Malcyg
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..........Each step taken has resulted in my system sounding progressively darker, smoother, less bright with greater depth and a very much deeper but more tightly controlled and strikingly accurate bass. There are more indicators, but I’ll ignore those for the sake of brevity and simply summarise it as seeming like a combination of the strengths of both analogue and digital without many of the weaknesses of either. All of these could be argued to be clear indicators of a progressive eradication of noise and, given that you and I have arrived at similar outcomes, mention of brightness and RF noise generators puzzles me.........
Well, your comments seem very similar to mine, so I think we are in agreement on that. It all sounds fabulous however and beyond what I ever expected. Even RWh said BluDave performance is beyond what he even dreamt was possible only 5 years ago, so we are perhaps dealing with incredibly minor stuff here in the overall scheme of things.
I apologize for crashing this thread, as I am not a Chord owner. Although - when these mystery prototypes come to market, who knows - that may change!
I respect Rob immensely, but I really struggle to characterize what we are hearing with the SE plus reference clock chain as RF noise. One of the key characteristics of noise is fatigue. As you and I have discussed on many occasions, Roy, the clock effect is the opposite of fatigue. What Ref 10 quality clocking in the digital chain preceding the DAC gives us is:
How can that be RF noise? I am indeed glad that you could demonstrate to Rob that digital sources can at least affect - if not improve, to his ears - the sound quality. Perhaps that will inform his design process going forward.
- a bigger (in all dimensions), more holographic image
- instruments that have body, texture, and a palpable physicality
- Highly improved clarity and resolution, allowing one to hear far more deeply into the music
- deeper, yet better articulated bass
- startlingly more natural voices
- and a fatigue-free treble.
Parting thought - I hope that some day, digital audio component designers, in general, will start paying the same attention to system clocks in their components (USB, ethernet, mobo) as they do to the data/word clocks. Until then, I don't see the black boxes and spaghetti going away!
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