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 |
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. |
@yogi42 I admit my DAC is the most expensive component in my system: Amp $6K Streamer $5k Speakers $9K DAC $13K That is on purpose. The DAC is where the most important stuff happens. ASR thinks they can measure some parameter and characterize a dac with a number. conversion from Digital to analog is like translating a language. Write me an algoritm to measure the accent of a German text translated to Swahili? So I listened to a lot of DACs and bought the best one. I started with my speakers, went through about 5 amps, and 3 streamers. I guess I got to the right DAC after 4. Jerry |
