Yggdrasil A2 Measurements - Deconstructing ASR / Amir's Hack Job

Your question is a good one. You may see some time estimates for high quality measurement work here. There is no way multiple DACs can be run through a suite of tests, with multiple source inputs (USB, spdif, etc) and multiple destinations (Bal, unbal) in a few hours and achieve quality results. Only a few measurements are possible in that time frame, and opportunity for mistakes or unintentional unfair comparisons is extremely high.

 

Please close this thread* soon and pull out the Yggdrasil A2 measurements, giving amir way too much free rent good or bad. He's building a forum and any sort of traffic is a plus for the guy, some may be putting way too much thought into analyzing him. Its fun to haze a bit... but this is sooo a rehash. (am I being a partypooper? nah - lol)

*OK OK in bit ;D

 

Amir's hatred against Schiit begin when his son Bifrost catching noise from computer activity, specifically in Windows Media Player.

Maybe he hate Schiit because their gear revealed all his work in Microsoft was absolute SHITE?!

 

Nope, you didn't misread ... the unbalanced graphs are right there too.

Attention to detail doesn't seem to be his thing.

 

Here is Amir saying linearity measurements out of the box by APx555 is incorrect... unless it's corrected like his:

https://audiosciencereview.com/foru...read-about-audio-measurements.2580/post-83320

 

Didn’t nwavguy use a Dscope, whereas amir’s weapon is the Audio Precision set.

 

That’s diet conspiracy theorizing for ASR. In one of the Schiit threads over there, several ASR posters were speculating that Schiit is an elaborate prank by Jason and Mike to get people to buy what the Schiit guys know are crappy products by making them look nice. (Why their prank involved making products with pricey AD5791 chips, rather than just putting Topping-level stuff in nicer boxes, was never explained.)

 

It's sort of funny since Schiit actually does the opposite, put great products in cheap cases.

 

I wonder if Amir spends any time actually listening to music. Too many people in this hobby forget the purpose of the stuff they talk about. A half-baked analogy would be that they are too busy admiring or criticising the wrapping paper to actually enjoy the gift inside.

Become a true armchair audiophile Amir: Sit down and listen to some tunes.

 

I doubt he listens much at all.

Are all of his “true believers” people who think the DAC built into their computer is as good as any external DAC?

 

That's what I don't understand. Why do they bother following the equipment side of the hobby at all? Just go to Best Buy and buy anything.

 

No, that was the original hydrogenaudio.io crowd.

Amir is the leader of a crowd that believes that measurements tell all and the best measuring gear is the best gear period.

 

Here is the dScope analog loopback linearity (out of the box, no bullshit corrections), using connectors and external wires like in real world measurements:

Made several runs and observed the -140 dBFS value vary ± 0.5 dB.

According to Amir's criteria this would make the dScope a superior analyzer to the APx555. Look how the linearity deviation from 0 dB doesn't appear until -125 dBFS and is -0.5 dB at greatest deviation, no corrections necessary.

Now how many of you really believe the dScope is a superior analyzer to the APx555?

Audio Precision, Prism Sound, Rohde & Schwarz, etc. all have very experienced design engineers. Their respective analyzers are all capable of making accurate measurements. When configured similarly and properly the results will be in close agreement for the same device measured.

*edited* for grammar and clarity.