Schiit Yggdrasil Upgrades

limniscate
68 posts
12-17-2016 6:05am
I hope this isn’t true since I just bought one!

If you just got it then you can send it back for a refund as they have a trial period.

But then this new model could be hoax as well.

Ask Schiit about you sending it back, because you want the newer model that’s coming and see what they say.

Cheers George

@audioman58

Those "red" WIMA  caps are generally considered to be fine caps Polypropylene caps . Your last post is now causing me to question your first post.  With all due respect, of course.

Fo yourself a favor,  email Chris Johnson,  tech, owner of parts connecxion.
I am not here to debate but tell it straight.I know capacitors better then most 
Myself just finished molding my whole system and upgrading system capacitors
I have done since 2000. Am transformers is a precision capacitor much more so then wima which is just over a average capacitor at best. If you have not experimented with other capacitors vs wima then there is not much to debate. 
Do email the tech ,Chris at parts connecxion he has compared ,and  check out this reference, 
Humble homemade hifi capaciyor test. Please note there are several excellent capacitors not listed due to testing is by companies that Donate samples .

the red wima cap they use are a weak link 2 friends in the U.K have upgraded to these far superior Coupling caps

Hate to inform everyone, but there are no coupling caps. The Schiit Yggdrasil is direct coupled from D/A converter chip all the way through to the outputs with dc servos handling any dc offset.

Quote Schiit:
Analog Stages: Fully discrete JFET buffers for balanced output and discrete JFET summing stages for single-ended output, direct coupled throughout.

Schiit hold to the theory that the best coupling cap is no cap!

The Wima cap that was changed was probably a power supply bypass cap for electrolytics, and the red Wima is about the best you can get for this duty.

Cheers George

There is 6 Wima caps per channel 12 in total. 
Without question in the signal path. I heard both Yggdrasil units with Wima caps 
And with the Amtran caps.  Not one person picked the sound with the Wima caps.
The proof is in the listening.  I have nothing else to say on the matter .
I was just relaying the upgrade option .It is up to you what you choose to do or not.