Chord Dave - Missing soundstage width

Thanks all, brilliant answers.I really wish there was a like button.
I have some mullard NOS tubes from the 60' in the input stage, really made a positive difference

I also found that streaming to a Lumin U1 mini in front of my Qutest DAC sounded so much better than directly from a laptop running either Roon or Audivana...

Thank you very much for the
Cut: Gypsy Nights
Artist: Craig Chaquico

And Touch by Yello

Wide soundstage and interesting music....

By the way think about embedding the audio system’s components before spending for upgrading them...

Mechanical resonance embedding, electrical embedding, and acoustical embedding are very important more impactful than " almost" any change in electronic component even dac or in some case speakers.......

If I would reveal what my dac is and at what cost you would be insulted....

And I listen to details and wide soundstage with depth and with all the music out of the speakers in nearfield or in regular listening...Priced component are generally better but embedding rightfully a low cost good component is way more impactful than buying a costlier one without controlling the embedding rightfully most of the times...

Wide soundstage..

SRV tin pan alley ( the roughest place in town)

all of Santana Abraxas 

I agree on the tin pan Alley rec. The archives version is awesome. 

If you are looking at the Dave I would recomend trying the Bartok. While it is a bit more expensive it has a network streamer builtin as well. Plus dCS updates the firmware with improvements over time as well. I owned a TT2 and mscaler I had auditioned the Bartok and dave and preferred the Bartok it presented a bigger sound stage and more realistic imaging. 

Maybe take a look at the MSB discrete too. My friend had a premire that was fluly upgraded and it was amazing. He traded it up to the reference which I can't wait to hear.