Thank you very much for replying to my question. I am aware of the likes of say Audioquest Jitterbug which claims USB line and signal filtering amongst others and another variant iFi iPurifier 2.
Both options are compact and am wondering if you place a Jittetbug at the point of USB connection to your PC, would this be as beneficial compared to Wyrd? I am rapidly stepping out of my depth now, but if one thing is rooted in me, Schiit would not produce something that resides in the land of the Dark Magic. At least I hope so!
The drawback with Wyrd might be it's size and it's being a powered device. On the plus side it's a powered device. It can easily bridge some distance. Let's say the most convenient place for your digital source and your dac is 8 feet apart. Not a problem, but you will need an extra usb cable. You can't do that with a Jitterbug. The Wyrd does more in the sonic improvement part of the game also. It is true Eitr should be coming sometime in May. Welcome to Schiit
The drawback with Wyrd might be it's size and it's being a powered device. On the plus side it's a powered device. It can easily bridge some distance. Let's say the most convenient place for your digital source and your dac is 8 feet apart. Not a problem, but you will need an extra usb cable. You can't do that with a Jitterbug. The Wyrd does more in the sonic improvement part of the game also. It is true Eitr should be coming sometime in May. Welcome to Schiit
The latest Stereophile (with the 500 recommended products) takes another dig at Schiit, IIUC. At the end of the measurements section of the AVM amp (integrated?) there's a drive-by slam at "idiosyncratic amp designs." IIRC, that's how one of the Schiit amps was described.
Now, they are starting to annoy me. It's one thing to be in the pockets of the manufacturer but quite another to go out of one's way to be demeaning.
Oh, and 6moons? I thought the whole thing was an exercise in click-bait. After all, why put a review on one page when it can be spread over 6-10, all of which are fill 2/3-3/4 of the viewable area with ads?
Like newspapers, they are a dying media. I would suspect they are pissed that Schiit figured out how to get to the market and consumers without them. They are slowly being relegated to the scrap heap of history.
Playing around with input or output connectors in the "on" mode has resulted in my Yggy's Sample Rate Indicator lights going out and it passes no signal through the unit. I only have 44.1 CD player connected AES or Coax so it's not like it's constantly having to deal with sample rate changes. The unit seems to go "off line" (but not 100% of the time) when I screw around with the IC plugs. Simply restarting the unit always fixes the issue. Not screwing around with connectors in the "on" mode prevents it altogether.
I have seen a lot of USB 2.0 interfaces, even on fairly high end laptops, short chassis to digital ground. Has created some impressive smoke in MIL isolated gear. Usually, when you get to USB 3.0, 3.1 or type C, the manufacturer has figured out to stop making that stupid mistake. To test, try using a DMM to measure resistance between the shell of the down stream connector and pin 4 of the USB plug while plugged into your unpowered source. If 0 ohms, well, there you go.
The deprogramming thesis should have started with cables. I have to dig up that article where published audiophiles could not tell the difference between multi thousand dollar speaker cables and coat hangers, yes literal coat hangers twisted together. As for power cables, you have to run them back to your utility.
How about a new component from Schiit Audio like a centralized powered control hub (I'm thinking about the size of my Gungnir) that you plug all of your Schiit AC plugs into the back and it has a row of power on/off switches running all along the front panel? This way we never have to hear again about the power switch being on the rear panel.
Maybe even add a couple glowing tubes (battery powered of course) to the top panel to add extra bloom to the AC supplied to the plugged in Schiit gear. I didn't sleep last night by the way...
I'm not certain of the Norse words for "no reach around required."
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