801evan
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Wow you're doubling down coz you got burned. Hehe.
CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
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edwardsean
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Should we infer from your picture that this solution will entail three separate units stacked together each with its own power cord?
MvRBE10
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Yes but im my setup i use one power ac connecter. Did not want to use three spots did not have that room
Triode User
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That is good progress. What you and Mattijs are doing for the Dave is really interesting and clever. A lower priced power supply for the Dave is such a good idea. I really hope I get to hear this.
In my second system I used the Farad Super3 to power my Qutest and I must say I loved the sound of the combination having tried many other LPS before settling on the Super3. A few months ago I swopped in a DC4 to power the Qutest (I just used the 5V output from my Dave DC4) and it really was an ‘Oh, My Goodness. Wow!’ moment compared to the Super3. I even felt the combined DC4 + Qutest cost was a viable alternative to DACs of the same total price. Unfortunately I sold the Qutest before the latest ARC6 version of the DC4 was available so could not repeat the test with that.
801evan
1000+ Head-Fier
Forget to mention further, for Susvara, the combination setting is HF ON, and crossfeed on.
HF ON cuts the ringing in the upper mids. Crossfeed adds a much welcomed mid bass and adds imaging. It then sounds glorious on hard pan albums. Enjoy.
MvRBE10
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This week gonna upgrade my test set with rodium inlets and these new purple fuses en changing some connector. This will be the full options version. Always been hesitant of the impact of fuses. In my early days was design engineer for littlefuse netherlands did alot of physical tests and calculation on degredation of fuses but back than never linked it to sound quality. Eager to hear the effect on that.
Personaly would elimante the fuse totally but for consumers thats not an option.
Personaly would elimante the fuse totally but for consumers thats not an option.
801evan
1000+ Head-Fier
Planning to take out the fuse on the hypsos and use quality inlets. It couldnt beat a sub 150usd sparkos psu which I didn't incorporate a fuse on.
MvRBE10
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Also had the hypsos on my tt2 when getting the dave it was not needed any more but was a fine lps and handy with the variable voltages.
801evan
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How was the delta with the hypsos tt2 and the Dave farad mod?
MvRBE10
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Got a few pages of review for you, just in the middle of the test and finalizing phase of the setup. Basicly the same improvements as the dc4 but not compared them. Gonna do that this year for sure with nick. Can pm you the whole review.
x RELIC x
Headphoneus Supremus
Adding a power supply to the DAVE will not increase the power output of the DAVE. I wish people will realize that more bass is not exclusively the domain of more power. It’s correlation, not causation. Reminds me of a certain situation with a horse parasite treatment and a certain pandemic virus, type of argument…
MvRBE10
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Absolutely true, was waiting till someone adressed it. Also regarding the design of the dave what determens the output wattage not the lps or smpt supply these only add or take away noise and or ripple etc….
Not to drift too far into a sound science forum topic but perhaps us as listeners hone/change/mature our abilities and when we return to chains we've dismissed in the past it becomes enlightening. Back to our regularly scheduled bedlam.
