I don’t believe in absolutes in audio, but in my system I prefer the Dave without the M-Scaler. In my opinion the Dave sounds "artificial" with the M-Scaler...in other words, something just didn’t sound right. I’m sorry I can’t provide a better description.
DAVE w/ or w/out M Scaler?
DAVE alone or DAVE + M Scaler?
May I have the opinions of those with either configuration?
i currently run DAVE alone. Cheers and stay well
May I have the opinions of those with either configuration?
i currently run DAVE alone. Cheers and stay well
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The M-Scaler gives you more. More detail. More air. Better separation. A little smoother of sound but like ricred1 said, it is not absolutely certain this will make the sound better to your ears. Most customers have been quite happy to add an m-scaler to their Dave. I have yet to have a return. The general rule is...the better and more refined the DAC, the more an M-scaler does to change the sound. And this goes for non-Chord DACs. It was designed for the "TableTop" series from Chord so it is naturally intended to max out sound quality from a TT2 but arguably does even more for a Dave. Most Dave customers follow up and get an M-Scaler. We have a 30 day return policy. Your obligation is return shipping to NJ. |
Why bother with an m scaler ehen you can do the same thng in roon for less we are importing a fast roon core from belgium thatsounds amazing Fof 3k you get a state of the art roon corehttps://432evo.be/index.php/432-evo-standard-music-server/ https://youtu.be/m_sYbgFvUOg Dave and Troy Audio intellect Nj Us importer 442 evo music servers |
@verdantaudio scott i am curious to know if the m scaler function aids/does not aid throwback r2r or nos r2r dacs... seems on the surface of it that the m scaler is a high-computing-power upscaler, so fundamentally not compatible with/helpful to dacs designed on non-oversampling philosophy, correct? or maybe this is one of these cases where the reality is counter-intuitive? |
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