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Can i use different external PSU with this?

Have it warm up a few days (yes, unfortunately, days ) for the dacs to thermally stabilize, and then listen. And if you can feed it spdif, it will go up a few more notches in refinement and nuance. This difference is verifiable, by quite a few people, so time is your friend.

Interesting. I don't doubt that the Mutec sounds very good, and will know soon enough. I am just curious as to why, apart from the Mutec related sites, I haven't read any comparisons. Don't read anything into this, I don't know myself, yet. I have Mutec on the way, and can report back, soon enough.

Tell me who to send the fund to, thanks!

Much better, in my estimation, but it also depends on the setup. With leaner speakers and tubes its more pronounced than solid state, so it becomes a matter of system matching. More 3d soundstage, not much loss in detail or accuracy, and a more involving musical experience.

Oh, I agree with how the Regen helps, its just that equipment is voiced with other equipment, and that may be how the Schiit stuff is voiced. I have an LH Labs Vi Dac Tube coming in, and am holding on to the REGEN for that. I will look around to see if I can hear the Curious stuff, this is all starting to add up! Willy

DrN, I have the similar findings with the Gungnir Multibit. I find that putting in the Regen thins out the sound a bit on the midrange, leading to more separation of instruments, though the LH Labs Lightspeed cable also contributes to that, and it might be going a little too far. It does improve my iDSD micro by a lot, though, so your combination will vary your results. Also, with the new Schiits, i find that converting USB to SPDIF to be so large a difference, that you won't even have to double blind to prove it. And if you add the Regen in that setup, I find that it thins it out so much more, its unlistenable. Now curious about Curious cable!

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Wait till you have it on for a week. You be jammin...

Yes, ygg needs to be running to get the thermal conditions stable, though I would think some run through would help. There is the burn in part (say 40 hrs?) and there is the warm up part, which can take days. Its all worth it though. You can have the output hooked up, and not have your preamp or amp running, as well.

I think you were the one I read having sold it. In another note, the Gungnir MLB that I received on September 3 finally started to sound settled two days ago, and resembled what I heard in the Schiit show last night. At that point I put in the Regen and properly started to listen, and enjoy it. Eleven days it took but the wait is worth it, in my experience, as it starts to show better midbass control and more granular volume modulation of the differing lines. The detail I actually heard from the time I warmed it up, but sounded a little busy. Everything fell into place yesterday, aurally. I should find out how long it takes to get back to this state after it is turned off, but I'm not in a hurry to find out, just yet.

I have the same exact sentiment as you do. When a BIG improvement will happen with something like a Regen, something must definitely be off. My obervations are similar, though I came about this with the Regen having different effects depending on the DACs. I tried them with the Gungnir MLB, and it had some impact, but nothing I couldn't live with. I tried them with an ifi iDSD Micro, and this one was very readily discernable, cleaning out a lot of the digititis this dac seems to have on some material. On a Teac UD-501, I had similar results, to a lesser extent. The USB Regen addresses things on the DACs, but I guess some of them have more USB issues than others? I ran this through a PC>LH 10G>Regen>Dac>Bryston BHA-1>Moon Audio Black Dragon>Sennheiser HD-800 Anax mod 2 setup. YMMV, mine certainly did.

And it ships! Looking forward to burning it in with the Gungnir Multibit next week. I just started the warm up process with the Gumby yesterday, so hopefully they come together at the same time. (5 day Schiitt burn in, two day regen?) Thanks, Alex!

Oh, no doubt. I say allegedly, cause I get the feeling it will take even longer. Marv (Purrin) who beta'd the prototype does concur that the time goes down over time, but still needing 4 or more days after he turned it off. Not sure how long Gungnir Multibit will take, but I am looking forward to it settling. I've actually only read of one person selling his Yggy, everybody else loves them. And the wait is now to the end of September. And I agree, that's why their name is Schiitt, cause they don't give a rats ass about the bull, stuff.

Someone mentioned that 300 hours was barely under the threshold for Schiit's return policy. Convenient that. AND if you turn it off, you have to preheat it again (I think its for the chips to hit an operating temperature to stabilize), but for slightly less time (7 days?), cause its not burn in. Am burning in a Gungnir MLB right now, and that allegedly takes four days.