Schiit Byygy Dac Just Landed

I'm sure we'll see a trickle down to the lower priced schiit sooner rather than later, for those who don't want to drop $3k on a DAC.

 

Yeah they’ve already dropped hints that Singular will trickle down to Gungnir and then to Bifrost, eventually.

 

Did Schiit invite anyone to listen to Singular and compare to the old ones? I'm very interested in this but as of right now not much information on sound differences.

 

Ping me at the right time, and I should be able to lend a May KTE for the exercise.

 

DAVE aside I think a comparison with the Rockna Wavedream may be worthwhile since I've heard some folks describe it as "Schiit sound done better", just at a much higher price. This is all stuff I'm never likely to own but the academic curiosity is there lmao.

 

Somewhere out there, Jude is smiling.

 

Wavedream and Wavelight are getting refreshes too. Gonna ask Rockna in Munich how and when.

 

This would be the dream DAC right there. I currently use the transform modded ps audio DS mk1 in my main system and it has me pretty bought into the type of approach schiit is taking with the byggy. Has my cautiously optimistic.

 

I volunteer Taco-fi to participate in this endeavor if you're interested Marv. I am very interested in the new Schiit Singular, n-bit delta sigma is the future from my view and seeing another entrant from someone that knows what they're doing has me very excited. We are mostly seeing custom single bit delta sigma come out like playback designs or ps audio.

In Austin we have my rig we could use to compare Dave to the new Schiit and another one of the guys has a May he runs with all the HQPlayer trimmings and a great rig/room. We could make a day of it, get some great tacos and bbq along the way. What do you say?

Plus it'd be fun to have you in town and hear our stuff regardless of the comparo

 

What do you mean by n-bit? Honest question. I'm curious and would like to understand.

 

That sounds like a frikkin gold mine. Can you imagine all the different "collab" flavors?
My youngest would take a Taylor Swiftie Byggy in a heartbeat.
I'd take one with the New Orleans skyline on it called NO Byggy.

for me it wasn't so much the price tag (yeah, sure some) but the size. The Yggdrasil is just monster-sized and doesn't fit in any space I could envision for any audio system I'd want to have.

The Gungnir ended up being the size I wanted. I remember asking for a smaller Yggdrasil and Schiit saying, "can't be done." Then, Gungnir some 18months later? One of the things I love about the company.

Can someone explain n-bit D/S and how it differs from PCM with a different bit-depth and sample rate? One bit D/S I get. Is n-bit D/S just a low-bit-size PCM with a noise shaper?

 

in broad strokes its the same as 1 bit, but instead of oversampling to a very high frequency, and then modulating/noiseshaping down to 1 bit, you do so down to more than 1 bit. most delta sigma dac chips are like 2-5 bits, not 1. they haven't been one en-masse in a very long time actually, because its arguably impossible to design a stable single bit modulator. this is why it is somewhat confusing to me that all the custom single bit converters out there exist, instead of using multiple bits. Chord and DCS both use n-bit designs, and now Schiit as well will have one.

 

Thanks. This is very helpful. What would you say are the advantages of n-bit delta sigma over multibit designs?

 

I'll bring the modded mk1 to compare as well.

 

WTF? Delta sigma modulation is a mature technology for analog <—> digital conversion. It has been since the first multibit modulators in the mid 90s. Now they switch higher in frequency, enabling 1st order filters in place of 2nd order, they are quieter (there noise floor was already below a cd), and there’s much more crammed in the ic packages making them easier to implement in cheaper products.

 

What do you think we can expect of Byggi Smalls?