Audiotroll:
You want members come to my place and listen to my system, go to Audiodoctor and listen to your system and vote on which is better? Are you insane? Guess what, nobody cares. tpreaves hit the nail on the head.
It's 996Cupracer's thread, not ours.
Once again, my apologies to him. And yes Audiotroll, I agree--we can and should both move on. But, wait--- I see you already have. Why just this morning, having tired of selling here, you've moved on to a thread where the OP asked for help for what he said had "come down to 2 choices" for a dac-- the Chord Dave or the Ayre QX5.
For those still enjoying (not) this thread, here is Audiotroll's response to that very specific question:
"I got no skin in the game but know of and have heard both of these companies fine products, both have some good strengths, we used to sell Chord and do not now sell them so we have no skin in the game nor do we sell Ayre.
There is one advantage that the Chord Dave has the Aqua Hifi Dac have that the Ayre doesn't.
The Chord is FPGA based and is easy to update, the Forumla is designed on all separate boards and Aqua has shown they can and will offer reasonably priced updates, I haven't heard the Forumla but we have the Lascala and it is excellent I haven't heard the Forumla I will say that the Lascalla is excellent. So one thing I would ask with the Ayre, is how easy would it be to upgrade?
Aside from sound quality, ease of upgrading, in the turbulent world of digital is a very good thing.
For those on the East Coast we, Audio Doctor have one of the largest collections of digital gear on display: we display: Lumin, Aurender, Mytek, Aqua, EMM Labs, Light Harmonic, Baetis, Cary Audio, T+A, Nad, Naim, Nuprime and a few others. For those who haven't heard the Light Harmonic Davinci is amazing and we have one of these rare dacs!
Troy
Audio Doctor
www.audiodoctor.com old website new one coming soon"
I ask anyone still here:
Does Audiotroll's approach to the OP's query seem familiar?
Audiotroll:If you hijack anymore threads, you'll be placed on the no fly list with the Department of Homeland Security. As for your request to drop this back and forth here, I agree, let's stop now. It's all good.
You want members come to my place and listen to my system, go to Audiodoctor and listen to your system and vote on which is better? Are you insane? Guess what, nobody cares. tpreaves hit the nail on the head.
It's 996Cupracer's thread, not ours.
Once again, my apologies to him. And yes Audiotroll, I agree--we can and should both move on. But, wait--- I see you already have. Why just this morning, having tired of selling here, you've moved on to a thread where the OP asked for help for what he said had "come down to 2 choices" for a dac-- the Chord Dave or the Ayre QX5.
For those still enjoying (not) this thread, here is Audiotroll's response to that very specific question:
"I got no skin in the game but know of and have heard both of these companies fine products, both have some good strengths, we used to sell Chord and do not now sell them so we have no skin in the game nor do we sell Ayre.
There is one advantage that the Chord Dave has the Aqua Hifi Dac have that the Ayre doesn't.
The Chord is FPGA based and is easy to update, the Forumla is designed on all separate boards and Aqua has shown they can and will offer reasonably priced updates, I haven't heard the Forumla but we have the Lascala and it is excellent I haven't heard the Forumla I will say that the Lascalla is excellent. So one thing I would ask with the Ayre, is how easy would it be to upgrade?
Aside from sound quality, ease of upgrading, in the turbulent world of digital is a very good thing.
For those on the East Coast we, Audio Doctor have one of the largest collections of digital gear on display: we display: Lumin, Aurender, Mytek, Aqua, EMM Labs, Light Harmonic, Baetis, Cary Audio, T+A, Nad, Naim, Nuprime and a few others. For those who haven't heard the Light Harmonic Davinci is amazing and we have one of these rare dacs!
Troy
Audio Doctor
www.audiodoctor.com old website new one coming soon"
I ask anyone still here:
Does Audiotroll's approach to the OP's query seem familiar?
Audiotroll:If you hijack anymore threads, you'll be placed on the no fly list with the Department of Homeland Security. As for your request to drop this back and forth here, I agree, let's stop now. It's all good.