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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #410 on: April 11, 2014, 02:12:17 AM »
Got the Uberfrost in last night, using it via optical (24/96) with my mobo, because: 1) my sound card is refusing to work with the DAC, and 2) I have no other cables lying around.
Maybe the output signal is much stronger than I'm used to or something, but Civil Wars sounds great already. Bassy reverbs on stuff like the acoustic seem to sound real-er than before. Cheers everyone for your input!
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #411 on: April 11, 2014, 02:18:05 AM »
No USB gen 2?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #412 on: April 11, 2014, 02:29:59 AM »
It's there! I just don't have the cables.
[Edit] Is there a difference between optical via mobo, or optical via soundcard?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #413 on: April 11, 2014, 03:22:43 AM »
Ahh okay. Yes there is technically a difference as the optical from your soundcard may have less jitter than the optical from your mobo. Plus you'd get some soundcard features for using optical with it.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #414 on: April 11, 2014, 07:00:30 AM »
Soundcard is more likely to have better performance than mobo optical, but you shouldn't have to worry about any of that once you hook it up via USB.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #415 on: April 11, 2014, 04:34:42 PM »
Just got the cables all hooked up (USB, optical). Still can't get my Xonar to play nice with the Bifrost but at this point I can't be bothered.
What's more worrying is the USB connection is all kinds of popping, crackling badness (at all bitrate / frequency combinations)--weird. Perusing this thread in the hopes of isolating the problem but BOY do I hope I don't have to fiddle around that much to get this to work. My iPod dock couldn't arrive any sooner.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #416 on: April 11, 2014, 05:14:17 PM »
Do you have other computers and USB ports you can try? I'm assuming latest drivers? Did you double check your audio output settings? Hopefully that's not indicative of a problem with the DAC, because I experienced no such thing with the Gungnir (also gen 2 USB).
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #417 on: April 11, 2014, 10:32:53 PM »
What player are you using and have installed and used the right drivers for the Bifrost from Schiit's website?
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #418 on: April 11, 2014, 11:51:59 PM »
Quote from: hans030390 on April 11, 2014, 05:14:17 PM
Do you have other computers and USB ports you can try? I'm assuming latest drivers? Did you double check your audio output settings?
Yes, I've tried 2x USB 2.0 ports and 1x USB 3.0 port now, all at the back panel. All are loyal to cap'n crunch. I grabbed the drivers from the Bifrost page.
Audio output was tested under Windows Playback Devices...every test I run in there has the pop + crackle.

Quote from: Anaxilus on April 11, 2014, 10:32:53 PM
What player are you using and have installed and used the right drivers for the Bifrost from Schiit's website?
iTunes, set to Windows Audio Session at 24/96. Downloading Media Monkey to see if it makes a difference, but I doubt it--problems showed up in Windows Playback Devices.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #419 on: April 11, 2014, 11:55:31 PM »
Try the Jriver trial.  Mediamonkey used to be utter crap as of a year ago.  Use ASIO or kernel/bit streaming.  Whatever you Mac guys use these days.
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