This podcast/radio program is an excellent and entertaining 33 minute overview of temperament. Features an interview with the author of a book on equal temperament and some good audio examples.    http://www.betweenthelinernotes.com/episodes-1/2015/9/1/02-the-tuning-wars     I enjoy...

While this was a very small meet, I had a good time. Lots of new gear to listen to and good conversation. Looking forward to the next time. Thanks for putting it together, Darko.

  ....No. Watch it three more times and really listen.

  Right. I hope to see standard transient measurements sometime soon. The discussion around the Yggdrasil and it's filter reminds me of similar discussions over tons of feedback to get super-low distortion vs. minimal or no feedback and less perfect measurements. For the uninitiated...

Keith, I'm with you. I'm a big hi-res fan and while I do think 24/96 is plenty it's up to hardware and software makers to make sure that 192 support is just fine. Though I really hope we don't get even bigger file formats. I don't take that Lavry paper as gospel at all, just offering a...

Keith, if it helps: http://www.head-fi.org/t/764787/yggdrasil-technical-measurements

  44.1/2=22.05. Add in some wiggle room for filtering and whatnot and you get up to about 20kHz (20,000Hz) pretty reliably. Of course, I'd love to see a test where you demonstrate that you can hear differences ±0.1dB at 20kHz.   The highest sample rate I've ever seen (for PCM) is 384kHz, and...

http://seanolive.blogspot.com/ Enjoy.

Your computer was reading the CD layer. SACDs (which are encoded as DSD) can only be played in authorized SACD players and ripped by early PS3s. So yes, of course the files you got were 16/44.1.

I think a lot of people's impressions are it has very impressive specs on paper but ultimately isn't very involving or "musical" in timbre. I haven't heard it myself but I'm sure someone will pipe up.

  Looking forward to the next post from Jason or Mike.

If they built a prototype and thought it didn't sound any different do you think they'd waste their time and money on building a super-complex high end product with a small market? Especially as a company who is hugely dependent on word-of-mouth/street cred?

Well if it's any comfort, look what is shipping. http://www.schiit.com/products/ragnarok

  Yep. To paraphrase a million different aphorisms: Quality, Options, Price. If you're lucky, you can pick two. All three and it's probably too good to be true.

Well that's a damn shame. I hope we get there.