[Topspin70]

Thanks! Can Jam SF, maybe, never been to one. OTOH, I had convinced myself that I had reached peak hardware...

I think there is no such thing as peak hardware in this hobby. There will always be something new that's worth getting. ; )

 

[earnmyturns]

I think there is no such thing as peak hardware in this hobby. There will always be something new that's worth getting. ; )

 

[LarryMagoo]

Well I had a lot of fun at the LA Can Jam....so I thought about going to the one in the City... It's fun listening other HP's to compare to your own rig(s) . I see you have the new Mr Speakers Aeon...It must work to keep the noise from your colleague's cubes?

I live in Brentwood So I can be in the city in 45 minutes with No traffic. Let me know if you attend...it'd be fun to meet up! I just got a Jot yesterday for my Home office....to pair with the Bimby I had bought earlier.

Cheers!

BTW....Love that Homer 'toon!!! Isn't that the truth! Doh!

 

[earnmyturns]

Well I had a lot of fun at the LA Can Jam....so I thought about going to the one in the City... It's fun listening other HP's to compare to your own rig(s) . I see you have the new Mr Speakers Aeon...It must work to keep the noise from your colleague's cubes?

I live in Brentwood So I can be in the city in 45 minutes with No traffic. Let me know if you attend...it'd be fun to meet up! I just got a Jot yesterday for my Home office....to pair with the Bimby I had bought earlier.

The Æons are perfect when I need to concentrate at work, with some of the more spacey jazz and modern classical in my collection. Although in theory I'd be running them from Bimby>Jot, in practice I've been running them directly from my QP1R because there's a comfy sofa away from my desk that works better for concentration with my laptop.

I'm hoping to make it to Can Jam, Burlingame is pretty close to home in North Palo Alto. More for the social side than for getting new gear, but one never knows.

 

[Topspin70]

Well I had a lot of fun at the LA Can Jam....so I thought about going to the one in the City... It's fun listening other HP's to compare to your own rig(s) . I see you have the new Mr Speakers Aeon...It must work to keep the noise from your colleague's cubes?

I live in Brentwood So I can be in the city in 45 minutes with No traffic. Let me know if you attend...it'd be fun to meet up! I just got a Jot yesterday for my Home office....to pair with the Bimby I had bought earlier.

Cheers!

BTW....Love that Homer 'toon!!! Isn't that the truth! Doh!

You paired the Jot with the yggy? U ever got a chance to compare it with the raggy? Wondering how close or big the gap is between these amps. (Talk about always something tempting us...)

 

[earnmyturns]

You paired the Jot with the yggy? U ever got a chance to compare it with the raggy? Wondering how close or big the gap is between these amps. (Talk about always something tempting us...)

Been too busy to try all possible combos of the gear I own, and take the time to evaluate the differences. Never tried a Raggy. It would not be too difficult to try Yggy>Jot downstairs, maybe I'll try that one of these days.

 

[Topspin70]

Been too busy to try all possible combos of the gear I own, and take the time to evaluate the differences. Never tried a Raggy. It would not be too difficult to try Yggy>Jot downstairs, maybe I'll try that one of these days.

You do have quite a lot of gear there to try out combos. Will be quite a chore. My yggy to Jot via balance is extraordinary, esp with balance out to your cans. So I can only imagine how great it would be with your more capable HP-1. But still love to hear your impression when you get around to trying the Schiit combo. You must have seen @FLTWS shared a comparison between the Jot, MJ2 and Rag. Quite a nice read.

 

[UntilThen]

I just ordered a Rggy to pair with my Yggy.

I heard Yggy > Rggy > hd800 at Addicted To Audio a month ago and bought / brought Yggy and hd800 home. I love the sound from this combo.

Now a month later, I place my order for the Rggy. Looking forward to it.

Oh... also bought a pair of Schiit Pyst balance xlr cables.

 

[TJ Max]

+350 pages is a struggle to deal with, hence a favor to ask good souls here. Can someone please describe Yggy's sound signature in several words? To which DAC it's quite close?

I agree with most. It's difficult to describe a signature with the Yggy other than saying its natural or accurate sounding. I can compare it to the Teac UD-503, but with more accurate bass and maybe a little warmer in tone. Its's the Gungnir Multibit that has more of a defined signature, and in secret I actually think it sounds better.

 

[Dvdlucena]

Have anyone compared Yggdrasil vs chord hugo 2?

Cheers

 

[earnmyturns]

Have anyone compared Yggdrasil vs chord hugo 2?

Cheers

There's a comparison in a competing site, search engines are your friend.

 

[Dvdlucena]

There's a comparison in a competing site, search engines are your friend.

They are not my friend.... could only finde comparisons with hugo 1.

 

[jcn3]

Have anyone compared Yggdrasil vs chord hugo 2?

Cheers

i don't think the hugo2 has shipped yet (or at least not in any quantity) so i think the question is a bit early -- you'll have to be patient.

 

[Currawong]

I have one here. A/B'ing them level-matched through a Master 9 with Utopias (Yggy using the balanced outputs) I can get a bit more underlying detail with the Hugo 2 from the best recordings I have. For example, guitar note decay on Three Guitars (24/96 HDTracks) is clear, including the harmonics, from the Hugo 2, but through the Yggy it's more "one note" decay. That's the most extreme test though. If I do something like plug all three $2k DACs into the Solaris and listen with other headphones, and especially other music that isn't so well-recorded, it is harder to pick out which is which. Prior to that, the Hugo 1 was a distinct step behind the Yggy, both fed from a good streamer.

 

[earnmyturns]

For example, guitar note decay on Three Guitars (24/96 HDTracks) is clear, including the harmonics, from the Hugo 2, but through the Yggy it's more "one note" decay.

Hum... I have that album as CD, and through my Yggy-based speaker system (see my sig), I have no difficulty in hearing the harmonics, including beat between decaying harmonics. I was lucky to hear them live, too, so I have some sense of how they sounded together. I wonder if the critical issue here is the (mis)match between the DAC filters and transducer response, especially in regards to impulse response (causal vs not).