Chord M-Scaler and Should I Want One?

Just saw the YouTube of the Innuos demo of the Uber expensive Statement Gen 2 server/streamer. Can easily hear the difference between Gen 1 and Gen 2 in the video. Sounds amazing.

But the part relevant to this thread: Innuos chose the Diablo 300 for the demo, and from what I can tell in the video they used the Gryphon internal DAC module, even though they were inputting their flagship streamer that costs 4X more than the Gryphon DAC module. I am starting to understand that the more you can lift the input to the DAC, the better the output from the DAC. I know you can also “solve” the issues from the DAC side with an Uber premium DAC but the relatively modest DAC doesn’t seem to be bottlenecking the performance of the input device, in my case.

In other words, I’m happy with my Diablo DAC with a high quality input thanks to the PhoenixUSB. This sort of closes my interest off in the M Scaler, which I can see being of value in other setups, where the DAC is more jitter resistant and where the DAC isn’t a Dave level DAC or higher. Would definitely love to have that Statement Gen 2 though. Not for a pretty long while….

I think you are on to something about using m-scaler with other Chord products for best results. I always thought of it as primarily intended to elevate the performance of the Hugo TT, with diminishing returns in other applications. Here is another review from yesterday you may not have seen - 

@tom23, Koji Ghafoor is a really knowledgeable guy when it comes to what audio gear is available on the market right now. I totally trust his opinions and insight. And I’m not saying that because he gave the TT2 and M Scaler positive reviews. The guy literally spends days out of every month demoing audio gear. Wish I could do that. 
 

IMHO, the M Scaler is an absolute necessity if you’ve got either the DAVE or the TT2 because it adds so much fullness and analog character to whatever you’re listening to. But you’ve gotta go all in on using really good BNC cables and having quality LPSU’s for both the DAC and the M Scaler. Though they’re not a must have because you can get by without them, when you do the result is truly satisfying. 

"IMHO, the M Scaler is an absolute necessity if you’ve got either the DAVE or the TT2 because it adds so much fullness and analog character to whatever you’re listening to."

I own a Dave and tried the M Scaler in my system. I prefer the Dave without the M Scaler. To my ears the M Scaler makes everything sound unnatural. 

I’ve heard that quite frequently, that M Scaler works well with TT2 and nearly everyone likes this pairing but with Dave the opinions are mixed on whether M Scaler helps or not.