theveterans

Your point is completely understandable of course. I'm just here hoping to find some definitive cause for perceived sound difference with Ethernet nervosa rather than dismiss it as being influenced by cognitive bias. There's too little incentives for that kind of research realistically speaking hence why we have these products that claim such and such, but little to no objective correlation with perceived differences

If something appears to work when it absolutely shouldn't, then I think we need to try to understand the technology and, ultimately, do some sort of blind test.

In practice, that might be very difficult.

Like... I know for sure that sometimes my PC (I use only one, general-purpose PC) sounds awful and has to rebooted. But it would be impossible to blind-test that.

...It is not particularly technically unlikely anyway, I suppose. But still...

The PS Audio sine wave generator is really good but it's very costly if you will use it for speaker amps. ASR shitted on PS Audio power plants real bad a few years ago with some insults to Paul's explanation on how his sine wave generator works

Yea it can have some noise, but the 120v peaks matter quite a bit for the power supply. A friend of mine goes as low as 113v peaks according to his. I think for a dac it’s a reasonable solution though it is above my budget.

True. I don't know about the P3 their cheapest model at which output voltage is set because with the P12/P15/P20, you can modify what output voltage you want from the sine generator

I believe you like the Schiit filter. Why not simply attenuate with enough headroom, without external OS?

Attenuating at 6dB headroom, I still perceive an ever so slightly ISP with Daft Punk Doin it Right, but beyond 6dB, I’m losing amp headroom for Susvara with the Aegis. For now I compromise by only using the Roon filter on 3 specific tracks that’s really bad with the Burrito filter

The Burrito filter seems to be as complicated as the mega scaler from HQPlayer that it requires a lot more headroom than simple built-in off the shelf DS DAC chips

Placebo-fi is more effective to my nervosa than any other banned substances. I should stop chasing the dragon at some point it’s getting out of hand :)

Jason encouraging “spend most money up the chain” makes me wonder when we can get our hands on an amp more expensive than the Yggdrasil ;-)

A grown up Lyr hybrid similar to Riviera AIC-10 Bal parts level (also a hybrid amp) for the ultimate planar experience would be nice :)

Funny enough, I know some people say solar made things sound worse. I don't worry about it too much though; at any rate it hasn't gotten in the way of me enjoying my music so there!

Power quality out of solar inverters is amongst the worst. Ugly buck converters producing ugly waves with lots of harmonic pollution on the power lines.

Damn! I feared as much.

I'm just jotting notes here: CC tonal coloration in the mids is in-between Atrium Open (less colored) and Verite (more colored) with Susvara OG as reference (no coloration). Coloration in a sense of tasteful tonality (e.g. wetter/lusher mids)

CC's presentation makes me not want to analyze music at all and just enjoy it at its most basic level. Feels like a DD presentation in a planar factor with Aegis. Probably the most non-fatiguing sounding planar headphone ever made. Atrium Open is actually more fatiguing in long term listening than CC

Midgard pairs incredibly well with the CC! Holographic, refined treble albeit less planton, less clean and less immediacy than Aegis. Pretty punchy and great extension on both extremes as well! Airy treble, a bit laid back but still very balanced! Unbelievable value for $219 seriously!

Actually now that I think about it, if we can't figure out what this other event was / is I'll make a poll for appoximate timeframe and location.

Open to somewhere in SD or LA county as well but someone else will have to go check the spots in those areas. But just off the top of my head I can think of more suitable venues in OC and SD county than in LA.

Sorry to derail your status post theveterans.

No worries @penguins . Looking forward to any future local meetups for sure!

Amazing amp! Whoever built it must be a fantastic guy! :)
But in all seriousness, I'm glad it's found a good home. What color should the next one be?

Dreamy in a sense that there's this harmonious blend of air and instrument transients along with sweetness in the tone that are woven together to have that "dreamy" presentation. NOS takes away the air/ambience in exchange for a more intimate and focused sonic presentation with emphasis on timbre

Yeah, you get two DACs in one.

Should probably make it clear that those of us getting the MIB cards for self-install won't get the NOS option unless we also upgrade to Yggdrasil+, as far as I know. Old chassis/front panel board doesn't support it.

Thanks for sharing! What’s the rest of the chain?

No problem! It’s paired to a Schiit Saga OG 5692 then to ampsandsound Forge 300 ohm taps with JJ KT88s/JJ 6SL7 and Susvara. Everything is single ended

@Ganzy
Third day it's much better than day 1 and day 2. The sound is a lot more musical this time. That dreamy sound is much more prominent now while macrodynamics significantly improved! NOS mode will get tested once MIB has settled in for 200 hours

How did you feed the Mini C via Bluetooth?

Using PlusSound V3 EXO Copper BT cable