[ScubaMan2017]

Does it have vent holes on top? are they real or for show?
If it doesnt have real vent holes on top you could likely stack something on it.

My Bifrost 2 (classic) has those odd decorative vent holes. I stack my Asgard 2 on top of it. Now, THAT (and my Valhalla 2) gets toasty warm.

 

[ScubaMan2017]

No one's asking an interesting ? on the transport... Will it have a cute little-tikes training-wheel dac (analog outs) OR be a pure digital transport?

Interesting musing! I'm curious about whether this new device will have other circuitry baked in (the GADGET, Loki Maxi EQ, Unison[?]). I'm kitted out with 3 different possible digital sources: Chromebook, iDevice, and Windows10. If I include my XBox1 console (and its 25ft, 7.6m [hey, it works] TOSLINK to my Bifrost)... I have 4 possible digital sources.

My lusterous, silver platters (discs) in storage. Whatever Schiit's cooking up at their CA or UT campuses... it will need to be odd enough for me to crack the open and let them spin.

...or for me to resume frequenting thrift shops for CD, DVD, SCAD, or ...?....

 

[ScubaMan2017]

Aaaand...it's shipped! (Well, a shipping label has been created)

I think you'll be happy with this multibit device. Get prepared for all the fascinating clicking from its relay (totally normal... no magic blue smoke).

 

[Ableza]

Interesting musing! I'm curious about whether this new device will have other circuitry baked in (the GADGET, Loki Maxi EQ, Unison[?]). I'm kitted out with 3 different possible digital sources: Chromebook, iDevice, and Windows10. If I include my XBox1 console (and its 25ft, 7.6m [hey, it works] TOSLINK to my Bifrost)... I have 4 possible digital sources.

My lusterous, silver platters (discs) in storage. Whatever Schiit's cooking up at their CA or UT campuses... it will need to be odd enough for me to crack the open and let them spin.

...or for me to resume frequenting thrift shops for CD, DVD, SCAD, or ...?....

Both Mike and Jason had stated redbook CD only.

 

[artur9]

Interesting musing! I'm curious about whether this new device will have other circuitry baked in....

I like the idea of it being a digital preamp. Don't think it's in the cards.

How does Schiit feel about digital volume control? DSP?

 

[jkpenrose]

There is no magic, it's just that those little electrons can't jump far.......

Electrons?

I thought it was tiny little musicians?

 

[JamminVMI]

Big Vicious is lots of fun. Unlike it, Arctic Riff it's not on my current "go back to" mental list. Of my recent ECM acquisitions, these also stand out: Arco Iris (Amina Alaoui), Phoenix (Cymin Samawatie & Cymonology), Provenance (Bjorn Meyer), Swallow Tales (John Scofield), Discourses (Jon Balke), The Words and the Days (Enrico Rava).

That Amina Alaoui disc is one of the most beautifully sad albums. Fado is one of those genres that not many have heard of, but it is beautiful and haunting, born in Portugal, and sung by women whose men were either at sea or had perished there. Please let me know what you think. Another gem in that genre is Ramana Vieira’s ’Lagrimas de Rainha’.

 

[JamminVMI]

Dude, you ain't gonna believe the stuff I'm about to tell you. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are gonna blow your mind!

Those are merely the cables of invisibility <sniff>

 

[earnmyturns]

That Amina Alaoui disc is one of the most beautifully sad albums. Fado is one of those genres that not many have heard of, but it is beautiful and haunting, born in Portugal, and sung by women whose men were either at sea or had perished there. Please let me know what you think. Another gem in that genre is Ramana Vieira’s ’Lagrimas de Rainha’.

I recommended that album for a reason. I was born and raised in Portugal before leaving to the UK and then the US. Fado and the Portuguese guitar it relies on are deeply based on the music of Al-Andalus, the Muslim kingdoms that ruled much of the Iberian Peninsula for seven centuries. That's why the album hangs together so well, there's a wonderful continuum between North African, Portuguese, Spanish, and Sephardic music and poetry. Jordi Savall has also explored that territory often, for example in Granada 1013-1526. Or Romina Basso in Voces de Sefarad. For a great history of how it all came about, I love María Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World. (I just found out there was a PBS special based on the book, available on iTunes or Amazon, planning to check it out).

 

[JamminVMI]

I recommended that album for a reason. I was born and raised in Portugal before leaving to the UK and then the US. Fado and the Portuguese guitar it relies on are deeply based on the music of Al-Andalus, the Muslim kingdoms that ruled much of the Iberian Peninsula for seven centuries. That's why the album hangs together so well, there's a wonderful continuum between North African, Portuguese, Spanish, and Sephardic music and poetry. Jordi Savall has also explored that territory often, for example in Granada 1013-1526. Or Romina Basso in Voces de Sefarad. For a great history of how it all came about, I love María Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World. (I just found out there was a PBS special based on the book, available on iTunes or Amazon, planning to check it out).

Ty! There’s a book in my future (And a PBS special). Muito Obrigado.

 

[Timster]

Now, what if he can't read? (which is entirely possible because maybe he skipped reading classes too)

That I can't easily solve.
TL;DR for aircraft, is if the engine craps out, you usually have some time to solve the problem. The time available is directly proportional to your altitude when the Schiit stops the fans.

Best examples I can think of are :
BA9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9) and;
Air Canada 143 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider)

 

[Timster]

For a while I owned and flew a Pitts S1S. There is a pocket behind the throttle. In the pocket is a brick. The brick is there so that in the event of an engine failure you can throw it out of the cockpit and it denotes where the plane will land.

Wow! Lucky you... That must have been amazing. Have only had the chance to do aerobatics once in a Decathalon. It was somehting else. A Pitts is a whole other level.
Maybe the glide ratio is not so good though if the brick story is true!

 

[433521]

I agree; however, don't forget that the current Loki's full name is Loki Mini, as given in its manual and in the chapter where Jason describes its creation:

If they didn't like Lokius, they surely won't like Loki Minius.

 

[macdonjh]

I recommended that album for a reason. I was born and raised in Portugal before leaving to the UK and then the US. Fado and the Portuguese guitar it relies on are deeply based on the music of Al-Andalus, the Muslim kingdoms that ruled much of the Iberian Peninsula for seven centuries. That's why the album hangs together so well, there's a wonderful continuum between North African, Portuguese, Spanish, and Sephardic music and poetry. Jordi Savall has also explored that territory often, for example in Granada 1013-1526. Or Romina Basso in Voces de Sefarad. For a great history of how it all came about, I love María Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the World. (I just found out there was a PBS special based on the book, available on iTunes or Amazon, planning to check it out).

Thank you for a couple more leads, @earnmyturns. At this time I only have the MA Recordings issue from Calamus. I like that CD, so I will check out the Jordi Savall and Romina Basso. Just to make @GumbyDammit223 even more impatient, I'll listen to Calamus tonight with my Bifrost I MB...

I keep thinking I'll write something up about my Bifrost, but I like the sound of it so much I haven't had the will to disconnect it so I can hear my Mjolnir "naked" again.

 

[Pietro Cozzi Tinin]

Both Mike and Jason had stated redbook CD only.

Yes, on every other page. So everyone should know by now.