#SCITE MODI AND MAGNI COMBO UPGRADE#I am looking to upgrade my lowly Schiit Modi MB A1 (gen 1) DAC, which (laughably) sits between my CAPS HTPC and my NAIM SuperNait3 integrated amp, which sends music to my Dynaudio Contour 20 speakers in a 2.0 living room setup. I prefer the Schiit house sound to Chord house sound, although I have never heard the Qutest. I am talking several hours worth of head-to-head comparisons, even Yiggy A2 vs. I have compared MANY a Chord DAC to many a Schiit DAC through Focal Utopia HPs at several meet-ups. Price is more reasonable at “Yiggy GS” levels but still a bit high during Covid times. Talk about the best footprint of any DAC on the market. Besides its price, its footprint has always been a little bit of turn-off for me.Ī step down in price is the Chord Qutest. Right now, my wife would kill me if I made a $2500-ish HiFi purchase. With that in mind, I guess I am not “HiFI dreaming” as big I used to.įor many years, I have been dead-set on a Yiggy A2 (in black). Well, here we are in the “during” Covid times and who knows, maybe my wife and I will both be unemployed by September along with 30% of the adult working U.S. I am also from Washington, DC and frequently go to meet-ups, at least back during the P.C. It is actually the same platform as the NAIM Audio Community. I joined here because frankly I really like this forum UX versus the others. I have been an active member at HeadFi for well over a decade and a very light member at SBAF for a few years. #SCITE MODI AND MAGNI COMBO FREE#Light bleeding improved a lot… good enough for feel free to erase this message if you do not accept duplicate from SBAF. It is possible to better “isolate” optically the front leds, I used some Blue Tack in between each led’s transparent piece of plexiglass, creating a small “wall”. So far in a blind test, I prefer phase inversion OFF (amp is non-inverting too). That’s too big of a difference to just be a phase inversion. Phase inversion makes a difference, especially on trumpets, but also where I did not expect it: some clean bass lines become colored when the phase is inverted. The click made during sample rate switch across songs is a bit more quiet on B2, and more important, very fast: Bifrost1 was missing the first 1.5s of the song, while Bifrost2 only misses less than 0.5s, to the point where it is slightly annoying, but can live with it on a random playlist.īifrost 2 usb connector is a lot more firm and less flimsy than on Bifrost1. So practically not a real issue, but still a nice improvement. #SCITE MODI AND MAGNI COMBO FULL#Note that this full amp volume is around 9dB higher than the max volume I ever use, at which hiss noise cannot be heard. InterestingĪttack and decay sound faster on B2 to my ears, as notes seem to start (leading edge/transient dynamic) and stop (decay) pretty much instantly, at least faster than B1.īifrost 2 is a lot less noisy at idle than Bifrost1: with Bifrost 1, I could hear a distinct hiss noise at full amp volume, while there is nothing with the Bifrost 2. While B2 is more extended, I get less listening fatigue than on B1. B2 definitely sounds more extended on both ends, especially top end. On the other end of the spectrum, those transients are really impressive on the B2, with a lot more nuances than B1.īecause of this, Bifrost 2 sounds warmer on low frequency content (double bass for example), and actually brighter when there is some treble content (acoustic guitars, trumpets…). It makes for less meat/body on the B2 acoustic guitars, less “saturated” bass lines, which sometimes can sound like a lack of bite on mid-centric tracks. The more I listen to it, the more this congestion seems related to B1’s worse/more fuzzy imaging, and to be responsible for the less clean presentation, mostly when mids are involved. I found Bifrost 2 to sound cleaner than B1, as if B1 suffered from a bit of mid congestion. I found that the biggest difference is the sound stage, which is laid back and very wide on B2, and more forward and a bit more flat (in comparison) on B1.īass slam is better on B2, but surprisingly only in the low bass.
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