![]() ![]() We're all about the original samples, so we created a digital filter with a true closed-form solution, which means it retains all the original samples. They're just like sample-rate converters or delta-sigma DACs. Most digital filters destroy the original samples in the process of upsampling. We've thrown out delta-sigma D/As and traditional digital filters to preserve the original samples all the way through from input to output."Īccording to Jason Stoddard, "Schiit DACs are the only multibit DACs built on a modern platform, using medical/military-grade D/A converters and our own closed-form digital filter running on an Analog Devices DSP chip. Some describe Yggdrasil as the World Treethe source of all things.įrom Schiit's website: "Yggdrasil is the world's only closed-form multibit DAC, delivering 21 bits of resolution with no guessing anywhere in the digital or analog path. Nevertheless, I'm here to tell you about just such a thing: Schiit's heavyweight, big-box, flagship DAC, the Yggdrasil.Ĭan you think of a DAC with a better name? Yggdrasil (pronounced IG-druh-sill) is an ash tree that, in Norse cosmology, grows out of the Well of Urd at the center of the spiritual cosmos. and stealing reviewers' Scooby Snacks.Ĭan you imagine any company but Schiit making an all-out "statement" DAC that costs only $2299? I can't. (Schiit sells only direct, online.) Moffat and Stoddard have become smirking smart-alecks because they've been around so many blocks of high-end audio that the only things they can still take seriouslythe only things they actually still enjoy doingare making modest, inexpensive hi-fi components that outperform glitzy, expensive hi-fi. They appear at audio shows, put a few of their silver boxes on the table, then jabber all day to tattooed young'uns on skateboards and fixies (footnote 1), none of whom read Stereophile or visit audio dealers. Moffat and Stoddard don't care about the high-end audio scene. Their primary advertising campaign is Stoddard's Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Upnearly 800 pages' worth of humorous stories that explain why and how each Schiit model came into being. These guys aren't just snickeringthey're not doing a lot of things other high-end companies feel they must. it costs the same to stuff a board in California as it does in China." Not only is Schiit stuff made in the USso are most of their parts. I asked Moffat how he could make a $139 phono stagethe Schiit Maniin the US. Not to mention: What sort of people name their company Schiit? Smirking, smart-alecky iconoclasts, that's who. But he hadn't warned us: The Ragnarok's output-stage bias program responds to music sources, not signal generators. He'd known in advance that the Ragnarok wouldn't look good on standard tests. While JA was struggling to properly measure Schiit's Ragnarok (Fate of the Gods) integrated amplifier for my review in the May 2016 issue, I sent Moffat an e-mail: "Are you smiling?" Right now, I swear, Schiit Audio's Mike Moffat and Jason Stoddard are sitting there in California, smugly smirking at me and John Atkinson. ![]()
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