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I'm a little worried about this... something might be wrong with my Yggy. After five days of burn-in I'm only hearing only tight t-shirts and cutoff jeans – nothing even approaching a string bikini. There are notes of smoldering bedroom eyes, but nary an over-the-shoulder 'come hither' smile.

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I suspect you may me thinking too much about your own satisfaction here. Work a bit harder at trying to find out more about what Yggy likes. Maybe you're just not stroking the right places in the right way. Maybe you need to talk to each other about this.

But hey, what do I know! Yggy is way out of my class!  You're a lucky guy to even be in the same room

Mine arrived yesterday.  I'm taking daily notes; will report in a week, maybe two.  Ideally I want to wait till the new toy effect has worn off and I can be fully objective but that will probably take a few months.

Using it with Rag/LCD3F and Event Opal studio monitors. 

I'm thinking to upgrade my current setup of sonicweld diverter (with linear power supply) & audio-gd ref-7 to this dac. I may be able to pick up one from my local retailer in Australia. The rest of my current setup consist of current generation stratus and hd800-lcdX. Based on impression so far, it seem that upgrading to this dac will provide improvement on bass and better depth of soundstage (please correct me if I'm wrong). Even though I'm very happy with performance of my current setup, its bass impact and soundstage, still thinking if it can be improved with this dac.

However, how is the tonality and timbre of this dac, compare to master 7 or ref7. I had an opportunity a while ago to a/b master7 & ref7, and found master7 lower/mid treble bit dry for my taste.

I may have a chance to audition one before buying, but I doubt it will be warm up properly so it might make the process of auditioning bit useless.

Thanks in advance.

Looking at the yggy's squarewave closeup (as a proxy for impulse response), the mega-electric-burrito oversampling filter can be seen: (looks to be) fully symmetrical and linear phase, possessing an exceptionally low amount of ringing while maintaining an admirably flat 44.1k frequency response. [For some reason I got the impression that the yggy's impulse response would be asymmetrical, leading to my mistaken guess that the filter was minimum-phase.]

Mega-burrito: flat response (-0.1db@20k), minimal temporal ringing [maybe minimal FR/phase ringing too], linear phase, preserves samples (FIR-filter passes through zero at integral k of the original f_s). [Generating these characteristics in a solved math way is impressive. I might be able to find something close through optimization, but I can't just input ".968" into a mystery burrito maker/function and get a tasty wrap: well done.]