Many thanks. I don’t even know how I missed almost half a page of info! Looking in to that Farad Dave alternative now.
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Will do…. You’re only ‘up the road’ from me so I’d love to get together to make the comparisons. Cheers
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Cool. I look forward to that.Will do…. You’re only ‘up the road’ from me so I’d love to get together to make the comparisons. Cheers
MvRBE10
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You prob end up with one of these, making a batch now. Killing some time..Will do…. You’re only ‘up the road’ from me so I’d love to get together to make the comparisons. Cheers
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So are you a ‘Member of the Trade’ now?
MvRBE10
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No stopped trading few years ago with jap cars and engine stuff. Its just for fun and joy now and for you guys that also are loving this hobby. No gains hereSo are you a ‘Member of the Trade’ now?
on the startup i make the machining parts got a cutting machine here for small things so in this beginning stage i use my dave as develop item so mattijs can focus on the electronics and maybe later let these inlets be made i china or somewere else. Just making 10 or 20 of these dc inlets. All for good fun.
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Way too much but it’s a hobby that hurts no one and brings pleasure to the owner. Compared to gambling or drugs or womanizing I’d say our silly expenditures are not too expensive at all!How much are you spending on your linear PS?
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Can’t do this with the Farad board installed!
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You see those two black caps on the dave board. We were windering these are also colering the sound and are really cheap. If all is settled is was thinking of replaciing them for decent ones. At the end they also determan the sound. Ps cool array of caps. What was the main thing you noticed!
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Everything got better! I call it the arc6 plus!
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I am a new Dave owner and would like to keep my 5 year Chord warranty in place.
I am not doubting that this could be a nice step up, but I also like to having a warranty for a fairly expensive piece of audio gear in the unlikely event of a failure.
I am not doubting that this could be a nice step up, but I also like to having a warranty for a fairly expensive piece of audio gear in the unlikely event of a failure.
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Than you should not do any of the changes we recommend in here. Just the powercord and ac filtering is left icw maybe a bnc cable upgrade.
As far as I know, there isn't a piece of tape or a marker that breaks upon opening the DAVE case. You can always just put the old power supply in, and it's back to being a regular DAVE. But yeah, it is a risk, so I can see people being a little concerned with it. My DAVE was a few year old, so it wasn't a big deal to me
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Yup, I understand!
I worked for a well know mod company for over 15 years and did a lot of soldering so I DO believe in mods, just not on a my own brand new $$$ DAC!!!
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