Well I can agree to disagree with both yourself and Mr Watts on that one. :)

I totally agree, your comments perfectly sum up the differences between Dave and TT2 for me, again I don't listen to headphones, this is where the rest of the system and particularly the listening environment may influence our preferences, but I seem to recall Rob Watts, either here or in the...

I was never really totally engaged with the DCS sound, however after listening to a Vivaldi Apex based system at a dealers I changed my mind. As the happy owner of a Chord based system it's hard to admit, but in my opinion the digital end of music reproduction is moving on at pace and I...

You're lucky to be able to demo the Wadax, very few dealers have a Wadax system set up. I've heard a Wadax based system in a private home three times in the past year, I say system because any DAC irrespective of it's cost is only one component within a total system. The owner of the Wadax...

That was my finding, I've always felt input3/4 sounded best, if memory serves me correctly, one theory put forward was proximity of the BNC inputs to the PSU.

I heard rumours that the new SuperScaler would be launched in 2023, but........ You can hear a rumour, but if you can't see it, it almost certainly is one. :)

I've been using Luxman amp's in my Dave/MScaler set up for some time, I've had the 507U, 509x and currently the M10x power amp and use the DAVE's pre amp directly to the M10X. Coming from tube amp's I'd definitely recommend listening before you decide, the older U and X models were extremely...

Agreed that's too cheap, I recently sold one of my Dave's, 3 years old and got £6500. IMO Dave is as stated still the best DAC at it's price, but over the last few months I've auditioned a number of DAC's, all at a higher price point than the DAVe, if you have between £15k and £30k there are...

A few albums that show off the virtues of the MScaler in my speaker set up,, Tierney Sutton-After Blue, Ben Harper-Welcome To The Cruel World, Chris Jones-Roadhouse And Automobiles, The Eagles-Hell Freezes Over, Gillian Welch -Soul Journey, Nick Drake-Pink Moon, Fink-Biscuits For Breakfast...

Contact Chord, either through a regular dealer if you have one, or go directly to Chord, they have a good record of repairing their products, in some cases if just out of warranty for no charge, if not their repairs appear to be relatively inexpensive, especially for the HiFi industry.

If memory serves me correctly, unlike the MScaler the TT2 does not automatically go into standby mode, certainly my Dave does not, but from a performance perspective I choose to leave Dave powered up 24/7.

I have my MScaler on a shelf on my solid oak hifi rack, each shelf is isolated on spiked feet. I then have the MScaler sitting on Stillpoints Mini SS isolation footers, which in turn are sitting on Black Ravioli Pads. Initially I tried the Iso Acoustics Orea, but I found they flattened the...

If Wave cables hadn't been an option, then that's the way I would have gone, it's the correct solid core ferrites that are important, expensive BNC cables, however well shielded may not offer the benefits of cheaper cables fitted with the correct ferites.

I have no idea of how PS Audio dac's work, but having listened to a Perfect Wave dac and more recently the Direct Stream model, I can't say I cared for the sound of either unit and I say this as the very happy owner of a PS Audio Perfect Wave sacd transport.

I understand his son Daniel is currently at university and is studying for a music, recording related degree. Rob has mentioned in a number of posts that his son is involved in his work, both listening evaluations and live recording.