Chord Dave and lInear power supply

I've owned a PS Audio Directstream, Bricasti M1, Jeff Rowland Aeris, and currently own a Chord Dave DAC. The Dave may have a cheap power supply, but I have yet to hear a DAC in it's price range that I prefer in my system. That being said, I would love to do a direct comparison between the Dave, MSB Premier and Playback Design Edelweiss. At one point I considered the Aries Cerat Helene DAC, but after listening to the Aeris Cerat Incito preamp in my system I'm no longer interested.

Shkong78,

Did you buy the upgraded furutech and SR fuse with the power supply?  Based on the 3k price you paid I would assume so.

I’ve been very happy with my chord DAVE over the years but your post has me considering an upgrade.

Thanks

I bought a regular package since I can upgrade fuse later.

I found shortcoming of Dave and Mscaler when I compared it with ideon Absolute side by side at home.

Dave gave some sibilance and less decay than Ideon.

I do not have Absolute Ideon right now.

But with linear power supply, it seema to approach 90% of Ideon Absolute.

Thomas

Thanks

I’ve been looking at the Ideon Absolute as well as the Playback Designs Dream DAC.  A lot of money for those, but if I can upgrade my DAVE for far less that may be a good option.

I recently installed the Farad power supplies on my Dave.

Really transformational. I will of course try the fuse upgrades next. I am on the hunt for and m scaler now.

The retrofit is very easy and completely reversible if need be.