gdhal
Responses from gdhal
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? People with the means to afford living voice vox olympian speakers and comparable gear also have the means to discard such electronics (as a tax write off, of course) and simply buy whatever else is on their mind at any particular time. Also, not ... | |
| Reference disc player...UDP 205 or Marantz? ....Money doesn't necessarily get you better sound and to that end, no matter who reviews what, trust your own ears above all..........It takes a great palate to find a truly stunning bottle of wine at a sane price.....+1Although, money doesn't ne... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @rvpianoAppreciate the update. I'm hopeful to have a known (much) better set of ears than mine musician friend stop over later, specifically to "lend me his ears". Go John Lennon :) | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I believe the gdhal is interested in hearing better sound. I didn’t see a list of his components. IMHO a worthwhile improvement should be immediately recognizable. I suggest returning the Yggy immediately and use the funds to buy a used Equitech 2... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @randyhat - I understand your point and its well taken. I'm beginning to become a believer in the Yggy though, relative to the sound from my Oppo. While I'm still in the honeymoon/experimental stage, I can share that as I write this, I do NOT beli... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @whitestix Thank you. I appreciate the good advice *not* to overthink this. As you point out, the Schiit audition window is only 15 days (compared to Benchmark which I was told is 30) and *supposedly* the unit needs longer than that to break in. S... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @stfothI remain appreciative of your recommendations regarding music. So you should know, I am not completely blind in this regard. I have at my disposal the following, in optical format, and I tend to use the following. 1) Sportin Life (all track... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions By the way everyone, I received a reply on the head-fi forum, *supposedly* from Mike Moffat himself (I have asked for confirmation of that) regarding my question about the phase inversion button. His response:"....I can state that the absolute pha... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @randyhat - understood and your advice is sound (no pun intended)but wait!....@stfoth -Using the source I found of Rebecca Pidgeon Spanish Harlem (thank you for that recommendation, and which windows reports a bit rate of 2967kbps and the Yggy LE... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I’m also curious about George’s recommendations.I’d suggest a few recordings with which you are very familiar. If you’ve had some that you ever thought to yourself sounded particularly thin/metallic/digital, maybe try those. As cheesy as they are,... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I don't own a Yaggy, but from all reports it is a well done Multibit, and to me should be discernable for the better over an Oppo DS using the same PCM source material, try feeding both a CD from a proper transport, maybe it the download junk that... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions You can prove it to your self, just listen to the discrete R2R Multibit offerings from the ones I pointed out and compare them to you delta sigma Oppo ESS unit using the same PCM material, if you still can;t hear any difference it’s time to throw ... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I don't do downloads, I find them inferior with every a/b we've done at our audio society meetings, maybe it's the hardware or the downloads themselves?? But it's enough to put me off them.@georgehifi Seriously? Okay, forget the "that can be downl... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions @georgehifi So, are you able to recommend a musical or sound passage - that can be downloaded freely in lossless format via the Internet - and indicate the time index (from-to) and specific nuance to listen to, in order to unequivocally state that... | |
| Reference disc player...UDP 205 or Marantz? I don't think I can afford the Oppo mod, because it will end up costing about 3700.00 total, and I can't justify that. Don't forget the month or more it takes to do the mod and you're without the Oppo, the voided Oppo warranty, plus the possibili... |