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In Reply to: RE: Can air & space be an artifact? posted by Feanor on November 05, 2015 at 05:49:33
I am very familiar with the track mentioned in the review, Jack Johnson's Middle Man, because I've been using it as a demo track in every audition for about the last 10 years. This is a minimally miked, minimally compressed, high quality recording. On a good system, the snare drum is naturally placed behind the other instruments, and you can hear how it energizes the recording space, and you can hear the decay of the drum and the reverberation. If the Yggdrasil isn't reproducing it all, I think the proper conclusion is that this DAC lacks low level resolution.
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Oh no!
The snare drum is sitting on top of the singers head!!!!
And the drums and singer is BEHIND me!
But they are HUGE!!!
OK, balanced HD-600 headphones out of my Audio-gd Master 11, but still...
Note that the reviewer didn't exactly say that Yggdrasil wasn't reproducing the space, only that it didn't do so quite as expansively as the Berkeley DAC, (a very much more expensive DAC although that isn't the point).
My own observation pertains to the Bifrost Multibit which presumably isn't in quite the same league as the Yggdrasil, (much less the Berkeley or EMM Labs). Bifrost Multibit does up the separation and differentiation of instruments vs. the former Bifrost Uber, but perhaps this isn't the same thing as "space", i.e. perceived depth or breadth of soundstage.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich
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