music1st
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In the case of the Spring DAC it's not really a change in my comparison. In fact the only statement I would change in my original review of the Spring DAC is that it wouldn't be as hard for me to choose just one DAC if the choice was down to the Spring DAC and Yggdrasil. Pretty much everything else in that review remains the same.
To clarify:
- I have no intention of selling my Spring DAC.
- The Spring DAC remains the best NOS DAC I've heard to date*.
- The Spring DAC remains the best discrete R2R DAC I've heard to date*.
- The Spring DAC does the best job with DSD content that I've heard so far.
- I find the Spring DAC to be an excellent complement to Yggdrasil. If I didn't already have the Spring DAC, and I heard one, I'd still buy one for the things it does well/better.
My "big" headphone listening rigs are setup where one has Yggdrasil + Spring DAC, one is just an Yggdrasil, one is just a Gungnir MB. I have more opportunity to listen with Yggdrasil ... at once location that's ALL I can listen with (portable stuff excepted). So that slants things somewhat. But, yes, I do listen more with Yggdrasil than anything else to a significant degree. And it's simply because, for the broadest array of my listening, I find it does the best, most musical, involving and emotive job overall. Hence, if I was limited to a single DAC, Yggdrasil would be the one I would pick.
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*My comparisons there are, however, not back-to-back with the Pavane ... they are triangulated/from memory, so who knows what would happen if I put the Pavane, especialy the latest upgraded version, back-to-back with the Spring DAC or any of the others.
Torq
Can you tell us what music types you listen to?
Kerry