[wink]

Imagine, next week we get pages of how the Yggdrasil kicks the Theta's butt all directions including up and down.....  I can't wait....   

 

[lukeap69]

But you will need to wait for few days before the Yggy shows it's true performance. So it looks like next, next week then...

 

[estreeter]

  Imagine, next week we get pages of how the Yggdrasil kicks the Theta's butt all directions including up and down.....  I can't wait....   

 
purrin already posted to that extent weeks ago, but I take your point. I'm still reeling from the fact that two of my dream DACs, the Berkeley and the Bricasti, were cast aside like something purrin found in the bargain bin at K-Mart the day he got a vintage R2R DAC. I think that was the point where the earth shifted on it's axis and every s-d DAC on that first page was effectively just there to make up the numbers. In some respects, its a shame the manufacturers dont get right of reply as they do in Stereophile reviews, but that would have turned this into an even bigger opus than it already is. I would very much like to hear from one of the engineers working at either of those companies as to why they've persisted with sigma-delta when their sticker prices would seem to indicate they could afford to implement an alternative. 

 

[alreadyused]

   
purrin already posted to that extent weeks ago, but I take your point. I'm still reeling from the fact that two of my dream DACs, the Berkeley and the Bricasti, were cast aside like something purrin found in the bargain bin at K-Mart the day he got a vintage R2R DAC. I think that was the point where the earth shifted on it's axis and every s-d DAC on that first page was effectively just there to make up the numbers. In some respects, its a shame the manufacturers dont get right of reply as they do in Stereophile reviews, but that would have turned this into an even bigger opus than it already is. I would very much like to hear from one of the engineers working at either of those companies as to why they've persisted with sigma-delta when their sticker prices would seem to indicate they could afford to implement an alternative. 

I doubt the engineers have much say in the matter.

 

[nicolo]

Sigma Delta means higher profit margins compared to R2R, even when DACs are highly priced. It's just good business sense. That's all.

 

[pyfgcrl]

  Sigma Delta means higher profit margins compared to R2R, even when DACs are highly priced. It's just good business sense. That's all.

It's only good business sense until Mike Moffat releases the best DAC the world has ever seen, turns their business sense on its head and craps in their Cheerios.

 

[prot]

Why would anyone stop making the Theta is beyond me and suite sad really.

 
Speaking about Theta, here's another side of their story
http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/REFERENCES/THETA%20Universal/theta.html
 
For some funny reason, the Theta website contains a very different version of that story
http://www.thetadigital.com/legacy_products.shtml#data

 

[amalgamist]

its live ~!@~!@

 

[pyfgcrl]

  its live ~!@~!@

Ordered.
 

 

[estreeter]

Cue thread explosion - Tuesday AM LA time - in your face mulder01 !
 
http://schiit.com/products/yggdrasil

 

[bfreedma]

Cue thread explosion - Tuesday AM LA time - in your face mulder01 !
 
http://schiit.com/products/yggdrasil

Great. Can you move on now?

 

[skeptic]

 
It's only good business sense until Mike Moffat releases the best DAC the world has ever seen, turns their business sense on its head and craps in their Cheerios.

 
In our tiny little eccentric corner of the world of hifi audio, that may be the case!  Having placed my order, I have high hopes that the Yggy will thoroughly outclass my current dac.  That said, unless Apple and Samsung start implementing AD5791BRUZ's in their smartphones (and making them the size and weight of cinderblocks), I don't think the SD manufacturers have a whole lot to stress about from a business standpoint.   
 
[Edit - which raises an interesting question - schiitphone anyone? 

]

 

[pyfgcrl]

   
In our tiny little eccentric corner of the world of hifi audio, that may be the case!  Having placed my order, I have high hopes that the Yggy will thoroughly outclass my current dac.  That said, unless Apple and Samsung start implementing AD5791BRUZ's in their smartphones (and making them the size and weight of cinderblocks), I don't think the SD manufacturers have a whole lot to stress about from a business standpoint.   
 
[Edit - which raises an interesting question - schiitphone anyone? 

]

  Mystery 3. And expect something that nobody is expecting from us. I can’t say more.

 
See? Of course it's the Schiitphone.  Remember when Steve Jobs denied they were doing a phone for years and then?  Boom.

 

[kapanak]

   
See? Of course it's the Schiitphone.  Remember when Steve Jobs denied they were doing a phone for years and then?  Boom.

LOL! Anyway, only reason I'm reluctant to believe that (even though I predicted the same right when Jason posted that) is that he said he won't want to do transducers ever again.
 
But who said about HIM having to do it? Somebody else at Schiit might be working on it

 

[hodgjy]

   
 
[Edit - which raises an interesting question - schiitphone anyone? 

]

I would buy a Shiitphone only if it had a fully discrete JEFT analog output stage running in pure class A.