Thanks Rob for the ultra fast response. Since the speakers will be used in a near field computer desktop setting (about a feet away from my ears), would it be a safe assumption that the TT2 balanced output can handle the load? Yes, the Voxativ sounds marvelous with the Dave indeed. Best, Jason

Hi Rob, I came across your post and hope this is the right place to ask the question. I am considering driving the Cessaro Mini Wagner with the Chord Hugo TT2, but it sounds underpowered with the RCAs outputs. I then found out that the Wagners are 83 dB at 4 Ohm, which means that I will need to...

It would be very helpful if those who own or tested extensively side by side the BluDave and PS Audio Directstream set out: (a) the type and genre of music they used to compare the two DACs; and (b) the speakers / headphones being used. That would be more conducive to a comparison especially to...

It is likely to be your particular unit. When I received my first Dave, I used the Hifiman HE1000 and HE6 with the headphone output. After a while, serious distortion on loud passages manifested itself in the right channel. The distortion sounded like clipping. I emailed Chord's customer support...

What a coincidence, I’m using the BluDAVE with the Omega CAMs and JL Audio F112v2 as well. Works wonderfully. Amazing bass which integrates really well with the CAMs.

My Utopias have responded very well to upstream improvements for the DAVE. Let me preface this by saying that I haven't been using the Utopias for a long time. Until my most recent listen, I felt that Utopias had a bit of bloated mids, a severely constricted sound-stage and a cavernous...

Thanks Rob for your response. My apologies for going through questions that have been covered before. The issue I face however is that I am driving speakers directly from the BluDave, and this translates to having to play sounds at around 0 dB to +4 dB. Hope this does not translate to...

I am comparing the Dave alone with the BluDave and I find consistently that while dynamics and overall sound quality are improved, the volume I am getting out of the BluDave is a few dB less than straight through the USB. Anyone have the same observation? I am connecting my Dave/BluDave from my...

I have not compared the two. It will require me to lug 15 kg worth of equipment being the BluDave back to my office which I haven’t done yet. My post was not intended to compare my headphone system to my speaker system, it was purely to clarify an earlier post of mine that the effect of the...

I haven’t tried ferrite cores yet. There is an issue about dropouts though (not sure if this is the right term), I hear slight milli-second long dropouts during playback. I switched my BNC input to nos 3 and 4, as recommended here, and it seemed to have gone away, but then it came back again. It...

Last time I wrote about my initial impressions of the BluDave, I took the view that I was less impressed by it on my speaker rig compared to its astonishing effect on my HE90 headphones. I have since upgraded the digital front end at home with a SOtM sCLK-EX clocked SOtM sMS-1000SQ server...

Thanks Triode. For the sake of not misleading anyone into thinking that the BluDave sounds sub-par with speakers, let me just clarify this. I think the BluDave's improvement with speakers is worth it, but just less significant compared to the improvements it delivers to my headphone setup. There...

I've received the Blu 2 and have tried the BluDave on my speaker rig at home (to Omega CAMs directly with HFC Ultimate Ref RCAs) and headphones at work (to DIYT2 and Sennheiser Orpheus HE90). I must say that the improvements are immediately noticeable. It seems wrong to put it this way, but the...

Hi Roy, Good to hear from you again on Head-Fi. I certainly don't doubt what you are hearing. Your findings have influenced many of us here and on other forums. My decision to buy the DAVE was based on your recommendation. I have since brought my DAVE over for some of my audiophile friends to...

May of SOTM told me and Roy separately that my SMS-1000SQUltra can benefit from an outboard tX-USBultra. That is even though the SMS-1000SQ already has a separate tX-USBexp module that's clocked by their new super clock sCLK-EX. Not sure why that's the case.