Hot off the press: Yggdrasil review

No magic in the R2R ladder, just another design. Bill I will have to disagree with your statement. As you know I am building DHT DACs now and previously I was using the ESS Sabre32 Reference (ES9018) DAC chip. It sounded fantastic until we tried the R2R. In our DAC there was no going back. Much more analog, in fact we have been beating most very high priced analog set-ups as we are now out there demonstrating the dac. I also heard I think an early version of the Yggdrasil DAC with CEC 3N transport. I did not find the unit bright sounding but the CEC probably helps in that area. Nice dac maybe for the price but IMO, much left to be desired.

Happy Listening.

Bigkidz,

I agree with you that a R2R DAC is a better sounding solution, have you tried Soekris DAC
Seems very interesting

Good Listening

Peter

yes I have used that in my DHT DAC.

proof is in the listening. R2R may or may not be the best it depends on the total build! Power supply is just as important folks, perhaps more so!

Granny,

Yes indeed Power is key, for both analog and digital, and to my ears R2R is so far the best DAC implementation.

Olympia DX DAC

Unfortunately I find that most spend all their energy on the digital side of the DAC leaving the Analog and associated power supply as an after thought. Above have a BB 1704UK DAC implementation available as either 4 or 8 DAC chip version, ALL FET I/V conversion, ALL FET Analog Filter and a ALL FET output buffer stage CMR noise reduction. IMO as good as it gets :-)

And yes I do make them

Good Listening

Peter