[AudioGal]

What?!? Nooo!!! Omg can 2020 get any worse?

DO. NOT. TEMPT. THE. UNIVERSE. It just might say "here, hold my beer".

 

[tincanear]

on a positive note, Asgard 3's seem to be shipping again (at least starting to clear the backorders)

 

[A Jedi]

Omg can 2020 get any worse?

I'm waiting on the aliens to arrive and enslave us. Given our ability to handle crises, this shouldn't take more than 4 minutes.

 

[CarlosAudio51]

on a positive note, Asgard 3's seem to be shipping again (at least starting to clear the backorders)

Yep, mine shipped last Friday. Gotta thank Schiit for getting parts and production started earlier than expected. I guess I got lucky on the queue order because I didn't order mine till mid Sep.

 

[bcowen]

I'm waiting on the aliens to arrive and enslave us. Given our ability to handle crises, this shouldn't take more than 4 minutes.

LOL!

They're probably waiting on a vaccine, especially after what happened to the Martians a century ago.

 

[Ripper2860]

I'm waiting on the aliens to arrive and enslave us. Given our ability to handle crises, this shouldn't take more than 4 minutes.

I think aliens have pretty much written us off, so we should be safe.

 

[JLoud]

I thought they had already taken over.

 

[tincanear]

I thought they had already taken over.

obviously, the silver ones prefer Abyss headphones.

 

[RickB]

I think aliens have pretty much written us off, so we should be safe.

https://www.theonion.com/aliens-pointedly-ignoring-meti-transmissions-thought-sc-1844986858

 

[A Jedi]

I think aliens have pretty much written us off,

That's unfortunate. I was hoping they'd put us out of misery lol. Aliens if you're listening, I'm on your side. Will help enslave humanity. All I ask for in return is being spared from probes up you-know-what.

 

[ev666il]

EDIT: average what Homer Simpson? Can’t quite get the word there.

 

[cricket]

 

[bboris77]

@Jason Stoddard, I recently contacted your customer support to see if they had any info about whether any of your DACs would support the upcoming PlayStation 5. They told me they were not sure as none of your current DACs work with the PS4 over USB. The last one that did was the Fulla 2. The reason is that the PS4 only supports the ancient UAC1 protocol and simply refuses to connect to any UAC2 DACs.

As you know, Sony decided to eliminate the optical output on the PS5 which leaves USB as the only option for DAC manufacturers. A few headset manufacturers have announced that their products will work with the PS5 over USB, but no DAC manufacturers have said so. This leaves a lot of people who use their own headphone and speaker amps in limbo.

Would you consider offering a custom firmware version of any of your DACs if it turns out that the PS5 only supports the UAC1 protocol?

There is a very significant number of audio enthusiasts that also game on consoles and it would be a shame if we had to resort to using notoriously unreliable and quality-reducing HDMI audio splitters to get the signal to our DACs.

 

[Zojokkeli]

@Jason Stoddard, I recently contacted your customer support to see if they had any info about whether any of your DACs would support the upcoming PlayStation 5. They told me they were not sure as none of your current DACs work with the PS4 over USB. The last one that did was the Fulla 2. The reason is that the PS4 only supports the ancient UAC1 protocol and simply refuses to connect to any UAC2 DACs.

As you know, Sony decided to eliminate the optical output on the PS5 which leaves USB as the only option for DAC manufacturers. A few headset manufacturers have announced that their products will work with the PS5 over USB, but no DAC manufacturers have said so. This leaves a lot of people who use their own headphone and speaker amps in limbo.

Would you consider offering a custom firmware version of any of your DACs if it turns out that the PS5 only supports the UAC1 protocol?

There is a very significant number of audio enthusiasts that also game on consoles and it would be a shame if we had to resort to using notoriously unreliable and quality-reducing HDMI audio splitters to get the signal to our DACs.

I had my old Bifrost connected to my television via optical, that way you get all your sounds through the Bifrost. I recommend doing that instead of splitters and such. No complaints about audio quality.

 

[bboris77]

I had my old Bifrost connected to my television via optical, that way you get all your sounds through the Bifrost. I recommend doing that instead of splitters and such. No complaints about audio quality.

That is a good workaround except my monitor does not have an optical out. It has a headphone/speaker out which is functional but has a high noise floor.

Your approach works, but your TV still has to split the HDMI audio before spitting it out via optical. It is probably way better than those no-name HDMI audio splitters, but probably not as jitter-free as a direct USB connection to a DAC. I know we are splitting hairs here, but that’s what these forums are for.