Dac: Does anyhting beat the Schiit Gungnir Multibit (Gumby) in the same price range?

@abramsmatch

Thanks for that very helpful followup post, Mr. Match :-)

Definitely provided me with a more complete understanding of the Gungnir MB’s performance.

Appreciate you taking the time to supply all those details.

Best regards.

Wow, things change fast.  My friend got in the $1600 LKS MH-DA004 DAC and cold out of the box it beat his modified Yggy.  Now he has modded the LKS (with my instructions) and he says its as good as his $20,000 turntable system and that is playing 16/44 using a Beatis server and coax into a modified IFI spdif Ipurifer and modified LKS.  I have my own modded LKS here and it is really sweet........however, I did two more things to the modded OPPO Sonica last night and it is now really really close to the sound of the modded LKS....crazy....and its only $1200 with mods!   It has digital volume control, DSD512 capability, WIFI streaming, ethernet input and you can plug a hard drive or thumb drive into it and play without a computer......Wowie Zowie!

Sounds like digital, spdif, and 16/44 are not dead yet and the price vs performance value is also getting better, quickly. 

Does it beat the schiit gungir multibit Gumby?

Well, the Yggy is the Gumby's bigger brother.  A modded Yggy is better yet.  People have upgraded from Gumby to Yggy and are very happy.  But they have not heard these new less expensive toys.....and these better sounding cheaper units are more versatile as well. LKS can also do DSD512, has I2S input, has 7 digital filter selections and digital volume control too.