Loud and clear, and still chuckling. I do have the original B2 and a Jotunheim 2, both in silver (of course) - the only black piece of schiit I have is the IE Magni, which is superb, but there i had no choice (but i do own silver crayons and aluminium foil, whichever might suit my fancy).
Using many, many words…I would like to selflessly volunteer to be a tester for said big new world-altering Schiit, too. I vow to rip it apart if I don't like it. Easy for me to do, being the old curmudgeon that I have become and all.
@Jason Stoddard if the Thing has USB connectors, hopefully these will be USB-C and not the antiquated and less robust mini-B type?
"Toadies"?! "...suck up Toadies", you say?!! Doth this hint at something...dare I ask...Toadish? Probably not and no reply is needed as I am well aware that my becroak vs bespoke tastes let alone the sixth sense are not normally catered to by Schiit and more's the pity. But my family and friends are. For example, my son is enjoying my Valhalla and the Magnius/Modius setup immensly. And I? I matter not one whit, but to me, they do. The Holy Days approach and I am often want to present my loved ones with presents and for my brothers, audio fits the bill. The word "gift" in German is "poison", ergo I avoid it as often as is toadishly possible.
Did the 650s originally have paper cones?
Nice use of really old english there! I took Chaucer in the original middle english at uni, and don’t know if Slidden was around even for him. Made me think there for a minute.
I believe that Finnegan will handle that chore.When will you be holding services for the tube?
Glad to hear it's settling in. Give it a month or so-and give us a good review of this new Bifrost. I think have trained ourselves to be good-well Really good listeners.That would be nice if this was the case, with this particular unit. I'd say just about every piece of class-a or even class A/B solid state gear I've owned last 45 years had some early "settling in" period even if it was for only 1hr in the first hour. A notable difference with amps until they reach full bias, sure but an ss dac, we'll see more feedback on this, I hope. Perhaps it was dead cold and now specs change once fully warm. Making Schiit up now, hahah, LOL. No. Actually heard it. No joke.
In this case, the change was very notable even in the first 45 minutes. There was a midrange strange glare and sibilance at first. Was odd, made me think at first, oh man, "hope i don't need to return this piece of Schiit". Nope, not the case now - its good now. fwiw, I've been designing and building speakers for 4+ decades, I mod my own amps, caps, etc and do some early prototype demos for a few cable manufacturers. I've learned to listen very closely [over several decades now] and taking notes on early power-on and settling is a sidebar geek-out ocd thing I do. Sharing with you, there was a change in sound, for whatever reason. Or, the dac may be faulty and somehow mended itself. Who knows. In any case, sounds better now. 5+ others on this site alone agree it settles in week1, and @automojo felt he heard changes up through week2 with constant power-on too. We know each other from the speaker world, on other sites. I'll go with his rec on this plus 5+ others, and why would sound change if left powered on "all of the time" as even @Schiit even recommends for this dac to "leave it on". Why, if nothing changes.. hmmm.
Thanks for your input though. We'll see what the majority says in time once this new BF 2/64 is out there a while longer, and all experience is good. Thx.
I don't know what 1-bit magic they are building, but 1-bit designs that perform well are not simple, as this slide deck teaches, see slide 5 for the most basic 1-bit design from the 1990s, slide 28 for a block diagram of a better performing design. Indeed, the by far the most expensive DACs I own, built into Linn Klimax gear, use such a PWM-AFIR design, with a lot of the cost going into getting signal delays just right. Don't ask for detailed explanation, I'm only learning about this now and my DSP knowledge is very rusty.
That Grauniad is a great example of their supercilious silliness that keeps me from ever sending them any money. They go find some willpower-depleted subjects who blame streaming for their lack of self-control, and then make that into a pretentious zeitgeist piece. Some of the best albums I've heard recently I found via streaming:
Mine does the same thing, but only when using USB input. It happens very infrequently when using coax input
Most of the new albums that I find are through internet radio stations or from personal recommendations. I will take your list and explore.
Ghosts, Michael Wollny
In These Times, Makaya McCraven
View With a Room, Julian Lage
New Seasons, Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica (thanks to our resident philosopher)
The Song Is You, Enrico Rava/Michael Hersch
Americana, JD Allen
Valse Sinistre, Billy Drummond
Saudade, Plínio Fernandes
Mississippi Son, Charlie Musselwhite
The Spirit of Ntu, Nduduzo Makhathini
Afrikan Culture, Shabaka
Fair.
That's why I'm a solid state guy. I've been clean for 6 years now, ever since I got rid of my Lyr 2.
I did have some fun sticking some Soviet space race era tubes in it before throwing in the towel though.
It was just too much. I retreated back from the brink, and wanted fewer options (which is unusual for me as I am usually a tinkerer)
There are plenty of us here who can tell you........I more and more often really am one, not gonna lie.
Ironically, it most often happens whenever someone is complaining, moaning, or whining about some first world problem, or about something that happened to them but could have been avoided with a bare minimum of upfront thinking or even the slightest sense of personal accountability. That stuff just drives me up the wall, and it gets "worse" the older I get. Heck, I turned 41 two days ago; 20 years old me thinks I'm an ancient fossil at this point anyway. So why not embrace the fact that I'm turning into an old fart, shouting at clouds.
