75A!! I had missed that! ‘Scuse me. Not the first time I have made a fool of myself online.

And then there’s the feet. Do you think the power supply will be available separately? Will it be possible to buy the Scaler bit and use a lesser power supply, or even batteries, until you can afford the fancy power-supply? After all, the M Scaler used a cheap PSU which was supposed to be...

Fantastic! Whose kitchen table are these made on!? Does the red one sound better than the black one?

I bought an MScaler as soon as it was launched, but while I can likely afford the new one it will be a 100% not buy for me. This time I will wait before I buy. If there is any hint of cable woo-woo, ferrites, RF voodoo or any other problems that should’ve been sorted before launch then my money...

It’s not remotely “hate”, that’s an absurd exaggeration. It’s perfectly reasonable criticism, that evidently other people share, some with a better sense of humour than me. I hope Chord don’t steal the remote control design that @seaice posted! If potential users don’t make their feelings and...

In the third decade of the twenty first century when you buy an extremely expensive product which claims to be state of the art it isn’t too much to expect a remote control which controls all the aspects of a product, including direct selection of a source, and expecting that remote to be in a...

Yes, the eq will be a real test. Many people will want different eq presets for the different headphones and speakers they might own, as well as wanting manufacturer endorsed settings such as Audeze offer. And wouldn’t it be nice if crosstalk was settable on the M Scaler and could be associated...

You might want to switch inputs (otherwise why has it got any?). You might want to set it up after you powered it off before going away. Some inquisitive/careless person might have pressed the balls when trying to get some music out. I did actually get a new DAVE remote. Although it doesn’t...

Take something simple like changing an input or the volume. How do you do that? It isn't at all obvious. Why aren't the controls on the DAVE labelled, using the same symbols that are just about universal for most audio/video devices? What do the coloured blobs mean on the MScaler ? Why are...

It maybe that people who listen on headphones a lot find earlier stereo recordings good because they were more biased to mono. If you check out pages 126-127 of that book you will see that the early Decca tree microphone arrangement evolved from a single mono microphone with a couple of outriggers.

Thank you! It used to be the case that to buy an MScaler you had to buy it with a Blu2 - for most people a completely redundant CD mechanism - in an over engineered and unnecessarily expensive box. After many people, including me, asked for a stand-alone MScaler one was released at much less...

Still looks like a missed opportunity to me. What’s the point of the fancy display, the controls, most of the inputs, and some of the upscaling on the DAVE once you have an MScaler or this new scaler? Why not put the DAC bit of DAVE in a simpler and cheaper box, junk the unecessary inputs and...

MScaler Dave ATC SCM50ASLT (or very occasionally Sennheise HD650s)

Thousands! If you like the Decca approach to recording, which has been well documented, (see this book) then try any of their orchestral recordings of the last twenty or so (ie digital) years. But there are many great recordings with great dynamics on many labels. Stephen Hough’s Rachmaninov 2...

That album was recorded in the 1960s on magnetic tape, and subsequently remastered using Deccas ADRM technology. Not a particularly good example of impressive dynamics imo.

And that’s before cables. You have to spend another 40% - £1400 - on top of the M Scaler to get the same cables that the designer uses. And since by all accounts the new upscaler has a separate power supply there will likely be incredibly expensive cables for that too. So, pro rata, if $15k is...

Many potential users will have more than one pair of headphones and/or use headphones and speakers. For me at least the ability to have easily selected presets would be essential. Some headphone manufacturers like Audeze also have recommended EQ for each of their models. Again, I would hope for...

Will you be able to load the EQ via USB - say from an app like Roon or REW? Or will you have fiddle with coloured balls? And will the volume be controllable via USB also, so that music players like JRiver and Roon can set it?

Nothing weird at all. There’s no credible argument that any digital source should sound any different from any other, as long as they are bit identical. What they might do is expose inadequacies in a DAC. In which case you might argue that as the Pi is an inherently low powered processor with no...

Yes, as the quote from Rob in my reply to you said, “With battery operation and optical on the M scaler there absolutely is no loop for current to flow - so the problem is completely eliminated.”

That is not correct. If the MScaler is battery powered - ie not connected to ground - then no ground loop can exist via the BNC cables, so no RF, so no need for ferrites. Rob recently confirmed this:

What battery do you use?

If a £1250 mains cable improves the sound of a £8500 DAC drawing a few watts then something is seriously wrong, in my opinion.

The MScaler should work at i This is just nonsense. The new MScaler should work optimally as supplied. As should have the current M Scaler.

Agreed. The remotes Chord supply are rubbish. The original one for the DAVE even more so since it had loads of buttons nearly all of which didn’t work. You should at least be able to directly select an input. But the USB protocol allows volume control info to be passed to the DAC and music...