Schiit Bifrost vs. the original Peachtree Dac-it

@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?

@n80

It does take power over USB. But yes, odd they didn’t include a wall power cable. I know some owners use an Anker portable battery to power their’s (hey, it’s not as crazy as people using a Chord Mojo as a desktop DAC).

So if I were not going to use it with a powered USB source I would have to buy a wall wart with the right specs? Probably not going to do the battery thing even though I already have one of the Ankers you mention. I don't thing the Anker will charge and power something at the same time. Have no desire having to worry about whether my DAC has a 'charge'.

Have also heard a lot of negatives about USB power.

@n80 
 
ASR measurements show no difference in performance using USB power nor the Anker. The D50 uses a standard 1amp 5v, so something like this will work. Again, won’t defend the decision to not include one.