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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #130 on: May 14, 2015, 12:41:38 PM »

Check out some Cat Stevens. The MFSL recording of "Father & Son" off Tea for the Tillerman has a hiss that gets more audible after 20-25 seconds.

I'd imagine an HD800 + Yggy + [Insert Ultra Revealing Amp Here] would make old Sam Cooke albums borderline unlistenable. "Why is Sam Cooke recording in a snowstorm?"

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #131 on: May 14, 2015, 11:58:53 PM »

Soon someone will claim that to reach the exact optimal internal temperature this device has has to be kept in a room at 26.4  degrees Celsius for  2 weeks plus 11 hours after being switched on...

Anyway, I understand - by reading selected messages of this thread- that YES! we have arrived!

To be able to get sound quality on par with good old LP sound we had to wait 40 years after the introduction of the CD. In the meantime billions of music lovers have unfortunately been forced to listen to something inferior. Just temporarily of course, but what can one say? ( except "sorry", that is).  Now we also can see how the audiophiles of the world have been fooled time after time by hundreds of similar devices that during this time-span have been deemed by reviewers as "fabulous tools to rediscover your CD collection" , "analogue-sounding digital at last!" etc, etc.

But now at last!! At last a device has been given to mankind that can reveal the soul of music (and the plankton of it), in a way that brings tears to the eyes of even the most hardboiled of audiophiles. It weighs a ton, costs thousands, and needs a couple of weeks to warm up. (It does not even have a headphone jack, not to speak of any optical disk reader, but these last things would  be the complaints of only the most simpleminded of the simpleminded, needless sto say).
 
Gentlemen pirates! (and Muppetface): I must protest! I claim that we have ended up in one of those grandiose blind alleys that mankind has found itself in several times  through history. (Airships, weapoens too good for actual use, etc, etc). We must return to equipment that speaks to the ordinary music lover!

The inventors of the CD must be rotating in their graves (if they are dead, that is).

Other than that, I wonder if plankton does not rather feed on hiss and dist, and if there were not more cheap and obvious ways to produce those things (and in the right amounts).

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those  photos in on the early pages showed too little skin texture (I could not sense any plankton, so to speak) and the horrible red cast also reminded me of cheap porno from the early years of the internet ( but back then we knew not any better, of course).
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #132 on: May 15, 2015, 12:43:49 PM »

What kind of sound does a snowstorm make?

Just curious.  :-Z
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #133 on: May 15, 2015, 01:06:26 PM »

What kind of sound does a snowstorm make?

Just curious.  :-Z

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #134 on: May 15, 2015, 04:27:36 PM »

Yggy Dac detects purring:

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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #135 on: May 15, 2015, 04:58:38 PM »

What kind of sound does a snowstorm make?

Just curious.  :-Z

The sound of snow (assuming it isn't a blizzard) is the most amazing thing about it: silence.

I'm happy to be here in my tropical climate, but that thought sends me into a reverie.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #136 on: May 16, 2015, 12:17:44 AM »

Ok. will add my 2 cents regarding the way I hear Yggy's magic.
   To put it simple imagine hearing the singer, how sound coming out of his/her mouth can be heard as particles of air. Sometimes those particles can be smaller or bigger, more or less grainy, sparkling or dull, colorful or matte. With Yggdrasil as opposed to all of the above you actually hear air; absolutely smooth, clean, properly weighted and distributed, palpable and I don't know how else to describe it but this makes you feel everything sounds simply natural or how many already noted analogue.
    With this kind of naturalness and honesty of sound presentation you can probably imagine this thing is extremely revealing about the true nature of your headphones. This may be something one has to think about real hard as nothing is going to be masked for your listening pleasures. 
   If you can handle honesty then you will love this thing, I sure do. Congratulations team Schiit! 
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #137 on: May 16, 2015, 10:10:53 PM »

I'll add to the fact the Yggy Dac is absolutely quiet, with very dense images in their own sound space, which allows previously crowded and or congested passages sorted out and intelligible.

Yggy also scales and presents huge dynamic contrasts while maintaining a completeness and flowing presentation like a well set up T.T.

I never thought this was possible with digital, but here it is.
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #138 on: May 17, 2015, 01:25:32 AM »

Being that the Yggdrasil is a 21-bit DAC, can it still play true 24-bit recordings?
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Re: Schiit Yggdrasil Review/Impressions thread (production)
« Reply #139 on: May 17, 2015, 02:59:15 AM »

Being that the Yggdrasil is a 21-bit DAC, can it still play true 24-bit recordings?

Yes because true 24-bit recordings are probably true 18-19 bit depending upon quality of A to D conversion.
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