[Byronb]

   
What, you've never had your electrons realigned in your favorite cable?
 
Tsk, tsk.  That's why you have such a veil over your music.

LOL...No doubt I am sure I am missing soooo much of the music. 

 

[gwitzel]

I was watching a YouTube showroom video the other day in which the salesman was advertising some super-expensive tube amp explaining that the micro controller was so good it could protect the amp's fancy fuse in case of a failing tube...

 

[schneller]

Does anyone know if Schiit has considered DAC+Pre based on the Yiggy with of course both SE and balanced XLR outputs?

 

[Trerit]

Does anyone know if Schiit has considered DAC+Pre based on the Yiggy with of course both SE and balanced XLR outputs?

Doubt it. that sounds like a more expensive product that has functions many may not want. schiits all about smart product lineup and avoiding unnecessary cost. I personally don't want an extra knob on my DAC that I wont use for extra money. If I do want that knob for the yggdrasil in the future I would just buy a freya and be happy

 

[AndreYew]

  I have a question about Freya and balanced interconnects.
 
Tubes generally have some noise and sometime cause some low level hum.  If I run balanced cables to my Bryston 3BSST, the summer on the Bryston inputs seems to eliminate the noise/hum.
 
But, somehow, the summer on the single ended output of the Freya does not eliminate the same noise/hum.  If I connect the power amp with single ended cables, I hear the noise/hum.
 
Why?  Wouldn't a summer at either location perform the same function to kill the noise?
 
I'm using quality Blue Jeans cables.

That's probably a ground loop problem. On SE connections, the signal ground and cable shield are often tied together, so you can get ground loops. A balanced cable has its shield separate from its signal ground, so no ground loop. That's the simple answer and there are often more complicated things but that's the basic idea.

 

[darkarn]

  Yikes.
 
I just made the mistake of following a banner ad down the rabbit hole to current "enthusiast" audiophile websites where a $12,000 phono stage is considered an entry-level bargain and someone was using reel-to-reel as his "most revealing" source for reviewing, except he just replaced a component and had to send his interconnects back to the factory to be recalibrated.
 
We may go careening off into the rough now and again here on this thread, but it's a haven of sanity compared to what's out there.
.

 
Dang, we need something to calibrate the airwaves around us next for perfect audio reproduction bwahahahaha!

 

[watchnerd]

   
Dang, we need something to calibrate the airwaves around us next for perfect audio reproduction bwahahahaha!

 
Bong smoke.

 

[aamefford]

Bong smoke.

Those days are looooooooooooooong past for me. Some times I really miss them...

 

[Armaegis]

Those days are looooooooooooooong past for me. Some times I really miss them...

 
Kids these days are just gonna vape instead...

 

[valiant66]

Hmm.
 
Interesting article in Stereophile by the founder of Head Room on the future of headphones.
 
http://www.stereophile.com/content/headphones-come#jF4YdT0v0FgB4ckx.97
.

 

[438555]

Hmm.

Interesting article in Stereophile by the founder of Head Room on the future of headphones.

http://www.stereophile.com/content/headphones-come#jF4YdT0v0FgB4ckx.97
.

Yeah I've probably been chasing the headphone that will rival my living room speaker setup without breaking the bank for a while

 

[darkarn]

   
Bong smoke.

 
Way too illegal in Singapore though LOL

 

[wink]

Quoteana Reed

 Yeah I've probably been chasing the headphone that will rival my living room speaker setup without breaking the bank for a while

 
... and then, you will try not to break the bank again when you look for some speakers to rival your new headphones......

 

[franzdom]

   
Way too illegal in Singapore though LOL

 
Nobody said the quest for audio perfection would be cheap or easy 

 

[Mr Rick]

Those days are looooooooooooooong past for me. Some times I really miss them...

 
At least you can remember them.