Check here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hd800s+measurements   No sarcasm intended btw

  Canada Post has been really good this holiday season.  I've had stuff delivered on Sunday for the past three weeks. Fingers crossed indeed.

For your needs a UERR is ideal though they don't have an extra large soundstage.     Also, assuming they sound the same as UERM but with more extension they will also be among the best sounding personal transducers available at any cost.  ...

I agree, venue is good.     Nice space: good facilities, lots of room, plenty of chairs/tables and easy access to power via the floor sockets.  Pretty much everything you need.

Tried the wifi but gave up on it really fast.  I ended up setting my phone up as a hotspot so people could stream whatever they wanted from iTunes on my laptop.   I'm pretty sure the iPhone can do multiple clients and I'm cool with sharing (I have a 6GB data plan) as long as people use it for...

Try feeding Yggy from a source which is not your Win10 computer.

The 4 pin thing is a balanced headphone output.  Your LCD-3 came with a balanced cable, check in the case.  For your other phones you can use the single ended (1/4" TRS) output or get a balanced cable made.  I would suggest eventually getting a balanced cable for your favourites; due to the amp...

Haven't used it as a speaker amp yet.  The Event Opals are active studio monitors (amplification is built into the speaker) so the Rok behaves as a very expensive analog volume control (aka: pre-amp ;)) while the speakers are playing.   For fun I've been thinking of dragging it into the living...

  I think it's because with speakers you finally get to hear just how good the Ygg is at imaging/soundstage as well as timbre/tonality.  I love using it with my Event Opals (via Ragnarok).

  You'll be fine unless you get lengthy black/brownouts on a consistent basis.  Takes ~45-60 minutes off time for Yggy to revert to square one and then depending on lifetime "on hours" it takes anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days to get back to optimal.     From experience (back and...

Should have mentioned it but I already did that with replaygain in foobar which gave: Master 11 +1.72dB Rag/Ygg +3.46dB Orpheus +0.27dB   Rag/Ygg was the quietest of the three. 

Downloaded the samples and did a quick listen at work from my laptop with RE-600 IEM.   I am biased since I own Rag/Ygg (+LCD-3F) however I find the Master 11 waaaay too dark and with an artificial midbass exaggeration to boot.  Tone/timbre on Rag/Ygg is also better.  The Orpheus has a...

Yes there are plenty of inexpensive USB options outside of the external drive offered by Apple.   Here is the one I use with my MBP: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135256   I haven't tried DVD burning but on my mid 2014 MBP it does CD read/write and DVD read with...

  Volume knob position is material dependent.  Stuff that has never seen a compressor tends to be higher, modern loudness war masters will be lower.  Usually I'm listening to the former.  Hearing is still good to 17K and change.

I use the middle setting with the volume dial typically around 2PM. Lowest gain I find the transients a bit mushy, while on the highest they are too agressive.  Balanced input from Yggdrasil and balanced output as the balanced HP out on Ragnarok is superior to the SE.

I'm in of course.   This time I will remember to bring music from my NAS on a USB stick as opposed to what I have on my laptop which is mostly just my DJ stuff.  I have a big assortment of my own high quality needledrops which make for great listening.  Lots and lots of Latin stuff (that's...

AFAIK from reading the "Schiit Happened" thread sometimes Schiit does get a black chassis for whatever reason.  Would love to see a pic.   Anyhow, for giggles I A/Bd Yggdrasil vs the unknown (and sureley $$$ cheap as ***) 24/96 DAC in my AKAI AMX DJ controller.  Not even close.  Tonality...

I'll be supplying the Yggdrasil/Ragnarok stack so obviously I'm in.   Should be fun. :)   Thinking of switching it up from my LCD-3F so would really like to audition any of LCD-X, HD800, HD650, TH900, PM-3 and HE1K if anyone owns a pair and can bring them.

IMO the primary strength of  Yggy on headphones is that it is unbelievably resolving but it does this naturally and without shoving the mids in your face.  Bass quality with Yggdrasil is also incredible; one of it's strengths.

Yes, all outs (speaker, balanced, SE) except headphone should be disabled in "headphone only" mode.    You should hear a relay click when you hold down the input select button (far left) for a few seconds which indicates a change between the three modes.  Suggest doing it with volume turned...

(Due to planned power outages) I've done the Yggdrasil warm up thing twice now with listening notes...  Yes, it really takes ~3-4 days (for my Yggdrasil) to get to a mostly optimal state running signal through it 24/7.    No, I don't have a good explanation or root cause beyond some hand...

That's a very good idea.  I should have tried pulling the cable first.   Pulling the USB cable will force a full reset of the PHY and USB driver which might sort things out.  (bonus; it only takes a second or two)

I have had the USB connection bug out when I switch back and forth between various sound applications using the DAC.   I think it's the OS sound or USB stack (OSX 10) getting FUBAR because a reboot fixes it. Thankfully it's not a regular thing and it has never happened while only using a...

  It does get quite warm but definitely nothing nearing burning hot.  You can still put your hand on the top or sides for an extended amount of time.  The bottom left under the transformers is the hottest part; I'm not sure if you could put your hand there for an extended period but even that...

My Yggdrasil was off for at least an hour when they cut power to the building last Thursday for maintenance stuff.  I can confirm it goes back to square 1.  It takes about 72 hours for it to get back to sounding really good which was the same as first power up. Some more days from there to get...