Chord Dave

After 2 years owning the Dave I finally tried to go singleended (rca) from Dave to Diablo. Quite a step up. Then I changed Dave to preamp mode and set input 3 in Diablo to AV - connection, thus skipping the Diablo preamplifier. This also a step up and now I really understand how good the Dave is. Should have done it long ago.
The conversion in Dave from unbalanced to balanced is not good enough. Better to use singleended. 
I moved the xlr-cables from Dave to the Scorpio cd-player, so going directly to Diablo. But it doesn’t provide the rhythm, attack, speed and 3-d like the Dave does. 
Thomas

Pitching in to add a bit-from @verdantaudio post: 
"  In a non-covid world, the Dave is in line to be update to a Dave 2 but that is not that close and is probably still a couple years away. "
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/how-do-i-feed-the-chord-dave-tt2-plus-m-scaler-a-better-choic...

The comparison / listing of previous generation gear is  noteworthy as well ... for more insight though  some may enjoy input from ' the man ' himself Robb Watts. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyjsSYjnL8&t=938s

Also a Review and discussion of the differences in Chord components
from Passion for Sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzUsEp_eRfQ

Hey guys, considering a Dave.  You all still loving yours?  

Wish I would of never sold mine!!!