I don't quite get it...Yggy is decent, no?
What is it that you don't get?
Yggdrasil is a superlative DAC. It has proven very hard to equal, let alone beat, even against much higher-priced competition. In both relative, and absolute, terms, it's an excellent, musical, capable performer and incredible value.
But I needed another DAC, for another system, and wanted to see (or hear, I guess) what else was out there rather than just buying another Yggdrasil. Variety is nice, and that's where I wound up ... ultimately adding both a new DAC and another Yggdrasil. I consider that quite the endorsement ... in both areas - namely that Yggdrasil comfortably stands against competition that, so far, has ranged all the way up to $28,000 ... more than 10x times Schiit's asking price and that, even when choosing to add something else with a different approach, I still wanted another Yggdrasil in that system.
And even then I had to go in a completely different architectural direction (discrete R2R with linear compensation and NO oversampling) to find something else that was different but that I enjoyed on the same level as Yggdrasil. And the combination of Yggdrasil and the Holo Audio Spring DAC, so far, is the best overall solution I can come up with. And even the combination of those two DACs comes in cheaper than the next closest rival.
Perhaps things will change when I start auditioning the remaining units, including the dCS and MSB offerings, next year, perhaps not.
As it stands, Yggdrasil is far more than "decent", but it's not the only DAC in the world nor the only way to approach D-to-A conversion.