctly.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

When maximum dbSPL is required - such as in a live sound setup - it is common, along with active crossovers and other signal processing devices. In home stereo, it is something some enthusiasts like to play around with. In home theater, it is needed for subwoofer/LFE channel.

I understand that would it improve the sound quality?

 

[Ableza]

I understand that would it improve the sound quality?

Not necessarily.

 

[AndreYew]

Does bi-amping speakers matter?

It depends on how you do it. As Ableza mentions, if you're using active crossovers, biamping can be pretty great:

- the signal is filtered for each driver before it reaches the amps, so each amp can be smaller since it's being driven by only part of the music signal
- the amps can be connected directly to each driver, so you don't suffer any losses or parasitic effects from crossovers,which can be considerable, so you use less power
- but the speaker has to be designed to be actively amplified, and the active crossovers have to be designed for those speakers

If by biamping, you mean passive biamping, which is driving each crossover section of the speaker through separate binding posts, and is what most audiophiles mean when they say biamping, then there are fewer benefits:

- each amp still has to be pretty big since it's being driven by the full-range musical signal
- each amp sees the part of the speaker crossover for a particular driver, and this could make the amp's job easier since the impedance is probably pretty high outside of that driver's operating range
- if an amp for the bass section clips (which is the most common cause of clipping), it won't send the high-frequency energy into the tweeters, so clipping is less likely to damage your tweeters (this is true for the active biamping case too)

I use an actively amplified speaker system with a 3-way active crossover, and each amp is 60W. 60W is completely overkill for the higher frequency section, so the amp is loafing there, but I have to pair up two of the channels for the bass, so I end up using 4x60W channels per side.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Thank you for the info gentlemen.
I'll stick to mono-amping.

 

[hearditontheX]

Enjoythemusic.com really likes the Lyre 3 and Jotunheim,
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/RMAF_2019/Rochlin/Blue_Note_Awards/.

Hopefully this will lead to more sales for Schiit.