[Delayeed]

Just got mine from a great Head-Fi user. Gotta say it's very good sounding from the Mojo as a DAC! With Ether Cs the soundstage got noticeably bigger surpassing my HD600.
Heard few new sounds I haven't heard before in a couple of tracks that I've listened to countless times with the same / even louder volumes. Stock tubes sound kind of slow and midrangy.

I like the Siemens E88CCs though. Kind of a V shaped signature and some sounds sound like they are coming from behind you because the imaging and layering is just so good.
This is all single-ended but a balanced cable is coming... Can't wait for even more improvement )

To add: I didn't like the HD600s from the MJ2 anymore than just off the Mojo tbh...
The treble/midrange peak is just annoying so will probly sell them as I really have no use for them anymore.

 

[Argo Duck]

No dust on my black yggy. No cobwebs either

 

[Naugrim]

Just got an email about my ordered Yggdrasil ... it will be another two weeks or if I replied they had a black one available to send instead...

I'll stick with the silver to match what I have now plus the black might tend to absorb a bit more heat and show more dust.

I do not think I'll regret the decision much

much

 

[TK16]

  Just got mine from a great Head-Fi user. Gotta say it's very good sounding from the Mojo as a DAC! With Ether Cs the soundstage got noticeably bigger surpassing my HD600.
Heard few new sounds I haven't heard before in a couple of tracks that I've listened to countless times with the same / even louder volumes. Stock tubes sound kind of slow and midrangy.

I like the Siemens E88CCs though. Kind of a V shaped signature and some sounds sound like they are coming from behind you because the imaging and layering is just so good.
This is all single-ended but a balanced cable is coming... Can't wait for even more improvement )

To add: I didn't like the HD600s from the MJ2 anymore than just off the Mojo tbh...
The treble/midrange peak is just annoying so will probly sell them as I really have no use for them anymore.

It`s good your auditioning SE now, you will hear the improvements with balanced vs SE. I have not tried SE yet.

 

[Thenazgul]

Just a quick question. The Preamp Balanced XLR outs are Analog only right?  (NOT AES DIGITAL).

 

[winders]

  Just a quick question. The Preamp Balanced XLR outs are Analog only right?  (NOT AES DIGITAL).

Digital ends at the input of Yggdrasil......

 

[Thenazgul]

 
Digital ends at the input of Yggdrasil......

That's what I thought. The very expensive amps sometimes have AES XLR out (which is backwards compatible to analog, same with the cables. The speakers I plan to buy, have both inputs. Analog XLR and Digital XLR/AES.  Thank you for verifying it. Guess I could use the same type of Analog interconnects for the speakers as between dac and amp then : http://www.qed.co.uk/analogue/xlr/reference-xlr-40-analogue.htm . It creates some unity

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

  To be honest. I think the Yggdrasil would be a better option for you. You would gain more from that decision. 

That's the next dac purchase, but it's difficult to justify 2300 plus tax plus shipping at the moment—Bimby is a much higher percentage of the Yggy experience than, say HD800 is of the K1000—they're totally different. My newest toy (vintage amp) should arrive this week...about half the price of Rag after taxes and shipping. We'll see how it plays with K1000 and HE-6; it's single-ended (1/4 inch), and I need to get a speaker taps to 4 pin XLR cable.

 

[Thenazgul]

 
That's the next dac purchase, but it's difficult to justify 2300 plus tax plus shipping at the moment—Bimby is a much higher percentage of the Yggy experience than, say HD800 is of the K1000—they're totally different. My newest toy (vintage amp) should arrive this week...about half the price of Rag after taxes and shipping. We'll see how it plays with K1000 and HE-6; it's single-ended (1/4 inch), and I need to get a speaker taps to 4 pin XLR cable.

He was considering buying a Ragnarok as upgrade for his MJ2. While a upgrade for his Bimby to the Yggdrasil would result in much better sound. 

 

[Delayeed]

Is there same kind of benefit running studio monitors from balanced out rather than SE, like the headphone section? In other words are the SE pre outs gimped the same way the SE headphone outs are?

 

[Mr Rick]

  Is there same kind of benefit running studio monitors from balanced out rather than SE, like the headphone section? In other words are the SE pre outs gimped the same way the SE headphone outs are?

Define the word gimped please.

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

He was considering buying a Ragnarok as upgrade for his MJ2. While a upgrade for his Bimby to the Yggdrasil would result in much better sound. 

From hd800, I believe you. But for power starved he6/k1000? I'm not so sure. I'll get back to you.

 

[Delayeed]

  Define the word gimped please.

Idk but I've a lot of people have said that the balanced out sounds way better than SE on the Mjolnir 2.

 

[Argo Duck]

Schiit don't "gimp" any parts of their circuits, they have stated. On the contrary, Jason has gone to a lot of trouble to make SE perform as well as balanced from what I recall of his chapters about their designs. I would like to see where it's been shown the SE headphone outs are 'gimped'???

There are different opinions about balanced versus SE, though most favor balanced it is true. Caution is needed though - if people don't level match the outputs in reaching their conclusions, louder sounds better in most scenarios. The louder output is the balanced one...

 

[bosiemoncrieff]

Yeah, by something like 4x