Long story short: I've been using a Resonessence Labs Invicta DAC as my reference for over a decade. Thankfully Invicta was more of a platform than an individual DAC (think Schiit Yggdrasil) and thus did not remain stagnant during those years. It started with the original ($3999) and evo...
In the Nordic myth of the Yggdrasil World Tree, the Norns of Fate weave at one of the underground roots. Notice that the final climb in the Hopi myth was at the 3 1/2 point. In terms of the chakra levels of consciousness, the first three were underground, again suggesting the unconscio...