Chord DAVE DAC
Any owners who want to tell me more about it? I recently received an inheritance worth about 13k. I can shell out another 2 grand to get my end-game DAC with headphones. Or...maybe the wife and kids want their bathrooms renovated
Please tell me how it sounds. I don't have a dealer close-by to audition. I just want "end-game" performance so I won't have to worry. I listen to mostly .flac and .wav files with some .mp3s (320 kbps) in the mix. Only because it was hard to get those albums so I downloaded mp3s and saved money.
- Jack
I have this DAC and it is awesome. Tremendously detailed, great soundstage. I've compared to a lot of midrange DACs and it blows them away. I did add the M-scaler and didn't think it provided improvement, in fact I liked that presentation less. It has a great pre-amp function so you can run it directly into your amp. I'm running with a Decware ZMA tube amp with great results. Jerry |
Thank You! @carlsbad I’m a bit confused now...after reading what you wrote and watching this video:
is this guy misguided? maybe delusional? Weird measurements? Like I said in a previous post a while back, I’ve heard some of the "top measuring" gear featured on that site. Absolutely hated the sound. Sorry, but I don't think some cheap-looking thing from China can be all that competitive!! I'm so confused! |
I saw that. I even thought about mentioning it in my response to you above. I've always thought ASR was out to lunch. They now seem to be writing their own obituary. They remind me of shock jocks saying things they know are not true just to stir up excitement. "This $13000 DAC is easily bested by a $190 DAC." They think that any parameter they can measure is a proper parameter to evaluate stereo components by. I'll be glad to take people off the street and do a blind test between the DAVE and the $190 dac. |
asr is a misguided guy sinead means next to nothing you can hear 1 to 5 percent thd anything lower means nothing. in fact amplifiers with ultra low sinead means lots of negativre feedback which sounds bad
it is like measuring horsepower in a car which is a useless spec unless you take into acount the vehicles weight 400 hp in a 2 ton vehicle is not fast
400hp in a 1 ton vehicle is screaming fast
speci fications don't mean anything compared to sound quality
we are a chord dealer the Dave is excellent I would also consider how you feed the dac is also extremely important.
Dave and Troy Audio intellect NJ. dac and streaming experts
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