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

[Ali-Pacha]

unless you are a company like Sennheiser, or any of the giants like Samsung that cover markets ranging from phones to appliances, shipbuilding to insurance, and everything in between.

"Considering its size" was an obvious axiom of my post 

 
Ali

 

[jsiegel14072]

unless you are a company like Sennheiser, or any of the giants like Samsung that cover markets ranging from phones to appliances, shipbuilding to insurance, and everything in between.

Samsung and Sony are have problems making money on whole divisions!  Might be because they grew so big, they forgot how to prune?

 

[Peaceofmind]

I'll also like to second the recommendation of a Yggy with built in volume control. And I'll like a switch on the back of the chassis to switch between foreign and domestic voltage. One more thing, make larger runs of black chassis Yggys. Just offering suggestions.

 

[kstuart]

  A fair number of folks at CA have expressed a wish for a volume control that would allow Yggy to be used with higher powered amps and speakers without a traditional preamp - essentially a BIG SYS. 

So, you are saying that the existing SYS cannot be used simply because the case is too small ?

 

[judmarc]

  So, you are saying that the existing SYS cannot be used simply because the case is too small ?

 
Folks at CA wanted something that would take advantage of Yggy's balanced configuration.

 

[kstuart]

Aha, not so much a physically bigger SYS, but rather a Balanced SYS.
 
BTW, I am reminded - from looking at the SYS board, there does not appear to any devices.
 
So, is there any reason that it could not be used in the other direction?   Meaning to switch an existing DAC between two different amps?   Typically that would be headphone amp and speaker amp when they are both used in the same room.

 

[FrivolsListener]

  Aha, not so much a physically bigger SYS, but rather a Balanced SYS.
 
BTW, I am reminded - from looking at the SYS board, there does not appear to any devices.
 
So, is there any reason that it could not be used in the other direction?   Meaning to switch an existing DAC between two different amps?   Typically that would be headphone amp and speaker amp when they are both used in the same room.

 
Niles Audio made such a box, a passive switch.  I have one.
 
Truth be told, lots of people did, but Niles made theirs good enough to not pick up any hum or other noise.
 
As for SYS, it'll work the same, if you keep the volume set at maximum.

 

[bigro]

A Bigger SYS with Remote Volume Control  Balanced and Unbalanced Inputs and Outputs (Inputs Possibly Switched Via Remote as well) ??? You Guys Are nuts. Sign Me Up. I may just Buy that Faster Than The Bifrost Multi Bit and I Ordered the Bimby within hours of its release.

 

[gevorg]

Why not digital volume control instead? If Yggy converts everything to 32 bit internally, isn't there plenty of room for "lossless" digital volume control before digital attenuation reaches Yggy's 21 ENOB.

 

[kstuart]

 

  Aha, not so much a physically bigger SYS, but rather a Balanced SYS.
 
BTW, I am reminded - from looking at the SYS board, there does not appear to any devices.
 
So, is there any reason that it could not be used in the other direction?   Meaning to switch an existing DAC between two different amps?   Typically that would be headphone amp and speaker amp when they are both used in the same room.

 
Niles Audio made such a box, a passive switch.  I have one.
 
Truth be told, lots of people did, but Niles made theirs good enough to not pick up any hum or other noise.
 
As for SYS, it'll work the same, if you keep the volume set at maximum.

So the volume won't work the same in the other direction ?

 

[Tuco1965]

So the volume won't work the same in the other direction ?

http://schiit.com/products/sys

see near bottom

 

[bigro]

Why not digital volume control instead? If Yggy converts everything to 32 bit internally, isn't there plenty of room for "lossless" digital volume control before digital attenuation reaches Yggy's 21 ENOB.

 
You mean like Integrated DAC/AMP? 

 

[kstuart]

 

So the volume won't work the same in the other direction ?

http://schiit.com/products/sys

see near bottom

Yes, I see that Jason says the same thing.  If the switch has selected only one of the two (inputs that are now output), and it is passive, then why does the volume need to be at max?  You can tell that I'm not very knowledgeable at EE, but I can probably understand the explanation.

 

[gevorg]

Why not digital volume control instead? If Yggy converts everything to 32 bit internally, isn't there plenty of room for "lossless" digital volume control before digital attenuation reaches Yggy's 21 ENOB.

You mean like Integrated DAC/AMP? 

Not necessarily, just a DAC with built-in digital volume control. No moving parts too, so remote control implementation should be easier.

 

[madwolfa]

Not necessarily, just a DAC with built-in digital volume control. No moving parts too, so remote control implementation should be easier.

But but bit perfect yada yada.. May not fly with purists.