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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.

Isn't that a good thing? Welcome to using free software.

Instructions for how to skip the "line" and upgrade right now.

Just did a clean install to de-gunk my drives. Working great.

I'm hoping at least one exhibitor has some super efficient speakers to show off. I'm considering picking up one of Craig's amps to run both dynamic headphones and speakers. It looks like some of his amps do 3W @ 8 ohms while the new Studio will double that up to 6W. At the very least I'd probably want a speaker with > 90dB/W/m, right?

I plan on being there Saturday the 15th.

Happy first birthday! -- My old gal, Sushi, turns 17 in October! She has been an indoor cat basically the entire second half of her life which seems to have kept her in good health. She is still as fussy, affectionate and spry as she was 5-10 years ago.

Finished this piece of Schiit last night: Jason's book is pretty darn good. Better than it has any right to be. I really enjoyed reading it. Jason is a decent writer and he is a natural at sharing his experiences in and out of the audio world. I'd heartily recommend this one. 4/5. Can't say it has me interested in his sci-fi books though

I've been running the preview for the last month and it is pretty solid.

Thanks for sharing, Andy. I'm looking forward to mine showing up. I'm 2/3s of the way through Jason's book and I'm happy to support Schiit.

I went ahead and put in a reminder in my calendar to call a year from now as soon as the "promotional" rates end for this very reason.

Nice, also called comcast and got them to cut my bill more than 35%! It is still an absurd amount, but at least it isn't the ridiculous sum it was before.

Well that sure was easy. Plugged the SB in when I got home and got a prompt within 5 minutes to get it set up on my account. Working like a charm!

PSA: Stay the fuck away from the iOS 9.0 public beta. In its current form it is quite a mess. Worst problem? At least a solid 25% of my apps flat out do not work on it, including Plex and the Oppo app I use to control my BDP-105. They also completely screwed up the podcasts app. -- I've been having much better success with the El Capitan beta on my work computer. The full-screen snap feature works really well. You can also set the top menu bar to auto hide!!!!!!

So relaxing. Just what I needed.

Thanks for making this thread, DC. 6141 purchased. Shitty comcast modem will be returned to them as soon as it shows up.

Lowered it a good 2 to 3 inches.

So I've been reading Jason's blog over at head-fi. I have to say, I'm really enjoying it. The guy is nothing if not determined. He also seems pretty honest.

I have now! Wow. Also impressive looking! -- After meets I tend to browse the forums and see whether my subjective impressions matched up with the crowd. Browsing Tyll's site, I came across this video of Frank Cooter talking about the amp at a Southern California meet. Very cool and worth a watch. Boy are we ever lucky to have guys like Frank Cooter in our hobby.