Annoying Yiggy Issue

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7 minutes ago, krelldog said:

I took the Uptone Regen out of the loop....Now its fine....no interruption.

 

 

 

Not sure how old your Yggy is, but if it it has the Gen 5 USB implementation, external "decrapifiers" are redundant - worse really as they are another point of failure.

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6 hours ago, gmgraves said:

Well, it’s not THAT BAD! My Yiggy is certainly a decent DAC. For instance, I’ve never heard a Delta-Sigma DAC that could hold a candle to the Schiit Yggdrasil, and that includes the latest ESS SaberDAC Pro based units. It’s just that the Chord unit works on an entirely different principle with its 49000+ filter taps! CDs, digital files of all bit depths and sample rates resolve details, that I didn’t even know were there! This includes my own recordings which I know intimately, or at least I thought I did.

 

As I understand it, Schiit's multibit design is the same basic design as the Chord  - that is, I closed form, high tap, linear reconstruction.  This is different than the more common SigmaDelta process found in ESS, AKM, TI, etc. chips.

 

The low level detail retrieval of these multi bit designs really does seem to be something that even the good SD chips can't quite match.  All that said as usual the "it's all in the implementation" caveat applies.  Lately I am usually listening to a Gungnir MB, but when I switch back to my iFi IDAC2 (Burr Brown SD) it's not like the delta between them is any more than a few percentage points, and the iFi has the advantage of a warmth/body to the "insides" of notes that the Gungnir does not.  This is probably coloration, but it sounds nice and "natural"...

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5 hours ago, Blake said:

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As a counterpoint to the negative comments- read Chris' review of the Yggy Analog 2.  Chris has heard a DAC or two in his days and he gave the Yggy 2 very high marks.  

 

I understand some of the anti-Schiit sentiment.  I will admit to having a heavy bias against Schiit for a number of years, just because people gushed so much about the original Yggy, it eventually became annoying.  Then my DAC failed and I gave the Yggy 2 a try.  I love it.  But if others don't like it, fine.  My Yggy did sound poor when it was new and cold out of the box, but it dramatically improved over time.

 

Yggy 2 measurements, which, yawn, I have no interest in discussing but others might (yes, from the fanboy site, but Atomic Bob is legit):

 

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/schiit-yggdrasil-v2-upgrade-technical-measurements.5820/

 

 

 

So as those measurements indicate, Schiit fixed/updated the Yggy soon after it came out and Stereophile and others made something (rightly?  wrongly?  I suspect wrongly but who knows) of the crossover glitch?  

 

Today, in May of 2019 a competitor/manufacturer such as @PeterStis still making something of this now fixed issue??  Or is he making something of the current THD and the like?