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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Interesting. I’ve never once felt digital captured the dynamic range of an orchestra. Having been to thousands of concerts over the past...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I tried going pure digital and solid state for a few years, no vinyl and no tubes. Partly it was because I moved from the east coast to...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.The UK will get over this, I’m sure (although I hear Boris might be back, like the famous Roman general Cincinatus who he quoted on his...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Being in my early 60s, I can relate. My first high end system was purchased in 1987, 35 years ago. My hearing was far better then. 😄 But...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I was tempted to get one of the MSB DACs, as they’re also highly regarded, but their pricing for their high end models is stratospheric...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I owned the dCS stack 25 odd years ago — it was the Verdi transport, the Purcell clock and the Elgar Plus ring DAC. At that time, dCS...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I figured you guys would be offended by that hard hitting review of the Dave, but nothing he said surprised me. He mentioned serious RF...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Hope it performs better than the Dave, which got (rightly) slammed on audioscience.com for a disappointing set of measurements...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Ugh, no thanks. I find the sound of the Dave a bit too clinical to use with typical solid state gear with even warm sounding speakers...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Since I got my Lampi Pacific, my Blu2/Dave hardly get any use. 😀 I can’t bring myself to sell them yet, so they sit in a corner. The...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I think the notion of “better” is in the eye of the beholder. What do you mean by better”? For example, you could say “better” means...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Folks, I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but for all you DYI modders, you do realize Chord has infinitely more design experience and...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.Wow, humans have an insatiable desire to tweak. Can’t leave things the way they were designed. 😀
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.All upscaling is a compromise. You win some and you lose some. Think of a visual analogy. Let’s say you have an old DVD of a movie you...
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Ssm60 replied to the thread CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE.I went through this same journey with my first CD player in 1986! Back then, as a young twenty something, I was in grad school working...
