Schiit Bitfrost multibit with Gen 5 USB

[Magnus]

I am thinking about buying a Bitfrost multibit with the new Gen 5 USB board, anyone have any feedback on that DAC? How does it sound compared to for example iFi Micro Black label, which has the same price (but more features)?

One question also: does anyone know if Bitfrost multibit support volume over USB, so you can use “Use device control” volume setting in Roon and change volume from Roon? I know that for example Chord Mojo does not support that.

[Fernando_Pereira]

I’ve owned a Bifrost multibit for quite a while, it’s on its way back from Schiit after the Gen 5 upgrade. It sounds very good for the price, but it does not support external volume control.

[Carl]

Different Schiit DAC but might be relevant given the reports on USB Gen 5 board.

Schiit New yggy USB Gen 5 board not working with 24 bit [Resolved - Hardware Issue]

I recently upgraded my Schiit Yggy to USB Gen5. Maybe this was happening prior to the upgrade but I just notic d when I try to play an album from my NAS the songs scroll quickly at the bottom but no music. I just also noticed that while most Tidal albums play fine, some (Neil Young Hitchhiker) do th same odd thing with no music. When I tried to play directly with Tidal it works fine but not with Tidal from the Roon app.

[Magnus]

Yea, I read that, don’t know if a solution was found. However, I connect my dac directly to powered speakers, so without a proper volume control that Roon can use (without using DSP volume), I can’t use Schiit DACs anyway, at least not without a preamp.