Schiit Yggdrasil Less is More, is it a quality dac ?

Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated.

oldrooney. Can I ask if you have used both the balanced and the rca outputs and if you hear any difference in quality between the two?

I like that it has 2 rca outputs (not something you see normally) makes it easy to connect a headphone amp.

My Primare Dac30 is a clean sounding dac with okey resolution and a firm bass, but I think it could be improved upon, I don’t want a too warm sounding dac as I run tube pre and a class A amp that was designed to sound more like a tube amp, so it could get to muddy I think very fast, my LS 5/9 are monitor speakers with the famous bbc bump, but otherwise a very neutral speaker.

Also that the Schiit can be upgraded later on is appealing.

Would be nice if I could demo the r26, Pontus and Less Is More side by side, but unfortunately that is not possible.

If anyone else has heard some of these dac’s, feel free to comment.

I never heard Schiit Yggdrasil but I owned Pontus-2 and construction vise Pontus looks much more serious DAC too me. Huge toroidal PSs placed in separate compartment is big advantage.

The Yggy can't be matched at twice the price, IMO.  I've owned the OG model for >2 years.  Can't comment on the Less is More model.

My system stomps many of my fellow audio club members at a fraction of their investment.

TEAC NT-505x is worthy of your consideration in that price range.

Preferred it to my Yggdrasil A2 in my home system.

The Yggy can’t be matched at twice the price, IMO.

based on my own experience with the yggy and numerous others (roughly 40 dacs since early 2021), i don’t agree with this statement

three dacs come to mind readily that to my ear, in my system, outperform the yggy in overall musicality, prat, imaging, and top to bottom cohesiveness

mhdt orchid (esp, w grannyring mods), but also in stock form ($1600 modded)

denafrips pontus ($1700)

cambridge cxn v2, with dan wright’s brilliant tube output stage mods ($2400 modded)

to be sure, different systems benefit from dacs with different sonic presentations, but based on my own listening and owning various dacs, i wanted to offer this contrasting point of view to the bold statement set forth above