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Schiit Audio Yggdrasil Singular – The Road Not Yet Travelled

Back in the ‘80s when I heard Mike Moffat’s original “Frankenstein” (the test bed for what would eventually become Theta Digital), I was blown away by the amazing detail it produced but knew that digital had a long way to go to match existing analog sources in musicality. At JPL at the time, using experimental DACs and a Studer Revox tube half-track 32-ips reel-to-reel machine (unfortunately I did not participate, but those that did were people whose ear I highly respected), a bar was set at 400kHz as the point at which a difference could no longer be perceived. Nowadays, though only available in relatively small quantities (software-wise), that bar is available to the general public, and the Schiit Audio Yggdrasil Singular has brought us to the edge of achieving that holy grail of audio quality deciphering lowly 44.1kHz recordings.

Without question, the Yggdrasil Singular is the best sound Schiit DAC I have heard, surpassing many DACs costing ten to twenty times more; it is that perfect synthesis of the right digital section matched with the right analog section producing exceptional detail paired with fastidiously accurate tonality, epic transient response, and luscious musicality.

If not totally unrivalled in sound quality in a price-is-no-object world, it is without peer in value; great work, Schiit Audio.