DENAFRIPS Terminator and Schiit Yggdrasil Evaluation and Comparison

Reggy the reason we are going to get a sample of the Ifi DSD pro is that it is being compared to really expensive dacs, Herb compared it to a $7k dac and the Six Moons reviewer compared it to a $28k Lampizator Golden Gate Dac and a few other mega expensive dacs and the little Ifi DAC held its own very very well.


https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/ifi/4/

The Ifi DSD pro use an FPGA combined with four burr brown dacs in an inter leaved fashion which enables very high sampling rates.

The FPGA allows for feature upgrades via firmware as MQA is also being added.

The fact that in this one product you get a great dac, heaphone amp, streamer and a tube output stage with volume control makes for a very attractive package for $2,500.00

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ

I have an iFi iDSD PRO and will be writing an in-depth review soon. I compare it to my AMR DP-777se, the AMR CD 77.1 (hot-rod’d with a TDA 1541 double crown dac chip, Jupiter Copper Foil Paper in Wax output caps and Bendix 6900 output tubes), the iFi iDSD BL, and an old-school Museatex Bidat (still one of the best) thrown in for fun. I own all of he dacs mentioned except for the iDSD PRO. I’m also going to compare it to the latest PS Audio Direct Stream.

I will say that the PRO is impressive and what it does with DSD has shown me first hand just how superior DSD can sound (I have about 700 DSD albums) when it is not converted to PCM although at 705khz it remains close to how untouched DSD sounds.

big price difference 

Upgradability should be a consideration between the Terminator and the Yggy. The Terminator is a mature product without a true hardware upgrade pathway. The Yggy is a modular design that permits hardware upgrades when better receiver chips Analog Devices Multibit chips, and other digital or physical hardware becomes available. 

Hey everyone, just curious what you guys thin of Marv/Purr1n's take on the terminator on S-BAF.

He actually at one point states that the Soekris 1421 dac for $900 is better which clearly shows terminator lacks value. On my discord some users only really value Marv's opinion and feel that all other online opinions about the terminator that are positive are wrong and written by people who don't understand audio.

Now I am not trying to start any confrontation here, I own the terminator, but just curious what you guys think.