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Author Topic: Schiit Yggdrasil DAC Review (pre-production): a short preview of your next DAC  (Read 80228 times)

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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2015, 01:47:36 AM »

at what price point does it become wiser to buy a human trafficked slave from the Czech Republic and send her for music lessons instead of all this digital crap?
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2015, 01:52:12 AM »

About the price of a MSB Diamond DAC. And even then, Czech girl probably can't sing like Muddy Waters or Eva Cassidy.

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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2015, 01:58:22 AM »

Excellent!
Thanks for these insights… :thumb

I suspect that Jggy will both astound and frustrate, depending upon the rest of the system in total.

And as I stated before, for a piece of gear to evoke an emotional reaction, in the first place, 'all by itself', tells me it simply HAS to have so much right to begin with.

Your evaluation confirms this, in spades.  :thumb  :thumb

The Anax mod v.2 is the best of that lineage, but IMHO, if you REALLY want to uncork your 800's, do the SAA hardwire and mod to them.
"In a completely different league" indeed.


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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2015, 02:08:49 AM »

Maybe Marv or others who have heard the Yggy with speakers can answer this question:

I'm aware that the Yggy may not be for everyone when it comes to headphones, but how is it when paired with speakers? Are the concerns with the Yggy applicable to speakers, especially concerning lower quality recordings?
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2015, 02:20:03 AM »

at what price point does it become wiser to buy a human trafficked slave from the Czech Republic and send her for music lessons instead of all this digital crap?

I'm sure some of those mail order Russian brides can come with music packages preinstalled.
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2015, 02:22:00 AM »



Maybe Marv or others who have heard the Yggy with speakers can answer this question:


I'm aware that the Yggy may not be for everyone when it comes to headphones, but how is it when paired with speakers? Are the concerns with the Yggy applicable to speakers, especially concerning lower quality recordings?



It's not at all that the Yggy makes bad recordings sound worse. Bad recordings are still rendered better on Yggy than say than Mytek, Yulong, Hugo, even Gungnir, Master 7, Gen V.

The issue becomes that Yggy makes great recordings that I have like Muddy Waters MFSL, Midnight Oil, some remastered Stanley Black, REM MFSL, etc. so much more spectacular that it becomes difficult to hear the inferior recordings. This is speaking from both the Theta Gen V DAC (essentially the predecessor of the Yggy) and Yggy experiences on my speaker rig(s).

Now I know people who like the NOS-ancient-R2R-chip sound - that's different - people who like digital setups that emulate mediocre vinyl rigs should stay away. The biggest question may be for people who already have something in-between like an AMR-DP777 or Resolution Cantata and are happy with that. But my stance has always been do not upgrade if you are happy.
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2015, 03:12:07 AM »

Speaking of the AMR DP-777, it's on top of my to-listen-then-to-buy list at the moment. I can't resist the prospect of the Yggy satisfying me at a lower price point though. Purrin, can you expand on what you mean by "in-between"? Are you classifying the AMR as in-between NOS-ancient-R2R-chip sound and digital setups emulating mediocre vinyl? Or is it in-between the ancient R2R and the Yggy?
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2015, 03:17:43 AM »

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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2015, 03:35:20 AM »

It's not at all that the Yggy makes bad recordings sound worse. Bad recordings are still rendered better on Yggy than say than Mytek, Yulong, Hugo, even Gungnir, Master 7, Gen V.

The issue becomes that Yggy makes great recordings that I have like Muddy Waters MFSL, Midnight Oil, some remastered Stanley Black, REM MFSL, etc. so much more spectacular that it becomes difficult to hear the inferior recordings. This is speaking from both the Theta Gen V DAC (essentially the predecessor of the Yggy) and Yggy experiences on my speaker rig(s).

Now I know people who like the NOS-ancient-R2R-chip sound - that's different - people who like digital setups that emulate mediocre vinyl rigs should stay away. The biggest question may be for people who already have something in-between like an AMR-DP777 or Resolution Cantata and are happy with that. But my stance has always been do not upgrade if you are happy.

Thanks Marv. The bolded part should be emphasized more often in this hobby haha.
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Re: Yggdrasil: a short (p)review of your next DAC
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2015, 03:59:10 AM »

Nice. A review where I actually understood every word.
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