[Timster]

Not entirely Schiit related but I just took delivery of and hooked up a Bluesound Node 2i. It is hooked up to a Modi Multibit thru spdif/coax.

I bought it because Bluesound recently knocked $100 off the price but I guess I'll be the sucker when the Node 3 is announced next month for another $100 less.

Anyway, it's a moderately-priced certified Roon endpoint (that may be a bigger deal than I originally thought https://twitteringmachines.com/roon-changes-support-for-uncertified-roon-ready-devices/ ) and it also works nicely as a Spotify endpoint which make my wife very happy.

It sounds great thru the Modi and was stupid easy to set up. I'll post additional thoughts as they come up but as of today, I like.

Don't sweat too much on a new model. I was waiting a while to see a Node 2i on sale, and I picked one up last Xmas for $200 (AUD) off the retail. 10 months later it's still the current model.

Oh, and I think it's great too, and will sound better I'm sure when I get a Schiit DAC for living room. Currently feeding the XMC-1 with the Blusound out to Magni 3 for the headphones.

 

[tafens]

I agree, I don't want my manly 160W monoblocks thought of as 0.2hp monoblocks. Of course, 546 btu/hr monoblocks doesn't sound bad...

Sure, if you are heating your listening room.

That’s an interesting way of seeing it, so with the right kind of equipment (tubes are a given) who needs radiators, fireplaces or other pesky heating solutions to warm up the listening room?

 

[macdonjh]

Sure, if you are heating your listening room.

Indeed, but they sound better than the furnace. Our furnace is always a little off key.

They are particularly welcome in winter.........

Our fur balls are often off key as well.

 

[US Blues]

That's news to me but I'm in.

Are they named Yin & Yang?

 

[Ripper2860]

Showed the cat pic to my wife and all she saw was the Louis Vuitton bag.

 

[FLTWS]

Now that's funny!

 

[bcowen]

Showed the cat pic to my wife and all she saw was the Louis Vuitton bag.

Sheeeez. As far as cat pics go, that one was about as black and white as you can get.

 

[sduford]

Are they named Yin & Yang?

Unfortunately not! We got the black one first and named him Oreo, then we got the white one and named him Milk. Both are rescues.

 

[macdonjh]

Showed the cat pic to my wife and all she saw was the Louis Vuitton bag.

Careful there! LV costs more that Schiit, and will get less use.

 

[AudioGal]

That’s an interesting way of seeing it, so with the right kind of equipment (tubes are a given) who needs radiators, fireplaces or other pesky heating solutions to warm up the listening room?

One of my many odd hobbies is collecting and restoring old 500 series Tektronix oscilloscopes. Full of vacuum tubes. My 555 dual beam 'scope has over 100 vacuum tubes in it. Plus the outboard regulated power supply. Heats up the work space quite nicely on a cold winter evening.

 

[shapeshifter44]

Any chance Schitt can make a bluetooth receiver (w/ dac built in), like ifi Zen Blue, etc. ?

 

[tincanear]

Any chance Schitt can make a bluetooth receiver (w/ dac built in), like ifi Zen Blue, etc. ?

very unlikely. best to look at other manufacturers if you want Bluetooth.

 

[CarlosAudio51]

Any chance Schitt can make a bluetooth receiver (w/ dac built in), like ifi Zen Blue, etc. ?

Jason and company have stated before on this thread that they won't mess with it because it's a compressed and lossy transmission format.

To be honest, I would not consider Bluetooth for serious listening. Don't get me wrong, it is useful. I have Bluetooth on my system but I only ever use it whenever I'm doing other stuff in the vicinity of the system and just want background music. I bought the cheapest Bluetooth receiver I could find on Amazon. Even if Schiit came out with a Bluetooth receiver, I wouldn't buy it simply because it's not worth the extra expenditure, given my use case.

Edit: If Bluetooth was included on a future Schiit DAC, I guess I could just ignore the Bluetooth but I wouldn't buy the DAC just because it had Bluetooth.

 

[shapeshifter44]

Jason and company have stated before on this thread that they won't mess with it because it's a compressed and lossy transmission format.

To be honest, I would not consider Bluetooth for serious listening. Don't get me wrong, it is useful. I have Bluetooth on my system but I only ever use it whenever I'm doing other stuff in the vicinity of the system and just want background music. I bought the cheapest Bluetooth receiver I could find on Amazon. Even if Schiit came out with a Bluetooth receiver, I wouldn't buy it simply because it's not worth the extra expenditure, given my use case.

Edit: If Bluetooth was included on a future Schiit DAC, I guess I could just ignore the Bluetooth but I wouldn't buy the DAC just because it had Bluetooth.

The use case for me is to allow my speakers play youtube videos. Use a long usb cable could be annoying. I bought the ifi bluetooth receiver dac but found the sound quality very bad as compared to using its digital output to my yggy.

 

[CarlosAudio51]

The use case for me is to allow my speakers play youtube videos. Use a long usb cable could be annoying. I bought the ifi bluetooth receiver dac but found the sound quality very bad as compared to using its digital output to my yggy.

Well... You're comparing Bluetooth to Yggy. Not really fair. I'm not sure you'll get anything close to Yggy sound quality out of Bluetooth but maybe others will speak with more authority on the sound quality on some of the newer Bluetooth codecs.

There's also the added variable of Youtube sound not being lossless. Granted some videos on YouTube have good sound and sound fine in my system but my system is far more humble and less resolving than a system with the Yggy.