[theveterans]

^ IMO speakers beat any headphones in listening pleasure any day. Once you get used to the large soundstage and realistic imaging, there's no going back to headphones hehe.

 

[buke9]

^ IMO speakers beat any headphones in listening pleasure any day. Once you get used to the large soundstage and realistic imaging, there's no going back to headphones hehe.

Don't totally disagree with that but there is also the adage "Happy wife happy life".

 

[matbhuvi]

  Listening to Yggy on my 2-channel speaker setup right now... Very Nice!!!! Come join the club!!! It's more expense for a reason

 
Not always more expensive. I am using Neumann KH120 monitors which i bought used in this forum. AES input to Yggy -> Balanced XLR out to speakers -> Total bliss. 
 
I am in this hobby for about 12 years. After a long long time, i feeling new things in the songs that i have heard more than 100 times. It is not about hearing new things...i never knew that those instruments are mastered to produce such a stage as defined by yggy. 
 
None of the songs that i listen are mastered for headphones . Any how, comparing speakers to headphones is comparing apples to oranges. If your neighbors don't complain, if your wife can adjust with loud volume...heck yeah..speakers any day.

 

[earnmyturns]

  Listening to Yggy on my 2-channel speaker setup right now... Very Nice!!!! Come join the club!!! It's more expense for a reason

I love my Yggy-based 2-channel system (see sig), just listening to Michel Camilo's "What's Up?" that I just got and ripped into my Roon-based music server. Camilo's piano is just there at the back of my living room -- and I know what he sounds like live from a couple of shows he played in SF not so long ago.

 

[Gamergtx260]

  I love my Yggy-based 2-channel system (see sig), just listening to Michel Camilo's "What's Up?" that I just got and ripped into my Roon-based music server. Camilo's piano is just there at the back of my living room -- and I know what he sounds like live from a couple of shows he played in SF not so long ago.

I'm speechless. I'll stick with my Bose companion 50 for casual listening for now :|

 

[Gamergtx260]

I think I understand why you all say the yggy is great with speakers. The yggy sounded distant, meaning there is a lot of seperation with the left and right channels and I think they will need some crossfeeding. Does anyone know how to add crossfeed to windows by default since I steam from tidal?

 

[comzee]

  I'm speechless. I'll stick with my Bose companion 50 for casual listening for now :|

While the Kef 1 are amazing, you don't have to break the bank to get great speakers.
 
Here's three choices, depending on how many watts you want to throw around. 
 
Omega Compact Alnico Monitor $1500/pair
 
BMR Philharmonitor  $1600/pair
 
Magnepan "Maggies" .7 $1400/pair

 

[reddog]

I have decided to get some speakers and see how great they should sound through my Yggdrasil and Ragnarock or Liquid Gold. I am ordering a demo/ belemo pair of Fritiz Carbon 7SE speaker, for my small audio room. I have a ER doctor, who lives above me, and will come home at 3 am and jam out. I love the Who and David Bowie but not at 4 am, so I will fight fire with fire. I will see if he likes some Sex Pistols and Green Jellow at 5 am lol. Plus I honestly want to see how well 2 channel speakers sound through my set up.

 

[kendavis]

I have a ER doctor, who lives above me, and will come home at 3 am and jam out. I love the Who and David Bowie but not at 4 am, so I will fight fire with fire. I will see if he likes some Sex Pistols and Green Jellow at 5 am lol. Plus I honestly want to see how well 2 channel speakers sound through my set up.

You better hope that he'd not the attending if you crash your car.

 

[US Blues]

  I think I understand why you all say the yggy is great with speakers. The yggy sounded distant, meaning there is a lot of seperation with the left and right channels and I think they will need some crossfeeding. Does anyone know how to add crossfeed to windows by default since I steam from tidal?

You might want to play with adjusting your speakers first, the Yggy will reveal other deficiencies in your system. Maybe they are too far apart, or could be "toed-in" a little but to center the sonic image. Try working with your speakers before messing around with the sonics electronically.

 

[Gamergtx260]

 
You might want to play with adjusting your speakers first, the Yggy will reveal other deficiencies in your system. Maybe they are too far apart, or could be "toed-in" a little but to center the sonic image. Try working with your speakers before messing around with the sonics electronically.

How stupid of me I forgot to mention that I was using headphones. Sorry
I was about to say while I use headphones, the seperation is farther than normal and I would like to know the crossfeeding technique for tidal.

 

[dguitarnut]

Yep speakers make headphone stuff look like kiddie toys, I'm looking at entry level Siltech speaker cables for $1800.

 

[watchnerd]

Yep speakers make headphone stuff look like kiddie toys, I'm looking at entry level Siltech speaker cables for $1800.

 
And yet the stupid headphone makers can't seem to standardize on a range of impedances that are in any way sane, ranging from single digit ohms up to 600 ohms....

 

[RoundRound]

  How stupid of me I forgot to mention that I was using headphones. Sorry
I was about to say while I use headphones, the seperation is farther than normal and I would like to know the crossfeeding technique for tidal.

I believe you can use Jriver on windows as a sound driver - i.e. you set up whatever DSP, EQ, cross feed at Jriver and it acts as a global sound driver on windows - meaning your Tidal would stream through the Jriver WDM driver - I hope it makes sense? it's less complicated than it sounds. 

 

[Limniscate]

I just got my Yggy and am running it through a Sonore microRendu with Uptone LPS-1 (also received today).  It's connected to my Audio Research Ref5SE preamp via Shunyata Zitron Python XLR interconnects, which is connected to a Sanders Magtech via Groneberg TS Premium interconnects to Magnepan 3.7i on MYE stands.
 
It didn't sound much different from my Bimby at first but seems to be opening up after a few hours.