A friend of mine has the Regen and uses it in-between an Aries streamer and a Mytek DSD192 DAC. It made a very nice improvement. He just added a pair of Audioquest Jitterbugs and they made an even bigger one (in conjunction with the Regen. There's a thread over on Computer Audiophile where several people are reporting similar "combo" results). Why it works? Who knows. That it works is apparent. Not subtle at all. We (well, he, as he was the one spending the money) initially thought he might want a single Jitterbug (inline) *maybe*... but the second one (in parallel, shoved into the Aries' USB drive socket) added yet another bump in performance that neither of us could deny. For such a cheap tweak, they can have a profound impact (two of them is like $98 -- cheaper than the Regen by almost half!). We didn't try it without the Regen in the system. Someday I'd like to, as I haven't invested in a Regen and I'd love to think that it's somehow superfluous.
I owned Wyrd for long awhile, and Regen green and then Regen Amber.Sorry, but Wyrd did not deliver the best soundstage, detailing or background clarity with my iMac, MacBook Pro, Gungnir nor Yggy.Regen was a clear winner with smaller form factor but bigger price tag.You decide what is most important.
Skips and blips likely will not be fixed with usb decrapifying mojo. You might want to check your system device settings and seeing if you can increase the priority on the usb ports, or turn overall system performance to high, or shut off any power saving modes on the usb ports, etc.
Does the Modi 2 uber draw any usb power?
So, can you just unplug the second jitterbug while the music is playing and hear a difference?
yup. and plug it back in to get it back. in his loudspeaker system it wasn't a subtle change.i had less luck with a simpler chain and headphones (Z7 or Nighthawk + GO1k (v1)). 1 JB was a nice bump, 2nd in parallel was (maybe?) a bit better, but not $50 better. varies by system.
