Chord Dave or Ayre QX5 Twenty DAC???

Hi czubero
I use the PA 3000HV to power Wilson Audio Alexia’s. No problems here, sounds great. Can definitely put cracks in the walls if I wanted. 
As far as Tidal playback, it is so dynamic & detailed. Really impressive. Excellent recoded SACD’s sound really really good, just different than Tidal. With the Alexia’s I prefer Tidal over most CD’s. With my Sasha’s, they both sounded really good. I believe the Alexia’s are just more revealing. 

Update on servers...The Memory Player is the player that's now in the lead on the Best DAC for CD thread.  Matt, who is the OP and has kept the thread going for a few years now just bought it.  I will probably also get it.  Just alot of amazing servers and DAC's out there in all price ranges.

Hi Musicfx, Wow, Nice speakers those Alexias. I have heard them about a year ago with Accuphase separates. One of the best sound I have ever heard, very balanced and precise sound from top to bottom, at that time my friend used valhalla 2 speaker cables with the Alexias. The reason I went with Sopras No 3 is because I like them how beautiful they sounded with Hegel and the nice discount I got from the Dealer.
Thank You

Hi Musicfx, this was a response from T+A support I would like to share, in certain way match your findings:

"with both devices you have a very good performance. The sound quality of both devices is nearly the same! If you don’t need a streaming client unit for internet radio or/and playing audio files from a USB HDD or NAS server and if a very heavy and high quality CD-tray mechanism is important for you, then I want to recommend PDP3000HV. If the streaming client function is more important for you than a very heavy tray mechanism, then I want to recommend MP3100HV. Of course MP3100HV supports a high quality tray mechanism too, but a bit more light construction than PDP3000HV.

I hope, these informations are helpful. If you have some more questions, don’t hesitate to contact me again."

Musicfx, finally pulled the trigger on the MP3100HV. Do you connect it to your router via wifi or Ethernet? Have you compare SQ on both connections? Thanks in advance.