CONFUSED: USB -- a "solved" problem, or back to SPDIF?

[JoeWhip]

If you have Unison, that is the way to go. Sounds better than spdif, at least in my set up. If not, then spdif makes sense, although with my Yggy, the gen 5 usb sounded very close to spdif, but not as good as the AES implementation. Unison even bests that now.

[JoeWhip]

My comparisons were usb from a laptop vs. spdif from a transport. With Unison, the laptop is the real winner. No contest really. Hopefully, I will get my hands on the Schiit transport by year’s end Which will have spdif and usb outputs.

[JoeWhip]

2 hours ago, davide256 said:

 

 

I did own a Gungnir with Unison, USB was always more resolving than SPDIF. I've also owned an Allo USBridge, electrically a  dirty device for its USB out.

 

The 192khz limit of Schiit's DDC's is a handicap... up sampling helps with USB audio resolution.

Most USB issues IME stem from the source device HW and software...electrically "clean" source hardware and good integration are key

to minimizing  detail haze and digital nasties. Microrendu did this right.

The Yggy and Gumby actually upsample everything to DXD resolution internally but do not accept native DXD input. So, if you feed the DAC 16/44.1, the megaburrito filter does it’s processing at 352.8. Sending it multiples of 24/48 results in processing at 384. The Yggy front has lights for 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x with the 8x being for DXD input. Maybe one day it will accept native DXD. That would also require an update to Unison which is Limited to 24/192.