Chord 64dac

Hi,

I also have a CEC TL1-X and a Chord DAC, the combination has been wonderful, sure the Accuphase DP-85 and the Audio Aero Capitole Special edition are a league of their own, but the Chord DAC is a wonderful piece of machinery, but you have to have at least 20 hours of break in time before you really start to listen...also I have sold my Chord to take ZANDEN which is the closest you can get to the Elgar DAC. Best regards, Joe

Really it not even in the same league as audio aero capitole
because i have seen people upgrade from audio aero to chord in audio asylum site and he said there also impovement over the capitole. However what is the ZANDEN, just wondering, never heard them before.
regards

I used the Classe dac & transport for years, switched to the EAD Ultradisc 2000 & now to the Chord. I loved the convenience of the single box EAD & believe it to be a superbly musical product. Once I had the Chord in my system however, there was absolutely no way back. As Jim says, all discs benefit from the Chord's sophisticated design: every listening session extends into the wee small hours as delight succeeds delight. Until the Chord I never even considered the possibility that redbook cd could overtake vinyl in my hierarchy. It has now.

Barry---I'm delighted that you agree with me, and for the same reasons.

I had just about given up on CDs, and still find very little of interest in available SACDs or DVD-As. If those formats are successful, the situation should change for the better, but for now I simply don't want to start duplicating what I presently have, either on LP or CD. There's not much attraction to me in old analog masters that have been trotted out to flesh out the SACD repertoire.

I happened on the Chord DAC64 purely by accident: I was in a local store that has a limited selection of CDs, and noticed issue 14 of HiFi+, a mag I'd never even heard of. Browsing through the mag, I noticed the review of the DAC64, and it appeared that here was something out of the ordinary, not the usual over-/up-sampling that is pretty common. (So I found not only a new piece of equipment, but another magazine as well. Beautifully presented, but full of typos, misspelled words, and grammatical errors, I'm sad to say.)

Later I found Delve Audio's ad on Audiogon, contacted Oliver, and bought a unit. Had to wait couple of weeks but it was certainly worth the wait. Oliver cautioned that I should play the unit constantly for at least three weeks for proper burn-in. He was right, and it just kept getting better and better. I've had the unit several months now and I swear it's still improving! I still love analog, and have no plans to abandon that format, but the Chord/CEC combo has convinced me that the depths of CD sound are just now being plumbed---in the same way that modern analog equipment is only now revealing the true quality of LPs.
Jim

Hi everyone, So did you guys try others dac as well before brought the chord. Is it really outperform twice the price dac and cd player.
regards