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Author Topic: Schiit Yggdrasil Review and Impressions yggygiggity thread (production units)  (Read 42977 times)

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #40 on: May 01, 2015, 07:50:04 AM »

So... Unnecessarily bloated with a loose bottom end and artificially bright top end, and ultimately a total waste of time and money, but a little more obviously so based on these pictures. Good to know.

Looks to me like a very well controlled bass --- but the pictures give us no clue a to how forward the top end is.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #41 on: May 01, 2015, 01:23:33 PM »

Gee, I wonder why there aren't more women in the hobby...
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #42 on: May 01, 2015, 01:43:35 PM »

No contest. Nothing AGD has or will ever have can touch it in anyway. Frankly, the comparison is almost insulting.  ;)

Updating OP with some third party measurements from another site we choose not censor.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/764787/yggdrasil-technical-measurements
I attempted to post the technical measurements here but due to my low post count, it took admin intervention to allow me to upload pictures into a post. I will put all of that into a post here this weekend. Day job requires some measurements from me for acoustic evaluations of enclosures.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #43 on: May 01, 2015, 02:58:11 PM »

Nice one atomicbob! Have a few requests :3

1. Reconstruction filter characterisation - White noise overlayed with a HF wideband spectrum of a 19.1khz tone both played at 44.1kSPS to look at them aliasing and Schiit's awesome filter.

2. Impulse Response

3. I'm sure you gonna do it but hey 1khz -3dbFS FFT. 
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #44 on: May 01, 2015, 07:51:51 PM »

Listening after 48 Hrs of warmup. Now I know what all the talk about digititus was about.

Compared to my Anedio D2 the Ygg is so nice to listen to - the passages that made me cringe no longer do. It's not that the musical info is missing it's just that I'm able to open my ears and listen to it. No fear.

Also, Benthic and Planktonic Foraminfera in abundance.

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #45 on: May 02, 2015, 10:22:23 PM »

Hope mine comes in next week, I'm getting fuckin impatient!

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #46 on: May 03, 2015, 07:38:25 PM »

Nice one atomicbob! Have a few requests :3

1. Reconstruction filter characterisation - White noise overlayed with a HF wideband spectrum of a 19.1khz tone both played at 44.1kSPS to look at them aliasing and Schiit's awesome filter.

2. Impulse Response

3. I'm sure you gonna do it but hey 1khz -3dbFS FFT. 
It will be in the next measurement set after warmup. I use square wave for the step response and to assess what, if any, DC coupling caps are in the path. What level is the white noise? What crest factor of white noise? There are plenty of different variants for white noise implementations.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #47 on: May 03, 2015, 08:18:52 PM »

Hope mine comes in next week, I'm getting fuckin impatient!

Mine shipped last Tuesday and is due to arrive this Tuesday.. longest week-long wait ever. The $50 extra for 2-day shipping seems so insignificant now, should have just ponied up for it lol
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #48 on: May 03, 2015, 08:21:16 PM »

atomicbob,
I'd like to request a 50hz(0dbfs or -0.1dbfs) spectrum into a real load.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #49 on: May 03, 2015, 08:24:24 PM »

Would be nice to see various single tone THD results and various IMD results as well to supplement the existing measurements you have taken so far. Also agreed on wanting to see impulse response or, if not that, 1KHz square wave results.
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