Schiit Audio Releases its Unison USB Upgrade

[Jeff_N]

I placed the order to upgrade my Yggy on January 29th, and got the email to send it in on March 2nd.

[Jeff_N]

I thought I still had my old DAC in a closet somewhere, but I can't find it and I can't even remember what model it was. So I'm stuck listening to my phone until I get the Yggy back. 😩

[Jeff_N]

Found it! Peachtree ITx, way back of the top shelf. I'll have to hook that bad boy up this weekend when I have a few minutes.

 

Curious to hear what it sounds like after listening to the Yggy for a couple years.

[Jeff_N]

Hi Jon, they did send me an email yesterday to tell me my Yggy had arrived.

 

I agree with Joe, they're probably just backed up. However if I was in your shoes I might send them an email to put my mind at ease.

[Jeff_N]

Hi All,

 

I've had an unhappy experience from "upgrading" my Yggdrasil to the Unison USB interface. It may just be due to my stupidity, but in case anyone else is as stupid as me I thought I'd memorialize it here so people might find it if they Google it.

 

Chris, feel free to move this to the Aurender thread if you think it should be over there.

 

Okay here goes: My Aurender N100C worked fine using USB into the Yggdrasil for a couple years. The N100C has USB and Coax outputs, but I've always preferred the sound using USB. Then when I saw all the hype about the Unison I decided to send the Ygg to Schiit to have it installed.

 

I got the Ygg back with the Unison installed. Now every time I fast forward from one track to the next on the N100C, a loud half-second buzz is generated. The buzz occurs with both locally stored and streamed content, and even when skipping from one internet radio station to another. It was driving me nuts.

 

I swapped out the Yggdrasil for a Peachtree DAC iTx. No buzz!

 

I contacted Schiit, and their support guy told me Unison only works with Windows 10, Mac OSX, iOS, or Android. "It will most likely not work with a regular Linux system."

 

I went back and looked at the email Schiit sent out announcing the Unison, looked on their website, etc., and I may have missed it, but I don't see anywhere where they said anything like "No support for Linux" or "Only works with Windows and Mac OS" or something similar.

 

I understand hardware manufacturers can't be expected to know the compatibility of every single component out there, but IMO Aurender isn't an obscure brand, and Linux isn't an exotic OS these days. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

 

So anyway now I've spent four hundred bucks on the upgrade, shipping, and insurance, and I have a DAC that has gone from working perfectly in my system to not doing so, and I'm pretty ticked off. I guess I'm mad at a combination of Schiit and myself, and I should probably take most of the blame, which just makes it worse. When I checked the Aurender website just now the only Schiit DAC it shows to be compatible is the Bifrost.

 

The Aurender sounds too damned good to get rid of. I don't know what I'll do now. I may think about selling the Yggdrasil and getting another DAC. Right now I'm too bummed to think about it.

 

Jeff

 

 

[Jeff_N]

Wow, I didn't expect any help at all, much less this quickly. Thank you Chris and Ari.

 

Davide, there is an option in the Aurender software to delay start the next track by a number of seconds, and I tried a few different values, but it didn't solve the problem. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jeff_N]

My issue in post #118 is solved, the Yggdrasil and Aurender N100C are playing together nicely! No more buzz when fast forwarding to the next track.

 

Thanks so much to Ari and the rest of the Aurender team, and of course to Chris!