[zhunter]

As I saw there is a small button on the front beside indicated leds, I supposed it is the switching outputs' one.

 

[Maxvla]

As I saw there is a small button on the front beside indicated leds, I supposed it is the switching outputs' one.

Inputs actually on the Bifrost.

 

[WobblyGoblin]

Is this a stupid question or wouldn't this do what you want?

Not these specific versions perhaps. I know many of you would want the $4000, blessed by Jesus, version
 

 

[mp5th]

Jason, any chance we can get a module for additional digi input instead of usb?

 

[FOXY]

Which price range dacs the Schiit DAC going to compete with?

 

[Hero Kid]

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Which price range dacs the Schiit DAC going to compete with?

 
$350 or $450 for those USB fiends? 

 
 

 

[judmarc]

Noticed in a photo stream somewhere a picture of Schiit amps burning in.  Wondered if Bifrosts will be fully burned in when shipped or if we can expect that they will need some burn-in at home before they sound their best.

 

[shaunybaby]

Wait you mean that they send there amps off to the customers already burned in?

 

[Hero Kid]

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Wait you mean that they send there amps off to the customers already burned in?

Yep.

 

[shaunybaby]

I don,t want to say your lying but has anyone emailed them on this subject to be sure of such?

 

[olor1n]

Why does it matter? I doubt it'd be unbearable out of the box.

 

[judmarc]

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I don,t want to say your lying but has anyone emailed them on this subject to be sure of such?

Hi, shaunybaby.  As I mentioned above, there's a photostream somewhere (wish I remembered exactly where - if I locate it I'll let you know, or maybe someone else here will recognize it from my description) with captions that was sort of "A Day in the Life of Schiit," showing their offices, Mike and Jason doing designs, their production lead Rina Slayter, etc.  One of the photos was captioned "[Name of Schiit Amp] burning in" or something like that, and showed a couple of rows of amps sitting on shelves.
 
I haven't e-mailed them to ask if this was an extra special shipment; I assumed it wasn't and that they did the burn-in procedure for pretty much everything they send out.  Anyhow, I've posted the question about Bifrost burn-in here, so if Jason answers "What burn-in?" or something similar then we'll know either I hallucinated the photostream or that *was* a special shipment of amps.
 

 

[judmarc]

Found the photostream.  At the following link, a little over halfway down the page, photo captioned "Burn in."  http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schiit/4.html 

 

[ornitorrinco]

Hi judmarc, I think the photos you are mentioning belong to this 6moons article.
 
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schiit/4.html
 
Hope this helps.
 
Santiago

 

[Jason Stoddard]

Hey all,
 
Burn-in? Yep, everything's burned in for a day before we ship. This isn't for audio quality, though--this is to catch early failures. Our amps usually improve over the next 50-100 hours of run time beyond our burn-in. Bifrost will probably be similar.
 
Power supply scrimping? Uh, no. Like I've said before, we don't do wall-warts, we don't do switching power supplies. Bifrost uses a 4X over-specced EI core transformer (the same kind of transformer we use on all of our gear,) feeding 5 stages of regulation, with low-noise regulators in critical sections, and over a dozen conductive polymer aluminum solid electrolytic capacitors--which you typically only find on very, very expensive gear. Bifrost is no joke--it's a serious DAC!