[Licht]

Based on absolutely nothing said, I'd expect it to have USB in.

Ah, USB pass through, that's a good idea!
Then it could be somewhat like digital pre?

edit: pass though --> pass through

 

[Clemmaster]

Ah, USB pass though, that's a good idea!
Then it could be somewhat like digital pre?

And offer Schiit's secret upsampling to go head to head with Chord's M-Scaler (but at 1/5th the price)

 

[johnjen]

Living as I do in Amazon's 'back yard', their corporate and civic behavior is abhorent.
They bankrupt new hires, they squeeze government for 'special treatment', they are draconian in the work place rules and practices.

They are GREED Inc.

And to top it off, look into Bozos (Bezos), it's not pretty.

JJ

 

[tincanear]

I suspect that Schiit has had multiple internal discussions about combining the transport with digital pre, upsampler module, etc., but that creates a never-ending feature set. So they probably decided to limit the feature set: a transport with some read-ahead buffering, at least one pass thru USB input, and perhaps some secret internal expansion slots, so that they can actually freeze the design and make a shippable product.

 

[HK_sends]

Not sure I would use this particular device, but such things exist.
https://plugable.com/products/usb2-switch2/

I have one of those for using a single keyboard and mouse on two computers. Feasibly, it could work feeding a DAC, switching between two sources.

Cheers!
-HK sends

 

[tincanear]

why worry about this USB issue right now? why not wait until the Transport is released, and if necessary took at USB 3.x peripheral switches (those will have higher bandwidth / less latency than the USB 2.0 units)

 

[earnmyturns]

I definitely want this product. I will need the Unison USB on the transport to support a pass through from my music server (Windows 10 laptop) to my Yggdrasil's USB.

At some point, Mike wrote he was exploring the idea of an all-digital preamp, You could imagine multiple digital inputs, including several USB Unison ones, and a good selection of digital outputs.

 

[Balthazar B]

At some point, Mike wrote he was exploring the idea of an all-digital preamp, You could imagine multiple digital inputs, including several USB Unison ones, and a good selection of digital outputs.

Then is Mike also exploring digital power amps?

 

[tincanear]

At some point, Mike wrote he was exploring the idea of an all-digital preamp, You could imagine multiple digital inputs, including several USB Unison ones, and a good selection of digital outputs.

that sounds like a separate device, with 1 ea USB, AES/EBU, toslink, coaxial, plus some additional input module options ( 2x USB or 1 each toslink & coax S/PDIF). remote source selection.

 

[tincanear]

Then is Mike also exploring digital power amps?

digital power amp is something else entirely different. how to do volume control? digital or analog domain?

 

[earnmyturns]

Then is Mike also exploring digital power amps?

Jason wrote once about the possibility of making class D sound decent with exotic fast switching transistors. Is that "digital"?
PS: Sort of joking here, but operating at very fast switching speeds you could get rid of pulse-width modulation and just use a fixed pulse width digital rate code and integration. It's kind of how (most of) our neurons work, anyway...

 

[Mike-WI]

Why would a source device include an input?

Oppo's had inputs

 

[Ableza]

Oppo's had inputs

Oppo has a DAC too.

 

[mr sushi]

Gentlemen,
I'm inviting a hypothetical woman over to my place. The setup includes Source > USB --> Bifrost + Yggy --> two headphone amps. Would you all have any idea how I can output USB from a PC into both DACs so that we can each have our own dac + amp/volume control?
Stereo Mix doesn't seem like a valid solution since it always seems to output into HDMI

 

[tincanear]

Gentlemen,
I'm inviting a hypothetical woman over to my place. The setup includes Source > USB --> Bifrost + Yggy --> two headphone amps. Would you all have any idea how I can output USB from a PC into both DACs so that we can each have our own dac + amp/volume control?
Stereo Mix doesn't seem like a valid solution since it always seems to output into HDMI

why not a 'Y' splitter between output of one DAC feeding both of the headphone amps?

have you tried using a USB hub between PC and the two DACs?
disclaimer: I don't have two USB DACs so have never tried this.