Thank you again for reply!
What about body? I have read on audiostream.com that Musette can sound thin. I like my music to sound “full” and not as “shelled” music. Which DAC is more suitable for music like “radiohead” ? Or do you think that it is worth to save up for Yggdrasil? I will be using it only with speakers and not headphones, will there will be difference in your recommendation in this scenario?
Did you ever see the movie Immortal Beloved? Fictional or not, there's was a great line in that film where Beethoven is explaining the meaning of music to the gentleman, who would later in the story take over the settlement of his estate after his death - in the fiction, Beethoven was not a loved man. But this man was as close a friend as he could have, and was changed in the moment Beethoven explained this to him, shown in the first quote from IMDb, linked below:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110116/quotes
You should read the full quote there. But the key point of it lies in the words:
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism. So, now... What was in my mind when I wrote this? Hmm? A man is trying to reach his lover. His carriage has broken down in the rain. The wheels stuck in the mud. She will only wait so long. This... is the sound of his agitation. "This is how it is... ," the music is saying. "Not how you are used to being. Not how you are used to thinking. But like this."
I've started to read a few negative reviews of the Yggdrasil - and I suspect the reason is thus. The Yggdrasil does not suggest music - it is music. That is, as the quote says above, if the music is angst, tension, and agitation, the listener does not think about this - the listener is psycho-acoustically transported into this state of mind. The Yggdrasil is unrelenting in its possession of you while you are listening to it.
Is this a good thing - sometimes.
I justified the purchase of the Yggdrasil by putting it into a stereo system. If you don't understand, stereo systems of the caliber of a Yggdrasil and Ragnarok stack tend to add another decimal place to the price. The stack, when used in a high end speaker system, is a relative bargain. Yet when I find myself listening to a piece of music, such as the cries of the millions of lost souls in World War II represented by the period piece Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, I find my emotions spent. Even recalling the moment wisps me back to a recollection of terrible, terrible pain. I often listen to the Yggdrasil and state, out loud, music should not have this power - it should not have such a direct to nervous system connection, simply by sending waves out across the air.
Now if this sounds interesting, or what you would want to listen to day-in-day-out, Yggdrasil may be for you! (I can only imagine how exhausted I would be after listening to Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead. I probably would not be able to listen to music of any kind for the next few hours.) So I personally listen to a Gungnir Multibit in my headphone system, and I can listen to that for many hours, without such an often exhaustive, emotional connection to the music. I just enjoy it!
And per your first question - neither DAC is thin, but Gungnir Multibit has more body.
