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

jackhifiguy

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?   :-)

@kneptune 

Yes and this is not an uncommon occurrence. People kindly  respond with good and worthwhile recommendations. The Original poster just vanishes away. Indeed, what was the point?

Charles