Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar

STEREOPHILE: Its digital circuitry appears to have problems with high-level, high-frequency tones, and with the LSBs of 24-bit data. It’s possible, of course, that the former will be rare with music,

This says to me that it may never happen with playing music, maybe only with overloading with bench tests signals that Stereophile performed.
It maybe a fine balancing act designed into it by Mike Moffat to get the very best out of it, almost red-lining it to get the very best with music, before the nastie’s happen that Stereophile measured with bench signals.

Also I don't believe that Schiit advertises in Stereophile, make what you will from that. 

Cheers George

That said, I take JA of stereophile's comments as a serious concern with regard to the Yggdrasil. You can find other DACs in this price range that Stereophile has given a much cleaner "medical health checkup"!

Didn't we just go through this?
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/schiit-yggdrasil-21-bit

Don't you think you might be giving **WAY** to much credence to John Atkinson and Stereophile's review?

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701900/page-1130#post-13245036

See the above link for some comments from Jason Stoddard (Feb 8, 2017) relevant to Stereophile/Atkinson remarks about Yggdrasil.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701...

See the above link for some comments from Jason Stoddard (Feb 8, 2017) relevant to Stereophile/Atkinson remarks about Yggdrasil.

@ghosthouse

Thank you!!

@ghosthouse

The 20 bit thing is not on the whole a big deal. I think Stereophile was wrong to say that.

However to truncate or simply round the 24 bit incoming data shows total ignorance of 20 years of best industry practices for reducing bit depth. A designer who doesn’t have a clue about audio industry digital signal processing should not be designing audio digital converters, IMHO.