Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar

Ha Ha!  "cheaper than the sales tax on many power cables"

BTW the heading should read 

" Yggdrasil into Freya into Vidar"

Cheers George

also even if ya dont know jack S
the book is a great read

I am all for the latest round of Giant-killer DACs. I think it is wonderful that the kind of performance that only Meitner and a few select offered over 15 years ago is now quite widely available in $2000 range. Technological progress and competition is wonderful.

That said, I take JA of stereophile's comments as a serious concern with regard to the Yggdrasil. You can find other DACs in this price range that Stereophile has given a much cleaner "medical health checkup"!

Quote Stereophile:
"It's difficult to sum up the Schiit Yggdrasil's measured behavior. While the processor's analog circuitry is superbly well designed, its digital circuitry appears to have problems with high-level, high-frequency tones, and with the LSBs of 24-bit data. It's possible, of course, that the former will be rare with music, and that the latter will be obscured by the noise floors of recordings. But it does look as if the digital circuitry is not fully optimized. Hopefully, this could be addressed with a firmware upgrade.—John Atkinson
Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/schiit-audio-yggdrasil-da-processor-measurements#lvfQgKsUQg5tp3S...