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New Yggy is shipping today. I sure hope it sounds better than the last one.

Ugh. Just looked at my Investment accounts. The amount of $ I'm sure we've all lost in the past two weeks is staggering.

This NYT article on "giga-coasters" is pretty damn awesome: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/17/travel/17Coasters.html

The stereophile guys were out in force so I would assume they are going to have a bunch of pics posted over there.

I thought the ELAC room was the best bang for the buck setup of the entire show.

Had a great time at the California Audio Show with Ric, Al, Andrew, Grahame and others. Give me a cheap-o room set up well over a mega-bucks room set up poorly every day and twice on Sundays. Pleasant surprises for me included the ELAC speakers room and the two rooms with Audio Note speakers. Each sounded pretty darn good on a solid mid-fi budget.

I am still planning on hitting up the Millbrae pancake house up at about 9:30 before the show. Any and all are welcome to join. If anyone wants to meet up at the show shoot me a DM and I'll send you my cell number.

Someone said if you call/email them they may still honor the price. Worth a shot?

Sennheiser HD650's are $300 @ buysonic https://www.buysonic.com/products/sennheiser-hd-650/ Shoot, why not at that price? I ordered a pair.

Sounds good, Ric.

Sooooo.... yeah. Liked the season, but didn't love it. It felt like they just had way too much going on for only being 8 episodes.

I have an irrational love of software updates. For some reason I just love running them. Yesterday was a good day. I got to update four things I use a ton: My Kindle with an update that added a new font and a new typesetting engine.The Plex iOS app. The new one is a HUGE improvement.The Oppo 105 which added streaming from Tidal and some bug fixes.The Oppo iOS remote app I use to run the Oppo.Like I said. A happy day.

So I never thought anything on the Disney channel would ever be for me, but on the recommendation of a friend I've been giving Star Wars: Rebels a shot. Wow, Rebels is actually pretty darn good! Someone had told me that Rebels is a better Star Wars experience than the 3 prequel movies. I think they may be right.

Dear lord those are some expensive looking bottles. -- Also, paging Brent to the courtesy telephone please: http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/08/the-food-lab-super-flaky-buttermilk-biscuits-excerpt.html

Original owner offered to take it back. If it doesn't sound better after tonight then that is the plan. EDIT: I tried all three inputs (USB, Coax, Toslink) and none of them sound good. I'm 90% sure this Yggy isn't working right. The treble is both hard and distant and the bass is just fat and loose. The Yggy I heard at the SF Bay Area meet didn't sound anything like this one. It is going back to the original owner and I've gone ahead and re-ordered from Schiit. I'm now in the back of the line, but oh well. Better to have one that works. I am going to go back and delete my earlier impressions as I don't think they accurately reflect what a properly functioning Yggy should sound like.

I did some more listening last night, this time through the coax input and I think something may be wrong with this particular Yggy. I A/B'ed it with the Oppo and something just sounds off. I am going to contact Schiit and see about sending it in for them to take a look at.

Excellent point, SG.

I think often long term listening is as much about training you brain to a new normal as anything.

EDIT: I am 90% sure the Yggy DAC I had at the time was not functioning properly, so I've struck my prior impressions. Hmmm.... So first impression is positive, but a bit of a mixed bag. The Yggy certainly sounds different than the Oppo, but I can't say it blew me away in quite the same way as it has others. Both the Yggy and the Oppo seem like competent DACs with different flavors. The main impression after my first night of listening was that the Yggy seems to be fatter down low and thinner (more natural?) up top than the Oppo, but that I'm not sure those differences play to the strengths of the 009s. There has been a ton of fuss about leaving the Yggy on continuously, so I figure a two week-ish audition is in order before I make a decision on whether to keep it. I'll leave her on the entire time and see if the sound changes, though I am extremely skeptical. I wish I had had a "WOW!" moment like so many others have seemed to. Is it possible this particular Yggy is a lemon? Or maybe all DACs really do sound similar. -- Other random notes: The Oppo works great as a network transport to feed PCM to the Yggy from my network shared drive, even if it is extreme overkill in that role. I didn't have a spare coax cable so I have the Oppo and Yggy connected via toslink. The only files that I haven't been able to play are 24/192 Flacs. Whether its the Oppo, Yggy or the toslink cable that is causing the issue, 24/192 files will not play unless I convert the Oppo converts them down to 24/96. I'll swing by worst-buy on my way home and grab a coax cable to see whether the toslink is at fault. I can confirm that the Oppo WILL NOT stream any audio from physical SACDs, even when it is set to convert DSD to PCM. The Oppo will however convert and play DSD files saved on my network drive. -- That is it for now. More impressions to come in a week or so.

A used Yggy just went on sale locally and I'm snagging it tonight!

What the hell is the point of popping the hood if you don't remove the plastic engine cover?

I think it'd be hard to find anyone on this site that disagrees with the idea that police accountability in all matters is paramount.

$54 a click for "insurance?" Holy guacamole. So that is where those high premiums go.

If anyone is interested, the Millbrae Pancake House is a nice place to meet up for a group breakfast before the show doors open at 10AM.