(1) I agree with the characterization Jason says his resident engineers came up to. It is another digital volume control scheme. This is not a diss, it’s just what it is. (2) The white paper is short on details - btw, the AES paper is actually here...

Greetings from the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. of A.! Without a doubt, I’d listen to Peter Gabriel’s So in its entirety (the 2002 remaster). Carefully crafted, timeless, with many sonic innovations including shoving a diaper under the bridge in Tony Levin’s bass to create that muted “Don’t...

You gotta Gungnir that Schiit! :-)

I’ve “neglected to return” a friend’s MJ3 for over a month now. It does wonders with a Gungnir MB and DCA Stealth, and perhaps unsuprisingly it preamps my desktop Genelecs nicely as well. I think I ordered my second-run silver the day it was announced, so anytime soon. Should it stay in...

Impression after a few months of bliss. Yggdrassil A2 + MHA200 + Focal Utopia’22 was a magic combo for me. Unusual, since I always feel no headphone set does Yggy justice. The MHA200 is super opinionated about music placement - it puts the mids very forward, so there is a bit of a 3D “V”...

I preamp the FV out of a Rag2 out of convenience. Works great. Tried MJ3 out of curiosity. Other than warming up the room, nothing to write home about.

Hard to say. The OG in my big rig it’s DAC endgame, so I never bothered trying others. People whose ears I trust and tried both agree LIM is a little warmer and that’s about it.

Hey, how about we ask an AI to show us “what if they had written this in 1964 when they were young?”

Remember the group broke up before they were 30 years old - and this is John, in his late 30s, in New York , with two lifetimes worth of experiences behind him… … and two 80 year olds are going by notes they made when they were 50…

Put the track through the MHA200 which is super mid forward. Yggy OG, HD600. Pretty glorious. Love me do, oh my. So good.

One thing to note is that John sounds “normal”, so, not like in the bulk of the catalog. He used to thicken things with multitrack and stuff. In the documentary Paul seems to confirm the strings and the slide solo are new. The drums, Paul’s bass, and the piano in the track are re-recorded from...

Controversial? why? Martin and Jackson showed us a few miracles with the re-release of revolver, being able to use machine learning to separate information from the same track and enabling Martin to work on a remix. Those familiar with his work can probably attest The Beatles sound like...

It is not - if I have another pre-2021 LCD-X to list, I will reopen.

Respectfully disagree with the vendor. (1) you could use the FV’s impedance multiplier if that were the issue, but perhaps more relevant: (2) Grados are low impedance and synergize really well with FV. It’s not just the impedance.

Cheap is not free, and recabling a large system just because Is wasteful — hence the hesitation.

A little nervous if I have to purchase new cables, tbh. Added as an option, cool. As the only option, may take a while to see the value in the jump.

SKOLL!!!!!

Focusing on measuring one point far past the listening area and extrapolating said measurement to the entire regime of the device to summarize its performance is a stretch. At the end of the day, people like what they like. I will say I do dislike responses of the form “You’re wrong about X...

Please be a Gungnir-sized diff buffer balanced out phono preamp with MI/MC/MM switches and front knobs for load selection and mono mode and curve selection with 4 gain modes in silver with or without tubes for $1499 or less…

Well, it depends on what you’re looking for :wink: Some folks prefer Modi Multibit 2 to, say, Bifrost 2/64. If you don’t need balanced output, MM2 may be the best for you.

Stick with the pads a few weeks and don’t swap - otherwise you’ll develop some audio nerviosa. For best results with these cans, use a beefy amp (such as jotunheim).

Yes - I find the two-notch white pad to be the best for me.

Goldpoint splitter for the XLR?

Ah cool! :frowning2: But hey, the roadmap implied by Kara keeps the future looking good :D

I’d be surprised if you pick up all the Yggy goodness with headphones - but definitely curious! Glad to read early impressions are positive