Good to know Al
Is this the same Schiit DAC that Amir has torched?
No, it's not the same one, Amir measured the Bifrost i think. JA published measurements on the Yggdrasil in Stereophile which made it seem that it didn't perform well. I was worried, and already wanted to shoot Schiit an email to ask what's up with that. But then I read on some sites arguments why JA's measurements are no good -- on technical grounds. Others have also measured the DAC and found it superb on the test bench. After having discovered all this I decided on "never mind" -- not worth getting into this whole debate or paying further attention to. I also decided that I would judge the unit purely by its sonics. I'll get more into details once the unit is fully burned in and I have performed extensive comparisons with the Berkeley DAC. But so far so good. The DAC has both finesse and balls, and is very natural sounding to my ears.