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I'm addicted to the imaging quality and rawness of the A1. I'm afraid that going to the A2 or even LIM would "smooth" it over too much. I'm good with EQing the upper mids on A1 down a bit and building around it. It gets the hard part right, that I'd rather not compromise it.

@GoldfishX I feel that the A2 offers more slam than the A1. The A2 is like a tweaked A1. I wouldn’t call it smooth, but I would prob stick with the A1 if I had to pick only one.

I go back and forth. A1 is the pool, A2 is the jacuzzi. Incisive immediacy versus chocolate earthiness.

No phono, bro

I’m fairly intolerant to noise (as in, I get really close to my speakers when I test gear — I get to 70% output of the 100W amp I use just to hear the noise floor of the phono with no input). That’s effing quiet. And I don’t hear channel imbalance or uneven noise. Magic unit? Is it the black paint? :)

@schiit There is still power supply noise like crazy on the left channel.

HF

I recently found out that if my ears had a certain amount of wax in them, then high frequencies would be very fatiguing, almost similar to tinnitus ringing. First and foremost, I would clean your ears or have an audiologist clean them for you.

Mystery solved: I caught a “back to school” cold. It’s not the cans, it’s a little bit of otitis media. #dumbfuckjuice

The MCD85 doesn't have digital outputs? CD player vs transport. I'm curious how one would compare them.

I should have said, “Urd + Yggdrasil A2”.

Unsurprisingly, it comes down to synergy and taste. So nothing revelatory to say in a status update.

However, this may be the best implementation of the ESS stuff I've heard. The shrill and harsh highs I thought were emblematic of these chips are simply not here (yes, @purr1n had already told me not all ESS implementations sound the same, now I have experience).

lol, the Seattle Times made that concert seem like a major dud and even made it the featured article on the top of the home page.

Clickbait! The guy is more on the Bumbershoot crowd anyway, and it shows.

Ask anyone who attended either night. We got exactly what we paid for: loud, fun, stadium metal.

Very few reporters covering metal as it should. Whatever happened to the good ol’ shit from Kerrang?

US is not a metal country. Metallica kind of doesn't count because they are so popular/mainstream. Wish I could have gone but I'm not that rich.

Thank you so much this means a lot to me. I should get production going soon. Maybe a month. Waiting for some custom parts branded with my logo. <3

Followed you up until that last sentence…

I got the "stone" model. So far, the server works well (more screws, but a lot better interior layout IMO). It's also demonstrably faster. So far, so good.

Put mine down with the 2CH. So lovely with the Aegir and the Lintons. I have no reason to buy anything else for a very long time.

I've been rather sick, so all I can do is listen. This test was good. GS2 is really good. Indeed it is an airier Gungnir A2 with better separation. Better than OG/A2? No. Flavors indeed.

MHA200 extracts all the juice, so I don't feel like I'm leaving Yggdrasil coins on the table anymore. Used HD800S for testing.

@zonto - DSHA-3F/N: no, I haven’t heard it. Rather curious as it is focal-focused.

I heard them quickly at CanJam NYC, they sounded quite good (show conditions yadda yadda)

It's not great, unfortunately.

Bummer!

I still have its old big brother CXN-v2 on a secondary setup. Still a solid piece of kit - my single complaint is it doesn’t do Apple Music natively (but AirPlay is good enough there).

Oh yeah! CXNv2 is really good - and the Wolkfram DACs are not bad at all. The AXN10’s ESS are a tiny bit brighter, but heck, I just needed a reliable transport under $500. Feed the Yggdrasil’s coax and move on.

Haven’t tried the CXN100. I hope the built-in dac implementation is cool! Hard to beat that, a CXC, and an amp for a better-than-most easy to set up system.

Could be! But End game is a state of inner contentment not a combination of gear

Haha true - I have bifrost 2/64, jot2 as preamp (for the genelecs), and mha 200 in the studio rig these days. All good.

Moved MJ3 to the Yggdrasil rig, not bad at all. But I still think MHA200 gets all out of Yggdrasil and everything else leaves a little bit out. Oh well. It’s good to play with toys and enjoy tunes.

I’m not old and fat and rich

But you will be at least one of those, one day.

Wouldn't you like to have built your dream audio system?

Isn't what he did the same as what many here do? The difference being only one of scale.

I like reading about passion projects related to my hobbies - I may not get to rebuild a 1964 Corvette, but I can certainly enjoy someone else’s story about their ride :-)

Say it’s true it’s true
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

In love?

New Beatles song