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Author Topic: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison  (Read 12393 times)

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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2015, 11:02:56 PM »
I jumped from the D/S Gungnir to the Yggy and have not looked back. Even to my untrained ears, the pick up in detail and overall SQ make a step back to the Gumby unappealing. I will need to rebuild the war chest but any back up to the Yggy is another Yggy, thank you very much.
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2015, 11:18:01 PM »
Love the Gungnir Multi Bits new nick name... "Gumby"  :)p13
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2015, 11:41:34 PM »
Derail a bit, Merv, any Mjonir 2 (LISST) vs Black Widow contest?
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2015, 11:53:15 PM »
No comment for obvious reasons.
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2015, 11:59:33 PM »
I am hearing rag beats mjlonir 2. I am pretty confident BW beats rag in most headphones only situations. I'd take the BW unless you want an epic fucking speaker amp or are powering IEMs also (I preferred my UERM balanced out of Rag vs BW).
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2015, 03:09:39 AM »
Yggy is the only DAC I've heard where my heart sometimes skips a beat and I frantically spin my head around because I think someone is breaking into my apartment. It always (and let's keep it that way) ends up being a sound from the recording that I'm either hearing for the first time, or is so 3D that I think it's happening "outside" of the headphone. Really sends shivers down your spine.

Half of me wants to pocket the $1000 difference between the Gumby and Yggy, but the the potential of losing that effect has kept me from pulling the trigger on the Gumby. If the Gumby can replicate that, we've got something really interesting on our hands..
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #16 on: August 23, 2015, 05:21:46 AM »
Quote from: EraserXIV on August 23, 2015, 03:09:39 AM
Yggy is the only DAC I've heard where my heart sometimes skips a beat and I frantically spin my head around because I think someone is breaking into my apartment. It always (and let's keep it that way) ends up being a sound from the recording that I'm either hearing for the first time, or is so 3D that I think it's happening "outside" of the headphone. Really sends shivers down your spine.

Half of me wants to pocket the $1000 difference between the Gumby and Yggy, but the the potential of losing that effect has kept me from pulling the trigger on the Gumby. If the Gumby can replicate that, we've got something really interesting on our hands..

Listening to my very familiar old tunes that I have listened for 10-15years and hearing new spacial cues and micro-details, much higher levels of peak transients on the Ygg that I have never heard before on any other DAC is quite a spooky thing. Even AAC and Mp3 contain so much "new" information that I never knew was there before.
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2015, 06:10:20 AM »
Quote from: Merv on August 22, 2015, 08:19:49 PM
What really surprised me was the number of people who made the HUGE leap to the Yggy from modest DACs. I thought most would wait for Gumby since Gumby was hinted at so much, even from the man (Moffat) himself.
We can only blame you and your excellent thread (now closed) at head-fi! What did you expect for E+ rating...
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2015, 06:15:14 AM »
Quote from: lukeap69 on August 23, 2015, 06:10:20 AM
We can only blame you and your excellent thread (now closed) at head-fi! What did you expect for E+ rating...

Not really. Stillheart knows all. "Death to purrin's sycophants!"
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Re: Yggdrasil vs Gungnir Multibit (Yggy vs. Gumby) Comprehensive Comparison
« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2015, 06:18:38 AM »
Quote from: lukeap69 on August 23, 2015, 06:10:20 AM
We can only blame you and your excellent thread (now closed) at head-fi! What did you expect for E+ rating...

Well shit. It was the best darn thing I'd heard in all aspects until fairly recently.
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