That sound great. What improvement could you recall when putting the Blu2 on a separate circuit and on your RSA Dimitri. i felt putting Blu2 on a separated circuit/isolation transformer and not mixing it with digital gear would yield further benefit I will experiment putting the Blu2 on a...

Do you plug the HMS into the same circuit as your other gear?

Was this relaxed texture closer to MSB presentation that you have heard before? MSB sound signature is very relaxed and especially densed for MSB Select 2 model.

So there is no difference in bass or clean treble when using DC4 for Mscaler? I guess thats the difference for the digital side. Can you define more about this "shift in soundstage" ? the sound stage got deeper, wider or more holographic? Hopefully it will emerge as the burn in settle.

I think the Chord was KO because you have no pre amp. The MSB stack must have had the preamp and volume control built in option along with mono power base?

Please let us know what improvement do you have when the 2nd DC4 arrive. I also had a DC4 powering my Dave and assessing situation for the 2nd one for Blu2/HMS. Just out of curiousity, which MSB DAC did you compare to? Was the Dave + HMS far off? Was the HMS powered by LPS?

How are you liking the Nordost BNC?

I think many user would like to know possible modification done to Dave PSU. Please kindly share publicly even it affiliated to some shop.

Keyword is cost not stupidity. Chord is not stupid but they want profit. Yes keep listening to music please.

I have tried on 500lbs speaker per channel if that qualified as big. :-D

We can all agree that timbre and tonal is not Chord strong suits. What Chord Dave + Blu2 excells is separation, dynamic, depth, soundstaging and details. None of the impression mentioned keyword like timbre, tonal, image density, flow, timing which i believe DAC like MSB select 2, Aries Cerat...

Be careful of what you are in doubting. Chord comrades cant tolerate a member who is in doubt.

Please stay. I love the stupidity of your attacker. It is like my everyday morning coffee.

You must be kidding. My Chord Dave is immune to Source, power cable and USB cable. Its eliteness overshadow digital source relevance (according to a elite cable maker) Whats this non-sense that the top DAC need a separate PSU?

This cant be true. This guy cant be hearing correctly. Chord is da best. This is madness!!!

You guys never cease to amaze me.

Great news for new buyer of M Scaler and custom LPS producer.

I seriously doubt the quality of the original PSU of HMS to match any of Paul Hynes or Uptone creation.

From audiobacon.net External Power Supply Could be powered by an external power supply (9-15V). By far, my favorite new feature. The implication: You could use a portable battery or a custom LPS such as the Paul Hynes SR4. For those who realize the sonic gains of having a better power supply...

Now you got to try different LPS. Much better option than the one in Blu2.

Lower cost yes. Higher spec yes. Both together no. Then no one would buy flag ship product from Chord ever.

Rob Watt has been aware of RFI problem for a long time so both output and input has been galvanic isolation, maybe external power are the solution Your statement already contradict it self. With Blu2 we would need WAVE cable or streamer to equal the performance of Hugo M-Scaler. Also i said...

No i cant understand from the"enjoying the music" perspective then if the Blu2 is good now then Hugo M Scaler is not gonna change it. For headphone user the Dave and Hugo 2 TT probably not gonna make much of a difference as well as the USB galvanic isolation or Toslink input . For Hi-end...

You probably have a very different perspective when buying hi-end equipment. I expect more when buying flagship electronics and somehow got outperformed by lower end equipment with cheaper price. Imagine hugo 2 TT has a better feature than Dave. It would be ridiculous to me.