Very responsive buyer and quick payment, would happily sell to again.

Selling my HD800S that I purchased new fairly shortly after they were announced, SN 03299. Cans are in excellent condition, just a bit dusty and with normal pad wear. Listing includes original packaging, manual, USB drive, etc. but does not include the balanced cable, as I sold that years ago...

Selling my Raal Requisite SR1a and Schiit Jotunheim R that I bought new last year. Both are in excellent condition and come with all original accessories. Price includes all fees and insured shipping to CONUS. These are by far the best headphones I've ever heard. Only selling because I made the...

The only people who know (Jason, Mike) aren't going to say anything until it's available, if it even exists.

That would be some funny cabling, but yes, it should work just fine. If you go this route you need to post a picture, as I'd like to see the balanced -> 4xRCA and then 2x1/4 plugs -> headphone cables.

If you've kept Windows 10 up to date you shouldn't need drivers, since W10 is finally USB Audio Class 2 compliant.

Playing 16-bit audio in 24-bit mode means that, from a digital perspective, you have quite a large range of digital volume control before it has any effect on SQ. A single 24-bit packet at full volume looks like this: [16 bits of data][00000000] (8 zeroes, resulting in a 24-bit piece of data)...

Don't forget, the Rag doesn't have a "headphone section" or "speaker section," it's all the same thing, just with different connectors.

Personally I found the Jot just barely better/different than the Asgard 2 when using SE on both. Main thing I would mention for your overall query is that, at least with my Asgard 2 and the Jot that I tried, I was able to go much quieter without channel imbalance on the Asgard 2. If I had kept...

Then...just use one Vidar? Also, you can run mono into a 4-ohm load, but if you try and blow out your windows you might trip the protection first (which just means you'll have to switch it off and on again).

Warranty or not, it's still worth it to contact Schiit. They should be able to give you both suggestions and what your repair options are.

Because there are apparently no good XLR connectors that also contain a switch for when something is plugged in, but it's an easy/common thing for SE because of how the plug works. I know Jason has posted about this at some point, probably years ago.

Just use a y-splitter, there's no harm in having the Mimby output hooked up to both your speaker and headphone setups.

I prefer Schiit's multibit products, so I would recommend Mimby or Bimby. They both sound basically the same, so on sound quality alone I'd recommend Mimby. If you think you're going to keep it quite a while and might upgrade, maybe Bimby, but Mimby is definitely the better value proposition...

I suspect it's so that you don't have Windows switching sound devices on you when you turn your DAC on or off. My guess would be that they are of the opinion that if it's plugged in it should show up on your computer, regardless of whether the DAC is on or off. Entirely speculation on my part...

I cannot tell you specific numbers on Yggdrasil vs Mimby, but from my general experimentation and understanding having used a number of VSTs and dealt with trying to reduce latency, your output method and buffer size is by far the biggest contributor to latency (or the lack there of)...

Almost positive that was about the Manhattan Project; I actually don't recall having seen anything about potential Bimby updates.

Just the DAC needs to be left on. Feeding it music 24/7 may decrease warmup time (maybe, people seem to have quite mixed opinions on this), but keeping the DAC itself on is the important bit.

  Here are a few of @atomicbob 's measurement threads:   http://www.head-fi.org/t/764787/yggdrasil-technical-measurements http://www.head-fi.org/t/785367/bifrost-mb-technical-measurements http://www.head-fi.org/t/817404/modi-mb-technical-measurements/15   I know he did a second set of...

  The DAC chips take powered-on time to settle into their specs (on the order of hours/days), and measurements show that there is a real change in its output after being on for a number of hours.   Will you hear the difference? Not sure, some people are more sensitive to the differences than...

      Apologies if it was already mentioned, as I'm just getting caught up, but for cheap no-nonsense basic balanced cables I'd check out https://www.veclan.com/ (maker of quite excellent earbuds, and recently cables as well).   I haven't tried their cables, but I've seen reports...

  That's basically what FLAC already is. Short of better compression algorithms or possibly adding new metadata features, there isn't really anything you could do to improve upon current lossless tech since you're already preserving the original data.

    Yeah, I'd definitely go multibit and either Magni 2 or Vali 2 if you want a good compact stack. Or normal Modi 2 depending on funds, it's still very good sounding as well (the multibit offerings are pretty special though).

  1) Yes, it is fully and properly grounded. USB is not "galvanically isolated" according to @Baldr . I believe it was because it's a term (with regards to USB) with no proper/formal universally-accepted definition, but I could be mis-remembering.   2) Gen 3 USB, as far as any of us know, is...

I believe ASIO buffer settings are a separate thing to foobar's. I know with asio4all, when in use it shows up on the system tray and you can then adjust the buffer size from there. Based off of the numbers you mentioned, it sounds like that was foobar's buffer setting, as ASIO buffers are...