Schiit Bifrost vs. the original Peachtree Dac-it

kahlenz

... There is no such thing as accurate. At best, playback systems should be designed for the pleasure of the listener.

That's a fine preference, but of course it has nothing to do with high fidelity.

Fidelity to what?  What the mastering engineer hears?  Then hook up a pair of Auratone 5c speakers and listen in an anechoic chamber.

With notable exceptions, most engineers master for the average consumer.  No matter how it is mastered, all recordings are destined to be played back in a bewildering variety of systems, usually assembled to the taste of the owner.  Those of us with more revealing systems like to call them "HiFi"s.  It's a matter of semantics.

Mzkmxcv

I think you need to read this

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-audioquest-hurricane-part-1

Bo1972 knows about high fidelity

@2psyop

Anyone who thinks a power cable makes any difference is sadly mistaken, any product that has a non-optimal power cord is few and far between and should be considered defective. The only caveat is if you live next to like a radio tower, where you have crazy EMI, which Paul McGowan (who sells >$100 power cords) even admits; but even then, a 20¢ ferrite chocked will fix that. 
 
It’s no different than buying those Brilliant Pebbles that you scatter across your room to reduce reflections.

Please don't bring the power cable discussion into any threads where it hasn't already popped up!

But that does bring up a question about the Topping D50. It does not appear to come with a power source. Why not? What if I'm not planning on using a powered USB source? At least the Schiit Modi 3 and Multibit come with a wall wart. Why would Topping leave that out?