Chord DAVE DAC

Better remodel those bathrooms man, or it will cost you even more when the wife finds out. 

@melm 

IMO, though, Chord products are the most cheaply built (except for their cases), overpriced DACs on the market.  The DAVE has a very inexpensive to make switch-mode power supply and at the heart of its analog stage are two $1.50 TI chips.

Noteworthy.

Charles

i would have to say, in my own experience, the chord hugo tt2 with m scaler is one of my favorite sounding dacs i have experienced through my extensive dac journey since covid shut us in in early 2020, when i finally implemented music streaming, and thus have been running the gauntlet of dacs, priced high and low

certainly expensive, certainly well marketed, i don’t know too much about what goes on inside, maybe it contains some cheapo parts nestled within those sexy machined cases with colored baubles, but to me, this combo is one of the very small handful of best sounding dacs i heard, and one which i still choose to own - so to me, they did get something right, and maybe the most important thing

@curiousjim 

Thanks. Being a smart-ass since a child I got a lot of grief for it… but as an adult, a lot of laughs.

I love how these type of posts end.

They are like watching a good movie and then the last minute is deleted, no ending, leaving everyone hanging.  No one knows what happened and what the results were - which is what everyone was trying to contribute to in the first place.   

In the end, why did the thread exist in the first place?   :-)