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In Reply to: RE: And of course I would REALLY love to know how big of a 'step down' the Gungnir Multi might be.... posted by RD on September 08, 2015 at 19:22:59
I have a Marantz SA-8005. It sounds pretty darn good. I would love to compare it to some of the higher end units from Schiit but don't feel like paying a 5% restocking fee ($100+ on the Yggd) if the Schiit doesn't measure up to expectations.
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I do not think you will be paying any restocking fee. There will be a significant improvement over your Marantz. The Yggdrasil has bettered, in my system, the Hugo, the Weiss DAC2 and others.
For me, a component does not only need to best my existing components to warrant my purchase of it. In addition, it needs to be clearly worth the additional cost. While I will take your word that the Schiit unit bests the Marantz SA-8005, I am not so convinced that it would be worth the additional ~$1400 it would cost me over what i paid for the Marantz.
I compared the Marantz SA-8005 with the Bifrost Multibit. The Bifrost was fed from the Marantz through coax and I set-up the premp for 1 button switching between the two. Music was classical, Jazz, opera, voice (both male and female), pop, and rock. This was a blind test (someone else did the listening and evaluation). While the Bifrost Multibit was more detailed, the Marantz beat it on dynamics. The Marantz was more musical and more enjoyable. I'm keeping the Bifrost MB in the system for another couple of weeks and will compare again then. Yes, the Bifrost MB is not the Yggy but given what we heard, I wouldn't be so sure that the Yggy will hands down be preferred over the SA-8005.
I'm would be surprised that some people will prefer other DACs over the Schiit Multibits for "musicality".
The Multibits are highly revealing of detail, but aren't "warm". For that matter the details on the recording might be good or bad. I find that the greatest improvement, in my case with the Bifrost Multibit, is from the best recordings and from 16/44.1; mediocre/poor recordings are not nearly so improved.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
Then don't purchase it. No big deal.
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