Schiit Yggdrasil Stereophile Review + Measurements

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    Yup. For a 18000 symmetric linear phase filter, the main tap is 9000 taps in. Transients die out when the delay line is half full for a linear phase symmetric FIR. Delay is also half the size of such a type of filter.
     
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    Note I'm assuming a 96 kHz filter sampling rate. If the filter is run slower for certain selected rates, the delay will be worse (44.1 kHz would be about 2x worse). If the filter is run faster for certain selected rates, the delay will be more benign.

    It will be a large delay relative to your everyday DAC though. But just as there is no such thing as a free lunch, you also get some benefits for what you pay in this case: Linear phase, better rejection, your home-cooked optimization deal, flat pass band, and so on.
     
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    Sorry for the ignorance but @ultrabike I am officially confused. I use Gungnir Multibit, for all things audio and as long as it's not piped through JRiver, the delay to me is negligible, and I am very sensitive to A/V delay. Am I losing my touch or have I just gotten used to it? I do notice a slight delay using Eitr vs my Steinberg MR816x both coax to Gungnir Multibit. I also have a Creative Soundblaster Z that seems to give the least delay with all processing off.
     
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    What is the audio sampling rate being feed to the Gungnir Multibit?
     
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    44.1/24
     
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    Most modern displays have 40-150ms of delay depending on the display mode and what video processing options are selected. With a CRT TV or monitor, you'd notice the delay though.
     
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    I use mine with a 144Hz TN monitor and previously a CRT monitor which this particular TN monitor rivals with blur reduction enabled.

    I can't play on any TV due to the input lag but thanks for the reminder about most TVs.
     
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    I dunno. Maybe it's something like @dmckean44 mentions.

    I do know that the filter response has been measured:

    https://www.stereophile.com/content/schiit-audio-yggdrasil-da-processor-measurements

    However, JA ran out of space there. He usually displays a window of 5 ms and that was insufficient for the Yggdrasil (unlike pretty much every other random DAC). Meaning, indeed the delay will be unusually large (as in way larger than 0.1 ms, and maybe in the several tens of ms depending on the size of the post cursor output).

    Don't be fooled by the transients dying out. The delay will still be there, even if the coefficients are nano-insignificant as they move away from the main tap (as it should be).

    One could also measure the delta time when recording.
     
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    So I don't have a Yggdrasil, but if you do:
    1. Connect a Yggdrasil and your other random DAC to the same signal source.
    2. Connect the right channel output of your Yggdrasil to your ADC capture card left channel.
    3. Connect the right channel of your random DAC to your ADC capture card right channel.
    4. Run silence followed by a pulse on the right channel.
    5. Compare delays on the recorded waveform.
    Maybe that would work.

    Play around with test signal sampling rate too.
     
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    I have a Gungnir Multibit but the results should be similar. That's definitely something I'll try as I've been curious about it but never bothered quantifying it.
     
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    Reading on ASIO, it seems depending on buffer, one may be looking at a latency of a few ms (2 to 6 ms depending on sampling rate).

    Other interfaces may inject even more latency. Still, I would be surprised if the latency on the Yggdrasil comes up to 6 or so ms. This given the sharp cut off and stop band rejection while maintaining linear phase. I would expect quite a bit more than that for that performance.
     
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    Yup, I always run as low a buffer as possible, 32 samples at 44.1kHz when gaming. When working in the DAW I use 128 to avoid stuttering with a ton of effects and VSTis.
     
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