It looks as if Yggy production is ramping up. I ordered mine on 7/31 with an expected delivery sometime in September, but I
just got a notice from Schiit today that it had shipped, and should be here Saturday, 8/15. Nice. 

Of course, it could be due to cancellations.

yes.
Using Uptone Audio Regen (Amber).
mainly due to a crappy old iMac 2009 that produces noise out of any USB port used.

Just got my Yggdrasil recently, seriously fuck this guy:

The 3D presentation compared to the flat 2D presentation of the Yggdrasil

http://www.head-fi.org/t/553677/totaldac-dac/60#post_11598764

2D? 2D? I think he doesn't have earlobes or something. Yggdrasil is 3D.

Will copy pasta from newest to oldest:

Hands: Maybe the other Boulder pyrates can chime in. They heard the Model S a bit there.

Hands: I prolly said this before in Marv's HF DAC thread, but that TotalDAC vs Yggy post actually matches a lot of thoughts I had w/ my non-oversampled Model S and Theta Gen Va. Brief listening at Boulder meet was similar. Oversampling often flattens the 3D nature of instruments and voices for me, but it does provide many other benefits. Namely the Yggy and Theta sounded very clear to me, where as NOS is probably always gonna be slightly softer, especially with redbook.

To clarify, neither Yggy or Theta were 2D sounding. This is all relative to my ears and one of the few reasons I go NOS even though it compromises some other areas (that I care less about, which other feel the opposite about). Yggy is damn fine.

OH and Yggy/Theta are wider sounding. Stage is smaller on NOS.

I find the desperation to find something better--at any price--quite amusing.

I could also say, "Big surprise, someone skeptical about a product from the start finds that his results confirm his bias."

What I will say is: sit back, relax, and enjoy the music. Have a drink if that's your thing. And, if after enjoying some great music, and having that drink or two, the urge to spend car-like money on a DAC still remains, take a vacation and travel somewhere you've never been. Explore the world a little. Learn to fly a plane. Or surf. Or go to Bondurant and race. Learn to be a sommelier. Or just tour wine country. Or go get laid. Or smoke a doobie. Or any one of about ten thousand other things that are a lot more interesting than obsessing about the last 0.0035% of audio performance.

Heresy? Sure. Why not. Look at our name.

Great post Jason and, yeah, I was thinking the same thing - he expected Yggy to not be "all that" and expected the Total DAC to be fantastic, so I wasn't surprised by the outcome.

I am quite happy with my Yggy, even so, I am going to take your advice and tell wifey that instead of getting a new DAC I should just get laid.  Hopefully this strategy will have multiple positive outcomes. 

Chris