Elliott Leishman said:
nopiano said:
Here are 147 posts to be getting on with....
https://www.whathifi.com/forum/hi-fi/schiit-yggdrassil-dac
As for favourite products, you'll notice regular posters have their favourites too. I think WHF is a bit like the BBC - if they are accused of bias by both or various sides, it probably means they are about right overall! In the home UK market, Cambridge have long offered good or better products with modest prices. That's bound to find favour.
Thanks! shame it goes so off topic in that link.
I'm also surprised that yggdasril is maxed out at 19bit guess it's more the sound than anything but give it a few years and I guess it will be outdated very quickly
It is very easy to get carried away with all the talk of 24 bit this and 32bit that that it becomes quite easy to to lose track of reality.
The most important thing to understand is the difference between a system or a components processing capability and a setups resolution.
So if a component can resolve 19bits, what does that mean? Put simply it means that the component can resolve a signal that is 114dB below full output, that is tiny. Given that even the best recordings have no relevant signal lower than 40 or 50dB below full output this is really just a measure of how well a component can resolve noise.
Some years ago, in conjunction with a company I was working with, we set out to measure the real world resolution of their top of the line ($8,000 +)digital to analog converter, which under lab conditions was able to resolve 21bits, the same as claimed by the Yggdrasil. In a normal (hi-end) system at home or in the showroom this typically reduced to 19bits.
To give context, we tested several good integrated players in our system and found that most gave around 17 bits of resolution and when we tested a decent budget system in a showroom environment, it was unable to resolve even the 16 bits present on the cd.
The point of this is simply that bit depth is really not the most important issue when it comes to the assessment of digital playback, even the highest resolution recordings, whether 24/192, DSD or whatever will still be limited by the resolution of the system.
The worth or otherwise of the Yggdrasil dac should be evaluated using factors far more important than its maximum resolution.