Bifrost owners will be able to send in their DACs to have the boards swapped, or they can do it themselves, if they’re handy with a screwdriver.īifrost is the first in a planned line of three Schiit DACs, including a step-up model with balanced outputs, and an all-out assault on the highest-performance DACs on the planet. In the future, Schiit Audio will make selected upgrades available for Bifrost when there are meaningful changes in USB or D/A conversion technology. Bifrost is scheduled to begin shipping on August 31. Bifrosts ordered without USB can be upgraded to add the USB input at any time with a $100 board, thanks to its upgradable design. Schiit Audio announced pre-order availability today for Bifrost, at a retail price of $349 (without USB 2.0 input) and $449 (with USB 2.0 input), sold direct from Schiit Audio’s online store, and through select international distributors and US dealers. Progress is a wonderful thing.” Schiit Bifrost Dac “And the Cobalt didn’t have discrete analog, and wasn’t upgradable. “Bifrost offers much higher performance than the last DAC Mike and I collaborated on (the Cobalt 307), has more features and more inputs, and costs only about half as much as the Cobalt,” said Jason Stoddard, talking about an iconic DAC that he co-developed with Mike during his Theta Digital days.
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It lets someone get in and get a taste for what high-end audio can do, and then can grow with their needs.”ĭespite Bifrost’s low cost, it’s packed with advanced features and high-end components, including the AKM4399 32 bit D/A converter, used in other DACs costing nearly 5X more than Bifrost, a fully discrete analog section like DACs costing thousands of dollars, a sophisticated bit-perfect clock management system to ensure the delivery of original music samples to the D/A converter, an advanced asynchronous USB 2.0 receiver implementation that offers 24 bit / 192 kHz playback from both Windows and Mac computers, and a low-jitter SPDIF receiver that is also 24 bit/192kHz capable. In fact, entry-level products are where you want upgradability the most. “Low cost shouldn’t be an excuse for a throwaway product. “We’re changing the level of entry-level,” said Mike Moffat, Co-Founder of Schiit Audio. Featuring modular design with upgradable USB Input and DAC/Analog Output boards, Bifrost offers virtually future-proof performance at an entry-level price.
Today, Schiit Audio announced the introduction of Bifrost, its first standalone DAC and the world’s most affordable fully upgradable DAC.
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