It's funny because the results of all the tweaking in the world with VCXOs, boutique caps, regulators, etc. are insignificant compared to the fundamentals of solid design. I doubt we will see a single "boutique" part on the Yggy, but instead just a bunch of surface mount components.
A few more thoughts on Rag/Yaggy.As mentioned, I sat down in front of the stack right out the gate. Jason and the Schiit crew were still setting up their booth, sorting out streaming issues, etc. I started in listening. After about 5min, Jason walked up with a bit of a smirk. He said something like 'well?'.I sat there with a big grin, struggling to find the words to frame what I was hearing. It was tough, because it was a new experience for me. After a few seconds too long, I mumbled something about attack, decay, clean edges, delineation, yada yada. Some of you that know me understand that I'm obsessed with DAC's. I came to the conclusion years ago that nothing 'downstream' matters nearly as much as the DAC, So I embarked on 'book learnin', forum reading and experimentation in fine, nauseating detail. I've swapped dozens of PS's in/out of my 'bench' DAC's. I've played with every shunt I can get my hands on, pre-regs, LDO's, different LDO chips, battery, the subtle tonality changes that can come with different caps in the PS. Wiring - from U.FL to soft annealed silver with cotton dielectric in the output stage... well you get the idea. What I was hearing was new to me. Whole notes. No digital hash, no plasticky sheen, no decay that's not quite right. In the wholeness of the notes, I could hear into them - between them. Space, air - and as a fellow pirate mentioned, texture. In the end, Yaggy will not be perfect - I love tech audio because the brightest of us always figure out how to improve things. Regardless - Yaggy V1 represents a significant step in digital to analog conversion. Sitting here listening to Rag fed by my uber bench DAC - driving HE-560's; I know my UberDAC's days are numbered.
