The curve is long and slow on the ears indeed.

I may not hear any difference but the math behind it sounds kind of fascinating to me. So all in all, I'm not sad at all to have dropped $2.4k and will be keeping it.

Of all the reasons to keep an Yggy, I'll admit this one came out of left field.

I'll trade you my ODAC and $500 for the Yggy's internals. You can use your supposed engineering skills to wire it up to the chassis and have the penultimate reference DAC for people who can't hear differences due to confirmation bias or other age related factors. You can call it the Bigshot I DAC!

Bolos, what you are saying has only two implications, (a) you have tin ears or (b) you have normal hearing but everyone else who is hearing how amazing the Yggy is are hallucinating / stupid enough to fall for confirmation bias? Which is it?

My Yggy is in my office. I asked my colleague to come over and listen to it through my HD800 and SR009. He is not a keen audiophile. On the first day my colleague heard a thin sounding, slightly harsh sound which he didn't like. On the 9th day he liked the sound very much (playing the same songs) and was amazed by how fluid, analog and natural things sounded, how deep and wide the soundstage was, and how detailed things were.

I happen to hear the same things. So has Marv and others. I do not think we are hallucinating.

no no. I actually do not doubt what he is hearing or not hearing. In other words, I believe him. I chalk it up to this:



Sort of someone else's idea so I cant take credit for it. But it does make sense.