High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.

audioman58,

"...digital now can not only match a good turntable  but in many ways surpass them in several areas..."

Be careful. If guys from the "vinyl vs. digital" threads read this, you are in trouble.

So what's the general consensus on the Schiit Yggdrasil these days? Any recommendations in a similar price?

Cd's sound just fine to me on a very good player. Maybe I'm old....I have no need or intention on ever streaming anything.....and sacd's sound even better. I am I guess one of the crazies that likes to hold and touch my physical media. Downloading crap just ain't for me. 

Now, we can finally do discrete dacs well enough and economically enough...so R2R comes back with a vengeance, in the high end area of digital. Same for the FPGA versions of similar design and thinking as discrete R2R dacs.

And this Airist discrete R2R Multibit Dac was peanuts, around $299 or something with a Massdrop purchase, got the quota filled very quick. All 300 getting shipped next month so they say.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-airist-audio-r-2r-dac?mode=guest_open&utm_campaign=Drop%...

Review
https://darko.audio/2018/06/airist-audios-r-2r-dac-350-via-massdrop/

Measurements
https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/airist-r2-r-dac-measurements.6418/

Cheers George

 As explained to me by Paul Weitzel of Tube Research Labs, who was both a recording and equipment engineer, the problem centers around engineering, engineering of the source material and engineering at the reproduction end. People fixate so much on format types and it really comes down to the quality of the recording and the quality of the equipment used to transduce it. Hi Rez formats have no relevance to me as most of my source material and prized music is Redbook.