Really?!? Schiit said it would void the warranty if someone used a different fuse???
By the way, I’m one of those people who’s used "boutique brands" since 2011 (I know you meant no harm by your statement). And they do change the sound for the better, mostly noticeable as a lower noise floor. I’ve tried Hi Fi Supremes, AMR, Horizon, Furutech, but have ended up sticking with Synergistic (I have each generation of their fuses). I wouldn’t bother changing the Yggdrasil anyway, as 1), it isn’t fully burned in and 2), I like it as it is.
As for the power cords, I eyed my Shunyata Zi-Tron sideways and wondered if it wouldn’t be put to better use in the Yggdrasil rather than the Arcam FMJ 23, which is now merely a disc-spinner. But I think not. Not for the time being, anyway.
I’m of the observation that isolation from vibration is more important that fuses, simply because, when your equipment is doing the cha-cha (and you can’t see it), the tiniest cues are missing. Even though I’ve have Finite Elemente equipment stands for years, putting the Townshend platform under my turntable, then getting the iso-pods and putting them under the amp, convinced me that vibration really does more than we realize, to the point that some of our older equipment was likely better then we knew at the time, but that was back in the ’80s, and the new hot thing then was Tip Toes! It’s odd to think that nobody considered the effect of speakers sitting on the carpet or floor (or maybe they did!). I followed TAS’ Enid Lumley, who proposed things that people - at the time - found outrageous - such as capacitors having a "memory." She was found, over time, to be right on the money about that. Then she said remove the speaker cables off the floor (did that one, too) and I even demonstrated that (it’s in another thread) for some Illustrious High End Luminaries that, indeed, Enid was right again (despite those who say they can hear no difference. That’s something I cannot fathom, having hearing loss in one ear, and I can hear it easily. Just not that very second. It takes around 2 hours for cables to settle after being moved AT ALL before you can hear the sonic changes). that’s what happened last night when I put in the old ESP cord and was chagrined to hear that the sound was "muddy." I had to remind myself to leave the room and come back an hour or two later (I usually give it two hours) and THEN, it was most decidedly NOT muddy, but a clear improvement. It makes one wonder why equipment manufacturers provide these generic cords, but then, who’s going to give away a $300 power cord that the customer might just re-sell for a profit, so, in hindsight, not so strange.
But even without all this folderol, the Yggy is quite the beast! I was happy just reading that it could be turned off for an hour or two and then it regained its magic after another hour or two. Maybe I’ll take it to the local dealer and let him listen to it. Of course, it will be plugged into an ac outlet I have in my car, so it won’t be without power for more than the 30 seconds it takes me to move it from its perch to the car (if I decide to do that).
How long did you find it took for the upper midrange glare to subside? I can hear it mostly on Mercury Living Presence recordings, since their microphones had a peak in the upper midrange and highs, but it’s clearly a bit "hashy" sounding at 156 hours. I hear - from the head-fi.org site - that it’s somewhere around 200 hours that that sound goes away. Did you experience that with your unit?
By the way, I’m one of those people who’s used "boutique brands" since 2011 (I know you meant no harm by your statement). And they do change the sound for the better, mostly noticeable as a lower noise floor. I’ve tried Hi Fi Supremes, AMR, Horizon, Furutech, but have ended up sticking with Synergistic (I have each generation of their fuses). I wouldn’t bother changing the Yggdrasil anyway, as 1), it isn’t fully burned in and 2), I like it as it is.
As for the power cords, I eyed my Shunyata Zi-Tron sideways and wondered if it wouldn’t be put to better use in the Yggdrasil rather than the Arcam FMJ 23, which is now merely a disc-spinner. But I think not. Not for the time being, anyway.
I’m of the observation that isolation from vibration is more important that fuses, simply because, when your equipment is doing the cha-cha (and you can’t see it), the tiniest cues are missing. Even though I’ve have Finite Elemente equipment stands for years, putting the Townshend platform under my turntable, then getting the iso-pods and putting them under the amp, convinced me that vibration really does more than we realize, to the point that some of our older equipment was likely better then we knew at the time, but that was back in the ’80s, and the new hot thing then was Tip Toes! It’s odd to think that nobody considered the effect of speakers sitting on the carpet or floor (or maybe they did!). I followed TAS’ Enid Lumley, who proposed things that people - at the time - found outrageous - such as capacitors having a "memory." She was found, over time, to be right on the money about that. Then she said remove the speaker cables off the floor (did that one, too) and I even demonstrated that (it’s in another thread) for some Illustrious High End Luminaries that, indeed, Enid was right again (despite those who say they can hear no difference. That’s something I cannot fathom, having hearing loss in one ear, and I can hear it easily. Just not that very second. It takes around 2 hours for cables to settle after being moved AT ALL before you can hear the sonic changes). that’s what happened last night when I put in the old ESP cord and was chagrined to hear that the sound was "muddy." I had to remind myself to leave the room and come back an hour or two later (I usually give it two hours) and THEN, it was most decidedly NOT muddy, but a clear improvement. It makes one wonder why equipment manufacturers provide these generic cords, but then, who’s going to give away a $300 power cord that the customer might just re-sell for a profit, so, in hindsight, not so strange.
But even without all this folderol, the Yggy is quite the beast! I was happy just reading that it could be turned off for an hour or two and then it regained its magic after another hour or two. Maybe I’ll take it to the local dealer and let him listen to it. Of course, it will be plugged into an ac outlet I have in my car, so it won’t be without power for more than the 30 seconds it takes me to move it from its perch to the car (if I decide to do that).
How long did you find it took for the upper midrange glare to subside? I can hear it mostly on Mercury Living Presence recordings, since their microphones had a peak in the upper midrange and highs, but it’s clearly a bit "hashy" sounding at 156 hours. I hear - from the head-fi.org site - that it’s somewhere around 200 hours that that sound goes away. Did you experience that with your unit?