tincanear
Headphoneus Supremus
@alpovs This response of mine is likely to draw the ire of some folks in this thread, so apologies in advance. Nevertheless, your question (to me anyway) is yet another example where measurement data can and should be used. One *possible* explanation as to why the yggdrasil doesn't *appear to* excel at 24bit as it does with 16bit is that the dac chips in the yggdrasil are not rated to 24bit. Yes, I get/have seen the math that has been applied to the two chips (which memory serves are rated to 19 or 21 bit each) where both in combination can produce 24bit. Still....
EDIT: Schiit says that Yggdrasil is a 21 bit DAC. But the DAC chips that they put in the device ( Analog Devices AD5791BRUZ, 2 per channel) are 20 bit with the error of plus-minus 0.5 LSB.
This is the math I'm referring to :
2^20 = 1048576
2* (2^20) = 2* 1048576
2097152 = 2097152
2^21 = 2097152
by using 2 chips per each channel, each one fed from the DSP differently (e.g. one gets a 'zero' value, and the other chip an 1.0LSB value), there are 21 effective bits.