"...Review is just review, not your parents or teacher/mentor or GOD..." Ken, i wish that is thrue. Stereophile unfortunately, is THE most influential magazine in the U.S.! I will quote David Solomon VP Sales & Marketing
Musical Fidelity USA, from Manufacturers Comments in July issue: "...due to the UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND, we were actually out of stock for some time,..." Can Richard Gray say the same thing?
I DO NOT own any of the CHORD products, but i am familiar with past products designed by Rob Watts, who in fact designed DAC64 for Chord (see my Audiogon post in "dCS or Chord64")I also raised the question ( Letter to Stereophile) regarding "unfavorable" reviews being reserved
for companies out of "circle of friends and FAVORS". And Stereophile reviewers have been consistant in that regard.
Past year I've been in sort of, shopping spree for a new DAC and i auditioned countless of products including products of lower spectrum as Musical Fidelity and Chord, that is not as cheap as MF, but still reasonable. Chord DAC64 does not reproduce or make bloated bass! Musical Fidelity performers are 3' tall, Chord performers are realisticaly portrayed! I ask anyone who have chance to listen Chord to do so, and not to compare it with MF but with the Mark Levinson 360 and dCS Purcell. If sounds good, it must be good! Right?
Musical Fidelity USA, from Manufacturers Comments in July issue: "...due to the UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND, we were actually out of stock for some time,..." Can Richard Gray say the same thing?
I DO NOT own any of the CHORD products, but i am familiar with past products designed by Rob Watts, who in fact designed DAC64 for Chord (see my Audiogon post in "dCS or Chord64")I also raised the question ( Letter to Stereophile) regarding "unfavorable" reviews being reserved
for companies out of "circle of friends and FAVORS". And Stereophile reviewers have been consistant in that regard.
Past year I've been in sort of, shopping spree for a new DAC and i auditioned countless of products including products of lower spectrum as Musical Fidelity and Chord, that is not as cheap as MF, but still reasonable. Chord DAC64 does not reproduce or make bloated bass! Musical Fidelity performers are 3' tall, Chord performers are realisticaly portrayed! I ask anyone who have chance to listen Chord to do so, and not to compare it with MF but with the Mark Levinson 360 and dCS Purcell. If sounds good, it must be good! Right?