How does 10+ year old technology compare to modern: Musical Fidelity M1 DAC

BTW - the Mola Mola Tambaqui was actually designed around 2005 by Bruno P. I would love to own one if it cost under $3k Bruno mentioned the history of the DAC in an interview on ASR. The Tambaqui DAC was originally the DAC module in the Makua preamp.

Yesterday, I just picked up my Schitt Yggi+ OG after it was sent to Colorado for a high-end audio fest. I wanted the people there to compare top end DACs against the Yggi+ and give me some feedback.

This was posted on Head-fi.

Another Head-Fi’er, @yyzSB, sent his Schiit Audio Yggdrasil+ OG DAC with Danny, and I got a chance to listen to it not only driving my Immanis through my Zahl HM1 and VM-1a, but also through Danny’s Feliks Audio Envy. It has great tonal density—more than my Dave. And it does bass drum better than I think I’ve ever heard. Not only with the impact of the drum strikes, but the hollow reverb (I mean hollow in a good way here) of the sound of that strike bouncing around inside the drum. Timbre across the rest of the FR, and technicalities, were a touch behind my Dave, with the Yggi+ sounding a hair more digital. But the Yggi+ is also much less expensive and offers insane SQ per $.

The person I picked up the DAC from is a musician with incredible hearing. He told me he liked the Mola Mola Tambaqui a bit more, but he did say something that really surprised me. He said that in a blind test even he likely could not tell the difference.

I have a Schitt Yggi+ LIM also and I am going to convert it to the More Is Better because it sounds more like the OG.

Both of the DACs mentioned cost $15k.