So here is a synopsis of what is happening with the Yggy product development. I must preface everything I have to say with a few sentences. Some of them are repetitive and stated with no intentions of sounding patronizing. The Yggy is not a scheduled product release. There will be no 2015 Yggy, etc., etc. It is a goal oriented design release. All Schiit products are goal oriented. Because the Yggy is a loftier design goal than, say, a Modi, there are many more variables and substeps involved. There are thousands of parts manufactured by dozens of companies which make up a Yggy. This means we are subject to the time dependencies of dozens of other companies. Since that involves people who are not our employees we are then reduced to soft science at the very best to predict time. Please understand that we do not lay awake at night wondering how to delay our products – we want them done as much as you do. I will not reduce my goal oriented design to a scheduled product release. For emphasis: Designing an audio product (goal oriented) is like scr****g a gorilla. You are not finished until the gorilla is.
The Yggy has seven (7!) internal circuit boards. They are all unique to Yggy. They are all on their second revision. They all fit together, are hooked up properly together, and actually fit in the chassis that Jason has so elegantly designed to match the rest of our line. There will be a third revision of 6 of the seven boards to fix things like hole sizes, parts too close together, wrong parts footprints, etc. The hardware is working. To fix the board errors is 30-40 man hours (me). I won't get to that until after RMAF in case anything else raises its head. Hopefully after the third rev of the boards is done, I'll be finished. Maybe not. Just have to wait and see. The DSP software, which has to reboot every time a sample rate changes, occasionally gets lost. The button display software needs to more checked for bugs (for example, what happens when the unit is turned on when the input button is held down). This is Dave waiting for the gorilla to finish. The parts have not all been checked for lead-time yet, as there is a very remote chance some of them will change. That said, most of them have some quantity in stock somewhere.
What are the technical design goals? Preserve all of the original samples of the source data. To oversample, insert time and frequency domain optimized samples between the original preserved samples. Convert the signal back to analog at full bit width with no delta sigma reduced bit width, no added noise to be partially filtered out later, or stupid meaningless bullschiit claimed bit specs (32 bit – yeah, right). Let me finish off with an anecdote referring to aesthetic goals:
My wife loves rock and roll, with Supertramps' Crime of the Century album among her favorites, so much so that she wants it played at her funeral. She has no idea of analog, digital, tubes, transistors, bits, bytes, cans, speakers. She has no hardware prerequisites over which to play her music, she only does so for pleasure. She is subconsciously and emotionally attached to her music. When I play her that music through headphones attached straight to a MacMini, she sits, listens, and nods. When I substitute a Beef (Bifrost) and Val2, she dances around. When I remove the Beef and insert the Yggy (don't have a Raggy yet), she cries.
Please stay tuned.
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