Classic… I like your style. I take it you/we watched a lot of John Noakes and Valerie Singleton in our youth. “Just like one I made earlier” “With sticky-back tape, toilet roll tubes and fairy liquid bottles”!
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Love the remote.
The dog looks like a terror on 4 legs.
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Oh gosh yes - the christmas candle thing to burn down your house made with coathangers and tinsel was legendary!
Hence the somewhat Shep-like dog also…
She’s actually the best-behaved border collie I ever met (my wife takes the credit for the training), she’s not keen on Jazz though, much prefers my more, er, ambient tastes 
We had a border collie that was well trained but loved to get in trouble every time she could. She liked to herd the neighbor kids which was kind of fun to watch.
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Aye she has a basket (out of shot) of around 30 (identical, to me) tennis balls - she knows them each individually, herds them around the house in groups, and frets when one is lost (such as under the sofa or lost in the garden) - very focused. She saw a laser pen once (usually a cat delight of course) and really really went weird. We looked it up - the advice is never to play with a border collie with a laser pen, it actually induces a kind of mania! Who knew?
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They are Manic enough without the laser.
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for the Flying-V Uke!
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Thanks for sharing, a very impressive system.
Chas
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Thank you:)
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That’s a beautiful system. -Any room treatments?
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Thank you John. No sir, no room treatments yet. That may be next in line.
Prepare for a shock!
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I almost bought the same Schiit setup as yours plus a DAC but their Amps as nice as they are don’t have enough juice (even in bridged Mono mode) for my Sealed Box 901’s. Personally, I have a stupid Stigma about Amp bridging ever since my Adcom GFA-555II had a channel die after running it bridged for less than a year. Of course, it ran in Stereo mode trouble free for over 20 years so probably not a fair comparison. Wound up getting a Stellar Stack at twice the price but I’ve done Class AB for over 25 years, I took a leap of faith and love the sound of the M700’s with the SGCD/Preamp. With the M1200 now due out next year (was hoping for a Xmas release), I’m hoping to get in on Beta testing or at minimum trade ij my M700’s and pay the difference for 2x M1200’s.
Luckily I don’t need a whole lot of power anymore, especially with these Klipsch Heresy III’s. I probably could have gotten along just fine with a single amp at 20 watts per channel.
I can honestly say, going with the Schiit stack, the improvements are not subtle at all. I’m actually still quite shocked at the sound. And I haven’t even begun any tube rolling yet. These stock tubes (which are now JJ’s BTW), are super silent and sound really good. In passive and JFet mode, there was nothing coming out of the tweeters, even at full volume. I had to double check to make sure the amps were on!
Once my Sonus Faber speakers sell, I plan on buying the Bifrost DAC, and maybe sell my mmf-7.3 to go with the new Schiit turntable, the Sol. Anywho…
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That’s some cool Schiit.
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LOL! Thanks!
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Schiit seems to have a killer combo, with those horn speakers, wish I could hear that system, nice set Chops. It’s the good Schiit.
The only thing about Schiit DACs is Schiit’s rather negative attitude towards DSD and MQA. Although I agree with their opinion about MQA they declare DSD dead and listening to my Blue Coast Music I have no clue what the hack Schiit is Talking about. I just prefer a system, when paying thousands of Euros, to play any formats modern digital services feed the system with. The DACs of PS Audio, Chord, T+A, dCS, ELAC, Hegel and the likes don’t confront me with music format head aches.
Schiit is not alone though, Primare, Linn etc. also are not big on DSD either, while yet considered to sound excellent, so maybe my concerns above are not a big issue. I hate this audio file format Schiit. When is this audio video industry ever going to standardize. If not on one format why not on all. It’s actually why I dislike MQA, it’s just added confusion.
Yeah, I pretty much agree about making everything standardized. Why have all of these different formats come out that all do similar things with similar results. Just like SACD and DVD-Audio, not to forget HDCD back in the day, except that was a 2-ch only format (which is all I need anyway). Heck, why even have different bitrates and such, like DSD 64, 128 and 256? Just stick to one stinkin’ bitrate and be done with it. Same thing with digital outputs, Toslink, coax, USB, and now HDMI. Just stick with one and go with it. Yeah, I know they carry different bitrates and such, but if we had a standardized bitrate then we’d have just one style output.
Anyway… I’m going on a rant I don’t care to be on. LOL
The reason I want to go with the Schiit Bifrost is because I had the first version years ago, fully upgraded it and knew what it was capable of. The new Bifrost is even better than that now, plus they are always hardware (and now software) up-gradable. There’s not too many DACs out there capable of that sort of updating. So IF Schiit ever decide to get into DSD or MQA, it would most likely be a hardware and software update to make the Bifrost capable of those formats. Plus it’s a lot of DAC for the price.