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| Schiit Yggdrasil or Bryston BDA-2 opinions to help me choose! Sorry, Bill, I have to disagree. I had a Genesis Digital Lens back in 1995, before that, a DAC whose name i forget, then Bryston, ARC of recent vintage, Oppo 105, and now Yggdrasil. I think the room acoustics can swamp the differences, but my room... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil or Bryston BDA-2 opinions to help me choose! Yes. The BDA-2 is great, but slightly "clinical-sounding). The Yggdrasil is akin to sitting 6th row center in Carnegie Hall (close up, so the imaging is quite good, and the stage is quite wide (I saw a review that said the Yggdrasil had a 'narrow ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Thanks, David. I just saw your response, but answered my own question earlier, right after I posed the question on here, by putting in an old ESP cord, circa 1995. I only wanted to change one thing at a time, or I’d have put the Shunyata Zitron Py... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? A question for Yggdrasil owners: do you still use the stock power cord provided with the unit or have you substituted another cord? | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? David, I agree. Anecdotally, last night, I had friend over who ONLY LISTENS to the Chicago Orchestra’s Scheherazade. ONLY. He replied, upon prompting, "I think it sounds pretty good." I said, "We’ll listen tomorrow morning and we went to sleep.We ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Czarivey, To answer your question of "name me one musician who likes Wilson speakers, Peter Poltun of the Vienna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist Wilfried Hedenborg and numerous others. Don't comment on things you know nothing about. Wils... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? David and dhal:I think it will be at least a week before I can discern how closely the Yggdrasil approaches the sound of live music. Mine arrived earlier than I expected: when I checked the tracking, it had already been routed to the local Fed Ex ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil As long as you have a transport for the music, and can plug it into the Yggdrasil and then plug the Yggdrasil's RCA outputs into your Grace preamplifier's CD or Auxiliary input OR the balanced Yggdrasil outputs into your Grace balanced inputs, the... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? I remember reading Martin Colloms’ testing of the Jadis JA-200. Tested TERRIBLE on the bench, but magical in my system. I DO agree that maybe it helps those with technical knowledge, although I've seen people sneer about things they've never heard... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I wouldn’t bet the farm on that observation, bc.I’ve had many components that did not display their true character until nearly a month. Nordost’s interconnects typically take several weeks to mature into their full sound. I well remember the Frey... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? It’s interesting that so much of the time, people look at the specifications. A spec willl tell you absolutely nothing about how something might sound. (Moffatt was one of the designers on the old Theta, which, in its day, was lauded at "THE digit... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? I suppose you’re overlooking that Atkinson NEVER played the Yggdrasil to hear what it actually sounded like.Solid state used to have ’perfect measurements,’ but it sounded crappy. I just listen: and I hear (and play) instruments a LOT, so I don’t ... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? inna: my experience is that the electricity can be good, but if your components are vibrating, you will lose the musical lines in a symphony or anything else. I have tried nearly everyone’s isolation feet: Up until a few months ago, I used Nordost... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? I’ll have to come at this question in reverse.When I discovered High End equipment in 1985, I started out with an AR turntable and Spica speakers. Jumped from Spicas to Apogees. Jumped from Apogees to WATTs. In the space of 1985 to 1988, I jumped ... | |
| Graphene in fuses and cost I just went back to when I first became aware of fuses. There are more recent ones. And, post 2012, since there are several generations of Synergistic fuses, and I’ve owned every one of them and commented on them. But really, it’s irrelevant. I’m ... |