Article: Review | Schiit’s latest Yggdrasil Incarnation

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6 hours ago, JoeWhip said:

The labeling is a non issue for me. The button on the left changes polarity. The button in the middle toggles between inputs. If the Yggy senses a signal on any input you know. Seems easy to me and keeps down the cost.

Well, no it doesn’t cut down on cost. The inputs ARE labeled and labels, big or small wouldn’t affect costs one way or another. These labels are just so tiny (not to mention cryptic) that they can’t even be seen, much less read from across the room.

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4 hours ago, Bill Brown said:

George, thank you for the great review.  Makes me wish I could hear one.

 

I can't resist noting that is a pretty fancy USB cable for a cable non-believer :)

 

Bill

Well, I didn’t buy it, if that’s what you’re getting at 🥴. It belongs to a friend who hasn’t retrieved it. It was in my personal (older) Yggy setup, so I simply swapped the already connected cables from my Yggy to the review sample. Difference between my own “printer cable” quality USB cable and the AQ Diamond? None that I can detect.

But if you wish you could hear one of the “B” S# Yggdrasils, stay tuned. I have a DAC in-house now that is not only significantly cheaper than the Yggy but blows it and literally every other DAC under $20,000 that I’ve ever encountered clear out of the water! Review coming soon!

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50 minutes ago, rlow said:

I have a Yggdrasil Analog 2 with Unison USB, as well as a SoTM SMS-200ultra Neo, and previously had the non-Neo version as well with Unison, and both worked perfectly with no issues.

It’s the OS version, not the hardware. If your Windows machine runs Win10, Unison USB will work fine. I have a Toshiba Celeron based laptop from about 2010. With Win7. The new Yiggy USB won’t work and no driver download would make it work. But when I recently upgraded it to Win10, Slow as that computer now is, the Yiggy now works fine with it.

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6 hours ago, opus101 said:

I can't wait to hear about that DAC George!

 

Btw - according to comments on my blog, Yggy started shipping in 2015, not 2017 as you've stated here.

Hmm, the tech guy at Schiit, gave me the year 2017. But I guess anybody can err.

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6 hours ago, Rexp said:

For reference, what is the best DAC you ever heard? 

Well, a month ago I would have said the dCS Vivaldi. But I have something that’s better, now, and much less expensive. Stay tuned, O.K.?

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On 11/3/2020 at 11:40 AM, Chorus said:

Good afternoon Mr. Graves.

 

When will you be announcing this new world beating DAC?

 

Thanks

 

I’m writing the review now. Of course, I have no control over when Chris posts the review.