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Do you mind summarising Ted's and others advice about DAVE?
Regarding waiting for the next model, the obvious downside of that strategy is that there is always a next model. And in the meantime, you're making do with something less than you could have. We've all been there. What happens when Chord announces in 2018 the incredible 1 tera tap "TT-Scaler" that is not quite compatible with whatever model combination you bought in 2017?
Having said that, I agree that it's still a rather confusing limbo time for existing and budding DAVE owners. We could do with a more helpful statement of intent from the Chord team. Along the lines of the USB input added to the Blue-2 that made everyone happier. Remember Chord, this is not a "problem", it's an "opportunity"!
Well,it is quite a while ago. But I think you are summing it up quite well in your own post.
I think Ted was of the opinion that staying on top was much too costly and any real audible benefits of doing so were not really that big anyway.
He also mentioned that not even cars depreciate in value as much as second hand DACs.
He also opined that upsampling might possibly be both better and more cheaply done in software than in überexpensive DACs if I remember correctly.