Schiit Yggdrasil Stereophile Review + Measurements

Laughing so hard my sides hurt and tears are running down my face. $2700! They are probably going to still have that Grado sound. Some folks love it which is fine. For me they give me tinnitus. Let's see. How many ads do they run in Stereophile? "Class A all the way!".

 

I'd be so down for a Yggdrasil loaner... In like a year if I ever make friend status.

But yeah I think your users would like it considering how many Schiit fans there are here. Would probably be super popular.

Yeah Schiit's talked about improving their USB, that would be a cool Yggdrasil upgrade imo.

 

From a Stereophile subscription ad (1965):

"Many readers, and some manufacturers, have been urging us to take ads, and we must admit that we're so fed up with living on the edge of poverty that we've considered doing this. "You can be just as honest with ads as without them," we are told, but we aren't all that confident that we could. As soon as we were in a position where hi-fi ad revenues made the difference between the success and failure of the magazine, we aren't sure we could help but let that realization influence our equipment reports to some degree."

 

Great find! They predict what is going to happen decades before it occurs. You have to love J. Gordon Holt. A real visionary.

 

More good stuff in this 1971 article:

"First of all, we are not considering, and neither will we consider, taking ads from manufacturers. There is just too intimate a relationship between a product and an advertisement for that product. Stereophile tests products, whose manufacturers feel pride in creation as well proprietary interest, and no matter how much we tried to be fearlessly forthright in reporting on a manufacturer's product, we are not sure we could really ignore the fact that a devastating report might cost us three mortgage payments. And when a magazine sells space to a manufacturer, it gets to know the manufacturer, and if he happens to be a nice guy, it is hard to be as hard on his mistakes (and we all make them) as we should be in order to warn our readers of them."

More at https://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/483/index.html#qRO8okoLawHWr4ol.99

 

Those old quotes amount to some visionary good s-hit.

 

beautiful quote from a different time. the saddest thing is that many/most audiophile are being brainwashed by high priced stereophile recommendations. they dont realize that Stereophile and most magazine cannot maintain integrity.
Main stream media, main stream music, main stream food, main stream medicine, main stream everything is now doomed and it seem the last resort for truth finders will be from forums. Jeez, even at university/college the BS is raging

I guess forum like SBAF is the new era and its the only forum I visit with such vision. hats off to SBAF!!!!

 

Wow...I get a dislike for exposing horribly priced HP's built like crap? At least a couple folks liked the post....though totally off topic...

Been reading Stereophile for 35+ years, but that has come to an end for sure....

 

If you're worrying about likes/dislikes here, you're doing it wrong.

From this post: "Bonus Guideline: Caring about your "likes" or "trophies" is a ban-able offense."

 

The Stereophile comments on Dave review turned dead as I assume lack of readership and responses over there...


Anyways I made one more post for the road just to add my 2cents for future readers.



I may not be proficient with dac knowledge, but can detect the BS when i read it ! lol.

 

To be called one the 3 best dacs along the berkeley and vivaldi is very very high praise. I think its probably inaccurate.

However, i think RH is definitely honest. He will not be making his high end advertisers happy by telling them a dac worth 2.3k is just as good as one worth 19k and 35k.

 

I have met a handful of people in this market segment. They would never even consider the Yggdrasil regardless of sound quality. They have a price floor for any product and the Yggdrasil doesn't come close. It's just how it is. Most have told me two things first. The brand name. Then the price. Part of the buying decision. Not a criticism. Just an observation. Hey if they are able to afford it, more power to them. I am just thankful that Schiit has a different marketing plan.

 

If I were an unethical SoB and Schiit was willing to sell me Yggdrasil's in bulk, I would pull a Lexicon and throw Yggdrasil into a billet aluminum chassis at 10X the price so those fools would buy it.

 

Yes, if one can afford to waste money "more power to them".

 

Previous paragaraph...

In fact he says it three times (at least: I skimmed a few paragraphs)

Duh... four times

This post is getting silly Among the times....
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