Schiit Audio’s Yggdrasil+ Mib Flagship Dac Is Getting Better With Age

2023 has been a quite busy yr for Schiit Audio; the corporate now manufactures its elements in California and Texas and has offered a variety of new merchandise together with the URD CD shipping, Hel+ gaming hub, Skoll phono pre-amplifier, and Midgard headphone amplifier.

A glance glance in the course of the web site unearths an expanded vary of energy amplifiers, headphone amplifiers, encompass sound processors, pre-amplifiers and DACs.

At the DAC facet, the flagship Yggdrasil remains to be presented in two other configurations (OG and Much less is Extra), however all of this is about to modify.

Schiit Audio has introduced its Yggdrasil+ Extra is Higher, or MIB for handiest $2,599 ($2,699 within the silver end).

The new model of its best-selling DAC delivers the “ideal measured efficiency but” consistent with Jason Stoddard, Schiit’s co-founder.

“Those remarkable effects are the results of Texas Tools’ new DAC11001B IC,” mentioned Jason Stoddard. “It has taken the precision DAC crown, throughout all the audio band, from 20Hz to 20kHz.”

The DAC11001B IC is generally now not used for shopper audio, however Schiit Audio is skilled at the usage of its customized DSP-based virtual filter out to interface with ICs typically utilized in clinical and protection packages. The Yggdrasil+ MIB makes use of 4 DAC11001Bs, one for every section, in a hardware-balanced, differential utility.

One of the crucial advantages of shopping for from Schiit is that most of the merchandise are simply upgradeable and that no doubt applies to the Yggdrasil+ platform. Consistent with Stoddard, the new MIB forums for current Yggdrasil+ gadgets shall be to be had ahead of the top of 2023.

The analog board improve price is anticipated to be $800 USD.

“This highlights a key benefit of Yggdrasil,” mentioned Jason Stoddard. “It’s the one totally modular, upgradable DAC, which makes it evergreen. Offered 9 years in the past, it’s in all probability the one DAC of its age that has grown and adjusted with the days, quite then being changed by way of a new product.”

All Yggdrasil+

• Inputs: Unison USB, AES/EBU XLR, RCA SPDIF, BNC SPDIF, Optical SPDIF
  • Enter Capacity: as much as 24/192 for all inputs
  • Enter Receiver, SPDIF: AKM AK4113
  • Enter Receiver, USB: Unison USB™,  in accordance with Microchip PIC32 microprocessor
• Clock Control: Bitperfect clock control in any respect local pattern charges by way of Adapticlock research and VCXO/VCO regeneration
• Virtual Filter out: proprietary Schiit time- and frequency-domain optimized virtual filter out applied on Analog Gadgets SHARC DSP processor
• Output: One pair XLR balanced and two pairs RCA single-ended
• Output Impedance: 75 ohms
• Energy Provide: two transformers (one for virtual provides, one for analog provides) plus one enter choke for discrete, twin mono, shunt-regulated analog +/-24V provide, plus 12 or extra separate native regulated provides for DACs and virtual sections, together with high-precision, low-noise LM723 legislation in vital spaces.
• Upgradability: Totally modular structure. Separate virtual enter board, USB enter board, DSP engine board, and DAC/analog output forums.
• Energy Intake: 45W 
• Dimension: 16 x 13” x 2.875”
• Weight: 25 lbs

Yggy+ MIB (Extra is Higher)

• Frequency Reaction, Analog Level: 20Hz-20Khz, +/-0.1dB, 0.5Hz-100KHz, -1dB
• Most Output: 4.0V RMS (balanced), 2.0V RMS (single-ended)
• THD+N: -118dB referenced to complete output (0.0001%), -96dB at 20kHz, 90kHz bandwidth
• IMD: <0.0002%, CCIF, at complete output
• SNR: > 128dB, referenced to 4V RMS
• D/A Conversion IC: Texas Tools DAC11001B x 4 (2 in step with channel, twin {hardware} balanced configuration)
• Analog Level: Built-in, the usage of LME49724 differential degree 

Yggdrasil+ MIB is to be had now at schiit.com for $2,599 in black, $2,699 in silver.

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