{"id":136418,"date":"2021-09-13T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=136418"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:09:52","slug":"schiit-audio-yggdrasil-less-is-more-and-more-is-less-two-new-reference-dacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/schiit-audio-yggdrasil-less-is-more-and-more-is-less-two-new-reference-dacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiit Audio Yggdrasil Less Is More and More Is Less: Two new reference DACs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are big changes among the products of the American company Schiit Audio.\u00a0First, the manufacturer\u00a0renamed\u00a0its flagship Yggdrasil Analog 2 DAC to Yggdrasil OG (apparently, this stands for &#8220;original&#8221;).\u00a0This respected model is still based on four 20-bit AD5791 DAC chips.<\/p>\n<p>To this Schiit Audio added two new models at once.\u00a0The first one, Yggdrasil Less Is More, according to the brand, sounds even better than the freshly renamed OG &#8211; at least, subjective tests led to this conclusion.\u00a0The novelty works on four 16-bit TI DAC8812 DAC chips.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Schiit Audio named another addition to the portfolio in a completely different way: Yggdrasil More Is Less.\u00a0There are also four chips installed here, this time a 20-bit TI DAC11001.\u00a0For this model, the THD + N coefficient is stated to be no worse than -120 dB.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/760df19-f0f2-4a16-861e-b1bd792a1096.jpg\" width=\"1807\" height=\"698\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In this connection, Schiit stated that this Yggdrasil is &#8220;the best integrated multi-bit DAC with the best performance ever.&#8221;\u00a0All three Yggdrasil models feature a distinctive U-shape with a black or silver finish and a five-year warranty.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the Schiit Audio Yggdrasil Less Is More DAC will cost $ 2,200, and the More Is Less model will cost $ 2,350. The company does not plan to stop there: according to the developers, ten variations of Yggdrasil are currently being tested at Schiit.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are big changes among the products of the American company Schiit Audio.\u00a0First, the manufacturer\u00a0renamed\u00a0its flagship Yggdrasil Analog 2 DAC to Yggdrasil OG (apparently, this stands for &#8220;original&#8221;).\u00a0This respected model is still based on four 20-bit AD5791 DAC chips. To this Schiit Audio added two new models at once.\u00a0The first one, Yggdrasil Less Is More, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/schiit-audio-yggdrasil-less-is-more-and-more-is-less-two-new-reference-dacs\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":136419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-136418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}