Pirakaphile
500+ Head-Fier
Or a couple more days to find that one song that will give you the "holy schiit" moment you were looking for...
Or 5 years and a week in my case. Damn my budget!
Or a couple more days to find that one song that will give you the "holy schiit" moment you were looking for...
I am no electrical engineer but for the sake of probing into the question, my hypothesis is that, the issue with R2R it seems is that resistance varies with temperature and thus accuracy of the getting the signal done right in multi bit DACs. S-D designs get around that problem with real life performance of resistors but introduce other problems of their own. The engineering issue is therefore not to get the DAC sufficiently hot (eg the suggestion that you could just heat the thing with a heater) but to achieve thermal stability, ie to get the Yggy at the same temperature constantly, which may require a longer power on period. So while the Yggy doesn't sound bad at all shortly after startup, to achieve its best sound it may require days to stabilise the temperature of the components.
The question I have is therefore is whether one needs days of warm up to achieve thermal stability?
I bet Mike wishes he didn't put a power switch on this thing. His old Thetas don't have them. On all the time.
Does the Yggy sound as good/or better then the MSB Analog??
This is the $2299 question!
They have been around a while now - we want comparisons…...
My borrowed Gen VA sure does… pretty sure it's mandatory to have them…
On my Gen V the analogic section stays warm even if the switch is set to OFF. It effectively needs to be powered off from the mains to achieve that effect.
Guess that proves the point, haha ! Mike wants those babies on 24/7
David
I bet Mike wishes he didn't put a power switch on this thing. His old Thetas don't have them. On all the time.
I am no electrical engineer but for the sake of probing into the question, my hypothesis is that, the issue with R2R it seems is that resistance varies with temperature and thus accuracy of the getting the signal done right in multi bit DACs. S-D designs get around that problem with real life performance of resistors but introduce other problems of their own. The engineering issue is therefore not to get the DAC sufficiently hot (eg the suggestion that you could just heat the thing with a heater) but to achieve thermal stability, ie to get the Yggy at the same temperature constantly, which may require a longer power on period. So while the Yggy doesn't sound bad at all shortly after startup, to achieve its best sound it may require days to stabilise the temperature of the components.
The question I have is therefore is whether one needs days of warm up to achieve thermal stability?
YOU HAVE ARRIVED. NO ONE ELSE BELIEVED ME. BEYOND WORDS. NOTHING ABOUT THE DAC OR HOW IT SOUNDS MATTERS ANYMORE. MY WORK IS DONE. ONLY NEEDED ONE OTHER PERSON TO EXPERIENCE THIS.
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Upthread somebody expressed the desire for an online database of recordings known to have incorrect polarity. I'm happy to mark up my library with metadata and leave it at that. But no OCD auditioning of another hypersubtledigitalminutia setting, please.
Question: can anybody detect the polarity change with headphones? I've only be able to do so with speakers.
I am no electrical engineer but for the sake of probing into the question, my hypothesis is that, the issue with R2R it seems is that resistance varies with temperature and thus accuracy of the getting the signal done right in multi bit DACs. S-D designs get around that problem with real life performance of resistors but introduce other problems of their own. The engineering issue is therefore not to get the DAC sufficiently hot (eg the suggestion that you could just heat the thing with a heater) but to achieve thermal stability, ie to get the Yggy at the same temperature constantly, which may require a longer power on period. So while the Yggy doesn't sound bad at all shortly after startup, to achieve its best sound it may require days to stabilise the temperature of the components.
The question I have is therefore is whether one needs days of warm up to achieve thermal stability?
I am no electrical engineer but for the sake of probing into the question, my hypothesis is that, the issue with R2R it seems is that resistance varies with temperature and thus accuracy of the getting the signal done right in multi bit DACs. S-D designs get around that problem with real life performance of resistors but introduce other problems of their own. The engineering issue is therefore not to get the DAC sufficiently hot (eg the suggestion that you could just heat the thing with a heater) but to achieve thermal stability, ie to get the Yggy at the same temperature constantly, which may require a longer power on period. So while the Yggy doesn't sound bad at all shortly after startup, to achieve its best sound it may require days to stabilise the temperature of the components.
The question I have is therefore is whether one needs days of warm up to achieve thermal stability?
6 7/8 days, to be exact.
Mine was only 5 1/2 days...