The way you treat the box guy matters to me. I love "stuff" but I love people more. Good on you.

I really love these kinds of interviews! It's nice just hearing designers/engineers talk about their for lack of a better word, philosophy

Jason is awesome. Be like Jason

With respect to combining SS front ends w /tube outputs - KR Audio has done just that for many years. Their Kronzilla amps are perhaps the most infamous examples. Great interview BTW!

I love companies that do business this way! You got me as a customer for sure!

DAC/MultiBit talk starts at ~6min. 👍

This has been a fantastic series so far! Love hearing Jason talk about building products

Love the fact that he can admit that he is learning as he goes. Isn't that the story of life? Isnt that how we make progress by first being able to admit we don't know it all? Awesome guy. Someone I would enjoy working with.

Jason... I will buy many more of your products just because you have the integrity that you folks do. I wish more companies thought about the the small guys. I just ordered my Vidar. Very happy I did after listening how you feel about the box company you have been using from day one. Thank you. I cant stand Chinesium!

Love the sound of my Bifrost 2!

I respect the business loyalty he has towards his box person lol I'd gladly patron companies that do this type of goodness with commitment to quality.

Love jason. Super laid back, confident. Very relatable.

I love this company.

Dude that does it…schiit has that integrity with those that started up with them (within reason of course)..made up my mind, I’m getting the bifrost 2 soon…I’m sold on a company like that 👍🏼

21:08 - "Someday I'd love to do a *pure* tube amp..." - Fast forward to September 2022 and Folkvangr is released! I own this and it is something truly magical with the right headphones!!

Hard to believe this channel has 12k subscribers. Well 12k + 1.

More of that, please 🙏

i am enjoying your conversation. thank you.

Great interview and a great insight into their products, I have learnt a lot! I love that Schitt are loyal to their suppliers too, one of the many reasons I have recently ordered two products from them. Few weeks wait but I don't mind, and I am very much looking forward to plugging them in and hearing them when they arrive.

A big part of the sound of all tube power amps is the output transformer. Part of why Dynaco ST-70's could sound so good is they had very good trannies. And yes, tube amps can sound very neutral as opposed to warm and lush. Audio Research for example.

Schiit stacks are one of the best!!! Rocking a Schiit Modi 3+ Magni 3 stack here :)

This series has been fantastic. Kudos! I am very attracted to Jason's no bs approach, though I know not everyone is. Maybe I am biased by the fact that I own numerous pieces of Schiit, but I own them because I like how they sound and think they are excellent value. I even like the Jot (lol). While they are good marketers, Ime they are better engineers. But then I ultimately only care about sound, reliability, and value, and don't care about measurements except on the most gross level. This series resulted in me subscribing to your channel. Cheers.

Enjoying these interviews with Jason very much. I hope you get to interview Mike moffet as well. It gets even more fun if you get both of them together! Thanks!

3:23 That's kind but it's tough on the company, especially when Schiit was in California only. With Corpus Christi the rent/warehousing should be much cheaper.

I know this was two yeas ago, but I really want to know if Jason was drinking Belgian Trappist beer. Judging by the particular glass and the color and clarity of the beer, by best guess is Belgian Trappist. FYI, Trappist is not necessarily a specific brand. Trappist beer is an open-yeast method of brewing in Belgium with pedigree that goes back to the Belgian Trappist Monks who started the brewing tradition. Oh, yea, this was about audio! It's pretty clear, as a contrast to the brew, that multibit is the preferred DAC.

Love these interviews! Keep up the great content man :) By the way I fixed my TT2 in my system. Turned out I needed a better streamer. Changed from an allo digione sig to an Innuos zen mk3 with linear power supply and wow! Sounds amazing! ;)

Great interview series. Keep it coming. Great idea, original idea, professionally done. Wish Jason had answered your question on capacitors because I have been considering upgrading this on my tube amp.

And here they are 1 year later, OTL OCL 10 tubes Folkvangr. Pretty sure Jason was dropping hints about it back then! Are you looking to order a Folkvangr to check out yourself Lachlan?

Great interview! If possible, and if you haven’t recorded already, please consider comparing Modius + Asgard 3 stack vs the multibit dac card in the Asgard 3. I’m agonizing a bit since the prices are the same (minus cables) but potential tradeoffs seem significant!

Jason: we should send you a Bi - Lachlan : Yes!

Funny he mentioned the price. The Asgaard 3 is around $580 in Norway with the ES9028 DAC in black :P Shipping and taxes really hurts the prices.

That was such a nice idea to make this interview a 4 part video. Really enjoying it. I hope they can get around that box problem to lauch the new misterious product. Could it be an amp to stack with the Bifrost 2 with a different approach from Jotunheim? I'd like that.

“As soon as I got this Bifrost 2 I was like, get this Yggdrasil out of here ...” - lol ... I’ve been eyeing a Bifrost 2 + Lyr 3 - but, you know ... $.

It depends entirely on the circuit design and the voltage. For example, sparkos and bursonaudio have achieved very smart results in individual evaluations, but at some points, they become MSG completely, and even have no effect.

i have the Bifrost 1 multibit with the Lyr 3 russian tungsol and i love it also have a vali 2 little beast!

Just hooked onto this series, excellent thanks for these, just about to listen (well after work) to the Chord interview. I am running my first little stack although the dac and amp are actually seperated from each other, so it's modest but I like it, I have a topping e30 DAC USB Connected to my Macbook Pro as I wanted DAC stage to be fairly neutral. I then have 2 amps the Zen Can and the xduoo xp05 I think it's called the 2 tube hybrid. I am thinking of my next or additional stack and looking at topping 30 pros or a Jotuheim 2 with a D30 Pro, I have watched a lot of reviews and I have got so confused I've parked the whole project to be honest. What I wanted was a natural sounding setup with my headphones and maybe a little eq doing the end of train duty for sound assuming I can power they sufficiently. What I seem to have is super clean but sterile according to some topping devices on side or Schitt Jot 2 which are overly warm and enriched again according to some. My head has started hurting and I am a very technical guy in my day job but subjective to measurement based reviews and some of the comments on ASR etc have left me no wiser. I think I need to just be locked in an aladins cave or equipment for a week and just decide what the heck I actually enjoy 😁

I'm trying to figure out these posters on the wall: right is Lost Boys, the left is....Looks like 5th Element, but is that Marlon Brando? hmm...

Extremely interesting!

I currently have the Valhalla 2 tube headphone amp and have been looking into the Bifrost 2 as my DAC. Can you recommend this combo, or would you say that it isn't a good pair?

I have 5 pieces of Schiit and I like and enjoy them all but I hate that when I bought the Schiit Freya I discovered some shortcomings which was addressed and launched 2 months later as the Freya + but with no upcoming warning to make me wait. That was Schiity and now I do not enjoy my Freya knowing the Plus is out there.

haha, I wish someone told him to speed up the production of Multibit now is almost 1 year waiting time for it.

Streamer from schiit 🤷🏽‍♂️ id be all over it

Hey mate, love these videos! Would you consider a tube vs solidstate amplifier comparison discussion? I value your opinion mate. Cheers

I bought the original Modi Multibit but switch back to a regular Sigma DAC because the Multibit was too dark and made stuff sound flat.

Just got a Bifrost 2 as an upgrade from the onboard AKM "cheap ass balanced" dac on my Jotunheim and I have to believe I'm done buying gear. Now just more headphones. :)

Are just a head fi guy or do you also have dedicated 2 channel speaker system

Great interview. Have you tired the freya +? Or is that more for a 2ch system? Just curious what the freya+ would bring out of the bitfrost 2 vs topping d90se or denafrips ares 2. Obviously I have the freya + lol.

Hi! I asked about the Bifrost 2 on another one of your videos and was ironically pairing it with the A90 which you then said you had as well. Well the Bifrost came and was defective (and I had some frustratiom with Schiit’s customer service telling me different stories about which usb cables should work with it so I'm moving on and not trying another one. Sorry for the rant - anyway, I'm curious if you have other recommendations for a DAC in the $4-800 range to pair with the A90?

Where can I go to read about the technical differences between multibit and oversampled DACs?

Jason how did you get started doing this? I have an addiction to buying something and listening to it for an hour then I have a screwdriver in my hand opening it up and replacing this cap or that op amp. Sometimes I break the damn thing and other times I sell it and buy something else to see if I can break it, haha. I have transformed DACs and pre amps to what sounds to me to be crazy good sounding. I'm just wondering if you went to school and not just youtube I dare say that amount of education. I totaly want a T shirt that says WIMA on it I'll tell you that, I love the long burn in process they have the open sound I love the damn things. Of course I have a shirt that says "Who is John Galt?" on the front just probably because i'm an asshole to be honest haha.

How do we help multiply the subscribers to this channel by 100 like it deserves?

What is there that is opinion, when one can correctly, regularly tell that one product sounds better than the other?

What kind of headphones are you using, at first I thought beyerdynamic but, I don't remember their headphones having dual inputs for the cables.

Hi! Will u make a review on the Bifrost2? I was about to pull the trigger on one to replace my current rme adi2dac. Since I only need a pure dac, lot of functions in rme are wasted for me, so I thought a Bifrost2 might be a good replacement. Do you think Bifrost2 is better than rme as pure dac? And what type of amp would you recommend to pair with Bifrost2? I currently own a schiit Ragnarok, how will this two work as a pair? Really love your reviews, thank you very much.

I wish Schiit would go for DSD.

Kevin Conroy talks about audio.

Your personal preferences transcends cold measurements? Bo-schiit!

Oh no i hope he wasn't talking about the tansport. Transports go on the top of the stack right?

Next time you interview a DAC designer, please ask why they all refuse to build in a simple passive volume control. Getting rid of a preamp is a big space and money savings. Like most people these days, I only use one input going to the preamp, my DAC.

100 people tasted and ranked 10 fruit jams, everyone finished in under 30 minutes. When told to explain why they ranked each jam they way they did, none finished in less than 2 hours and all the rankings changed. Not a good idea to analyze likes and dislikes, trust your gut

Dude... if I click on a video about multi-bit DACs, I don't want to hear a 10 minute discussion about boxes 😅 please, cut that part out maybe

$699 + tax + shipping is what Schiit calls an "affordable DAC"