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

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  1. purr1n

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    That's balanced. The Focusrite has XLR and phono inputs. I don't have an RCA to phono adapter. The Focusrite is hardly instrumentation grade. In this case, the Focusrite has ground hum issues on its input when using an SE to XLR BAL adapter (grounded - pin or not). This will make any -90db type of measurement useless. See here: http://www.superbestaudiofriends.or...irist-r2-r-dac-measurements.6418/#post-210918
     
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    He seems to have pissed off the Uptone Audio guys something fierce too. Here is a choice quote:

     
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    Something's usually up when Jude and I work together on a common cause. And no, I don't take money from Schiit, at least not yet. I suck too much at asking people for money. I'd feel bad about it because this is the kind of work I enjoy with the results being freely offered to people. I'll have my wife Julie do it next month.
     
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    I want to see if the problematic SE measurements are better when using BAL>SE transformers.
     
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    Does he seem like the kind of guy who would get out of his van, walk up to a woman and say "pardon me ma'am, but does this rag smell like chloroform?"
     
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    I'd be more afraid that he kidnap Jason or Mike. That Jimster guy on MD, I think is the crazed alter persona of Amir / nwavguy. Basically sociopathic behavior - not knowing when to stop on the same topic. @Zbells might be the same guy too.
     
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    seems an endemic behavior of audio fool forums, that keeps (some) spectators glued to SBAF / elsewhere for kicks?
    certainly is <insert popcorn> entertaining.
    whenever it "feels" like new products or innovations are slowing down, in comes a madman or copy-cat device to spark the Passion of the (sane) People.

    it's all fun really, keeping in mind it's a hobby and not a race toward human to deity ascension.
    might just donate more to SBAF coffers tonight to keep the torches burning.....
     
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    "Which wouldn't be surprising considering that Schiit also owns SBAF in a similar way."

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    I have been into hi-fi long enough to remember when tests meant listening, not masturbating over graphs. I bought the Modi/Magni3 because of other Schiit gear I had. Plus I own a Sumo Polaris which I like and it's connection to Schiit.

    I posted on Reddit about the Modi and how much I liked it, and was downvoted and pointed to Amir's tests. Then I searched out other tests and they did not match his.

    Human tribalism sucks. People take sides, fight and become disrespectful....about a freaking DAC? And this taking side BS is based on graphs submitted by some guy with a website.

    Anyhow....I love the Schiit Stack. It sounds fantastic to me. It's too bad that so many take Amir as gospel and then use it to attack Schiit. Just shows me that people are incapable of critical thinking.
     
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    Not as many people take Amir's words as gospel as we would think. I like measurements and I do wish people paid more attention to them. But I can tell you for a fact that measurements don't interest 90%+ of people - at least from the analytics I have for this site.

    As for Reddit / ASR, we are just talking about a handful of people. The same people. Who happen to be very loud.
     
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    Perhaps my AverLAB, which came highly recommended by Jason, was installed with special firmware which detects Schiit gear and makes them measure better? I don't know what else to say other that it is my wish that they keep coming up with crazy conspiracy theories.
     
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    The thing is if you do a Google search, this small group of people come up. Plus many people use different names. My name here is different then Reddit and Head-Fi. So sometimes a problem looks worse then it is because of the same voice looking like many.
     
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    Maybe I should repeat the measurements now that my yggdrasil Av2 has over 2600 hrs of uptime. Only issue is the rather deep queue in the lab and my tendency to enjoy listening to the Yggdrasil Av2 / ZDSE/HD800 rather than work at measurements.
     
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