You would want to turn off the upscaling in the blu mk2 and run it into the quartet scaler as well, to take advantage of the much improved reconstruction the quartet scaler will offer.

I agree that Rob should be adding an optical connection from the new scaler to future dacs that could have that optical input, to completely solve the issue of rf noise coming from the scaler. As others said, quite a few other manufacturers have done this. I will be pretty disappointed if it...

I think 15k USD is pretty likely. I doubt it's less than 12k. there's a lot going into this product, specially with two chassis as well, its not gonna be cheap to make.

@GuiltyRocker he answered that further up the page

I had the Rockna for quite a while, considered it my endgame till I bought the Dave out of technical curiosity and ended up selling the Rockna, I posted my impressions here if you're interested https://www.head-fi.org/threads/chord-electronics-dave.766517/page-1470#post-17090341

Rob gave his opinion of square wave testing for dacs over here several days ago.

Another tip for solid state amplifiers. Coda Technologies. I haven't ever liked Pass Labs, they always sound pretty boring/dead to me. I had a Benchmark ahb-2 I liked alot more. But a year and half ago I bought a Coda No.8 and fell in love from first listen. its the best solid state speaker amp...

This is another interesting interview with Rob Some interesting tidbits. Ultima Dac will be dual chassis, separate power supply, but it will still be SMPS. but with more advanced RF filtering than before. The advancements in the new choral scaler isn't just more taps. Rob had lots of time...

You're incredibly patronizing attitude that you know better than everyone else is obnoxious. Having compared Dave to many high end dacs for extended periods of time in my own home on my own rig, I've continued to find it the best dac on the market and wouldn't trade it for anything else...

Probably, I’d let it go all the way down every once in a while. But my convenience matters too, if it hurts the battery faster to use it that way so be it

I have been considering trying one of these batteries to run my mscaler, and i figured i would leave it on all the time, and any time i wasnt listening I would plug the battery in to charge, and when i was listening i would unplug it. no need to constantly turn off the mscaler

connecting the dx outputs of one Dave into the dual bnc input of another Dave will just bypass the WTA1 stage of the second Dave which I guess you could say could improve noise as that is a large portion of the FPGA use in Dave. Many have speculated if that is one of the reasons using the...

you dont need an mscaler to get a windowed sinc function from chord, all of the dacs do this, the mscaler just uses a larger window

I bought this a few months back here on Head-Fi out of curiosity about lower end Chord dacs since all I had heard was Dave. The time has come to let it go. I think its a good sounding dac, I just don't have any real use for it. Comes with just the unit and the power supply, no original box or...

I can run my mscaler with the camera connection kit off my iPhone 13 Pro just fine. Haven’t tried with the 14 pro yet, or into the Dave direct, but I would guess it’d be the same