[dglow]

Originally Posted by Exacoustatowner /img/forum/go_quote.gif
 
...which can affect the carpet's sound and make the music play backwards!

 
It doesn't play the music backwards, just inverts the polarity...  

 

 

[metaldood]

  I've hijacked @IndieGradoFan's last post to make a Schiit Yggdrasil Impressions thread.

Great! Possible to modify the Thread title to reflect that? 

 

[Currawong]

One better: I've put in a suggestion that we have in-thread stickies that appear at the top of every page of posts for putting that kind of info. 

 

[David Aldrich]

Whatever you do, don't put an old Windows XP install disc in a CD player and use the inversion function.

 

[johnjen]

   
It doesn't play the music backwards, just inverts the polarity...  

 

And on a random basis… 

 
JJ

 

[Exacoustatowner]

It doesn't play the music backwards, just inverts the polarity...    

Ah it plays UPSIDE down!

 

[dglow]

 

It doesn't play the music backwards, just inverts the polarity...  

 

Ah it plays UPSIDE down!

Yes – the last six tracks of the disc play, followed by the first five... with a 33s break in-between.

 

[NZtechfreak]

One better: I've put in a suggestion that we have in-thread stickies that appear at the top of every page of posts for putting that kind of info. 

Ha, excellent! I made a similar suggestion recently after posting the same information on a thread for the third time.

 

[jfoxvol]

I have had my Yggdrasil on, warming up for over 176 hours and I am in awe. I have never heard Frank Zappa's " One Size Fits All" sound so real, so transparent, so natural. I had the good fortune to hear Zappa play twice, and listening to this CD makes me feel I am hearing him live. The sound stage is perfectly holographic, I can perceive the instruments and where they placed. The bass, midds and treble are so textured, and detailed, but the sound signature does not become analytical or grainy. The sound never looses its musical, lush like smoothness. The musicality of the sound is intoxicating. I feel like Odysseus being tempted by the harpies, to listen to the music, to the moment of magical synergy, till I become faint from exhaustion. I am extremely happy with my Yggy/ Rag combination. The only way my yggy will ever be turned off, is during a power outage.
P.s. I am getting goosebumps from the music.

That will be my first album to spin with the new setup.  The remastered CD is stellar.  With my Gungnir, it's amazing.  With another step up in D/A, I'm excited to hear.

 

[catspaw]

Anyone has used the Yggy for gaming after the 160H burn in mark?

 

[Pirakaphile]

Anyone has used the Yggy for gaming after the 160H burn in mark?

Wonder if games even have the audio quality for it to matter..

 

[catspaw]

Wonder if games even have the audio quality for it to matter..

Some should, like mass effect 2, dead space 1 or Crysis 1.

 

[Pirakaphile]

Some should, like mass effect 2, dead space 1 or Crysis 1.

I wonder if the audio is CD quality though, or if they compress it a whole lot to make space for graphics.

 

[yage]

 
I thought the '20-bit' figure was about effective, measurable resolution, not the data format. For all we know the chip may accept 24- or even 32-bit samples.

 
The data sheet says 20-bit data words. The input shift register is 24 bits wide but 4 of those bits are used for addressing and indicating read/write operation.
 
I'd be interested to know more about how Yggdrasil preserves the original samples in the case of a 24-bit sample size.

 

[maeveth]

I wonder if the audio is CD quality though, or if they compress it a whole lot to make space for graphics.

Most games use mp3 or ogg for audio, pretty compressed. The real challenge is that its not playing back the raw files.

When say somebody shoots at you you will hear it coming from wherever your enemy is. They do this by doing post processing on the sound so that it is positional. To do this in real time they must make certain sacrifices when designing the engine.

Games do many times sound very good but are a poor comparison to true HiFi tracks.

Different goals though - sort of how we talk about imaging with stereo but its less of a focus when you talk about surround.