These spikes look a bit disconcerting, hopefully they are much lower with real world high-frequency content levels which is much less than 0dB.
What gets me is that this measurement is taken at 44.1kHz, so this grotesque level of foldback IMD isn't a result of the choice to use 4x oversampling.
Is this from the new more is less Yggdrasil or the OG? As that is a terrible SINAD. My smsl Sanskrit mk2 measures better and was $130 when I bought it.These spikes look a bit disconcerting, hopefully they are much lower with real world high-frequency content levels which is much less than 0dB.
Is this from the new more is less Yggdrasil or the OG? As that is a terrible SINAD. My smsl Sanskrit mk2 measures better and was $130 when I bought it.
Is this from the new more is less Yggdrasil or the OG? As that is a terrible SINAD. My smsl Sanskrit mk2 measures better and was $130 when I bought it.
that's the beauty of objective approach. if it's bad it is bad. there is no scope of cult thing if you depend on objective approach. i don't think asr has favored any brand out of the way. anybody is free to send their equipment for test. topping have confidence about their measured performance so they send their product to ASR. schiit and other don't follow this, it's their choice.Are you sure it's all about you? The reality is the measurements vs. subjective debate has been going on for a while. The Audio Critic was doing battle in this territory decades before you. Regarding ASR prompting Schiit to design better I have wondered if the same isn't true for forum favorite Topping. It's seems they release an amp or dac measured here every other month with higher and higher Sinad using ASR's measurements as their guide. Topping has clued into the fact that it does seem to be all about Sinad here, despite a protest to the contrary in another thread. I don't blame them for exploiting that segment of the market just as Schiit did with the Heresy, but it's ok if Schiit has a different perspective from you with their other products. Topping's focus appears to be to tap into the faith here and has managed to cultivate a band of eager defenders who will pile on dissenters. When I joined, ASR seemed like a breath of fresh air, about as objective as I could have hoped. Now it seems like a cult. This is audio, you're not saving lives here.
Perhaps it suffers from aliasing?This kinda mirror what was found in the measurement. I just wonder why they even bother making this available... were they just trying to troll the measurement crowd?
Yes, it must be hard pretending to be a proper dac all the time.Perhaps it suffers from aliasing?
Badoom - followed by TishYes, it must be hard pretending to be a proper dac all the time.
For a multibit DAC a SINAD of 118.5 dB is quite impressive.More is Less measurements.
Schiit Yggdrasil 'More is Less' Measurements - GoldenSound
The Schiit Yggdrasil 'More is Less' is a new DAC from Schiit, which at first look, seems to offer quite incredible performance for an R2R DACgoldensound.audio
In this case, SINAD measured at 1kHz is very misleading though. SINAD measured at 17.5k is 88 dB. The device's performance falls apart in the upper octave.For a multibit DAC a SINAD of 118.5 dB is quite impressive.
It's not correct to measure the SINAD at 17.5 kHz within a 20...20.000 Hz bandwidth, so let's stick to similar measurements that Amir, Wolf and AtomicBob are doing to such DACs. You may also check the multitone test as well and compare it with other multibit DACs; also Schit's own measurements can be checked as well.In this case, SINAD measured at 1kHz is very misleading though. SINAD measured at 17.5k is 88 dB. The device's performance falls apart in the upper octave.