A New Dac for the System

Several months ago, my trusty Emotiva Dac died a full death, and it was to old to repair, so I went looking for another DAC. After doing a lot of research, I settled on the Schitt Bifrost. Part of it was the success I had with the little Eitr device I reviews previously. The DAC received great reviews and was within the price I wanted to spend.

I have not been disappointed after having it in the system for about 6 months now. It has an extremely detailed and clean sound. Absolutely no coloration regardless of the bit depth or sample rate. It is a good bit cleaner with better sound stage that the older Emotiva DAC, however I believe that is just an improvement in the technology over several years. It does have a galvonicly isolated USB input, and it reclocks the signal just as the Eitr did.

My only complaint is the there is no indication of the sample rate or bit depth on the front panel. In normal use, that is not an issue, however when setting up parameters in Pulse Audio on Linux, it makes it difficult to know if the config file is correct. Consequently I have to us my portable headphone DAC to see those settings. Once the config files were squared away, the Bifrost was seamless and transparent. If it remains reliable it will be in the system for a long time.

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