Chord DAVE DAC

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 

I've been most interested in the Holo May DAC. That would leave you some nice $$ to play with.

I would not buy a Chord without auditioning the Mola Mola Tambaqui as well. It omits the flashy but nonfunctional Chord aesthetics. The Mola Mola is designed by some of the leading engineers in audio today, and reportedly the sound is superb. Just saying, why not check out the competition, too?