[miketlse]

   
 
Speaking of classical, these are quite nice - I really I wish I could hear them through DAVE and 2ch LS setup!:

 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN820UnMrEY
http://youtu.be/S6yuR8efotI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTAASV_Rjl0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQoMzXIZ3M
 
 
Always loved Yo-Yo Ma's collaboration with Ennio Morricone
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBz2WrXtLlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TblFdF2lxAY
 
and his rendition of 'Meditation', from the opera 'Thaïs':
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mPmN8gDjZI

I do wish that Santa would give you a DAVE for Christmas, provided that he has left one under the tree for me first. LOL

 

[maxh22]

   
 
Speaking of classical, these are quite nice - I really I wish I could hear them through DAVE and 2ch LS setup!:
 

 
You're in luck Mython! Looks like Christmas came early for you!
 

 

[Jawed]

Black DAVEs are hard to get. Looks like it'll be February before I get mine

 

[ubs28]

Strange. For me it made no difference if I wanted the black or silver one?

 

[ubs28]

Is it best to have HF Fil On or OFF? The sound is significantly different. I think I prefer to have it ON so far.

 

[a1uc]

Got my new cradle today
 
 

 

[jelt2359]

  Got my new cradle today
 
 

Does it sound better with the better isolation?

 

[a1uc]

I'm going to hook it back up in morning

 

[Christer]

   
Nice...did you catch Yo-Yo Ma performing in Singapore a couple of weeks back? 

...about the only thing better than listening to a Dave 

No unfortunately not. I am still in Sri Lanka. But I have seen him play the Dvorak Concerto there before.
And yes my memory of DAVE is that is was one of few DACs that gets quite close to the real thing.
Shostakovich´s 10th 24/96 from Boston to name just one good recording, was basically like listening to live  mic feed via DAVE

 

[x RELIC x]

Got my new cradle today

...

I love mine. Completes the look IMO.

 

[a1uc]

I wish it was it bit higher or the Dave was
angled different , some of the 1/4 plugs are
a bit tight against the surface

 

[gnomen]

Hi gnomen, I'm not sure it is possible for any software to bypass OS X audio midi settings, it tells software such as Audirvana or Pure Music what sample rates and bit depths the DAC is cable of receiving. Pure Music is able to bypass iTunes\OS X Core Audio. When you did a bit perfect test it would have passed as your Weiss DAC probably has multiple bit depth options in audio midi setup that Pure Music is able to set depending upon the file being played. With Dave or any other Chord DAC this is not possible as OSX reads from the DAC that it can only accept a 32 bit depth.

Hi Halloweenman.  AFAIK Pure Music gets the device info from low level OS APIs, as does AMS.  When using PM you can see that it runs separately from AMS as the latter usually remains configured for system sound (so system alarms come through your Mac speakers rather than your headphones or hi-fi with potentially deafening results).  The "32-bit" is an FP container designed by Apple for all audio handling; actual bit depth is 24 max for DACs and is in integer format.  I cannot comment further as it is years since I tried Audirvana, but I would expect other audio software to work in a similar way.  BTW you can check what I am saying by downloading PM for free for the trial period.  If you do that I would be interested to hear whether you notice any SQ difference as well.
 
Cheers
 
PS I am enjoying my SLIC Innovations XLR interconnects; the Chord Signatures have not shown up yet so unable to run a complete comparison so far.

 

[Mython]

 

   
 
Speaking of classical, these are quite nice - I really I wish I could hear them through DAVE and 2ch LS setup!:
 

 
You're in luck Mython! Looks like Christmas came early for you!

 
 
 
Joking aside, I can't help thinking that headphone users of DAVE may be missing out on a good chunk of its magic.
 
Rather than restate why, it was (largely) covered in this recent post:
 

 

Just get your self a really good set of headphones,then all your problems will be over;you'll hear things that you will never hear with speakers,plus you won't upset the anybody else,just remember your audio heaven could be someone else's nightmare.

After my first month of 6 this winter in the tropics and without my electrostatic speakers I am gradually adapting to listening via headphones again.
But for the closest approach to the real thing nothing beats big accurate and transparent speakers.
Luckily I have some live classical concerts to look forward to next week.
Back home I live more than a half a mile from my nearest neighbour and only once a few summers ago, did she ask if I had recently  bought a  church  organ.
It happened to be  during a hot summer and open windows.
Headphones can be practical and very revealing of inner detail yes. But they  are nowhere near a powerful full range system in a good room as far as realism is concerned. And that is what HIFI is all about for me.

 
 
There are a good number of recordings that somehow just present themselves via speakers so much better than they do via headphones, and DAVE's spatial abilities may compound that even further.
 
This is not to say that I dislike headphones - just that they have their limitations, spatially (and, in my personal opinion, viscerally) speaking.

 

[halloweenman]

Hi Halloweenman.  AFAIK Pure Music gets the device info from low level OS APIs, as does AMS.  When using PM you can see that it runs separately from AMS as the latter usually remains configured for system sound (so system alarms come through your Mac speakers rather than your headphones or hi-fi with potentially deafening results).  The "32-bit" is an FP container designed by Apple for all audio handling; actual bit depth is 24 max for DACs and is in integer format.  I cannot comment further as it is years since I tried Audirvana, but I would expect other audio software to work in a similar way.  BTW you can check what I am saying by downloading PM for free for the trial period.  If you do that I would be interested to hear whether you notice any SQ difference as well.

Cheers

PS I am enjoying my SLIC Innovations XLR interconnects; the Chord Signatures have not shown up yet so unable to run a complete comparison so far.

Thanks Gnomen I'll give pure music a try and let you know. I'm not convinced I'm afraid as I suspect when AMS talks to a Chord DAC via the APIs you mention the information it gets back from the Chord DAC is that it can only accept a 32 bit depth hence why it only displays this option. I suspect PM and Audirvana get the same info if they do the same.

 

[Crgreen]

I see the DAVE won the Hi-Fi World USB DAC of the year, and the Hi-Fi + DAC of the year awards. Must be very gratifying for Rob.

In Hi-Fi + the dCS Vivaldi 2.0 won Network player of the year, which although it does that, is a slightly odd way of describing the whole 75 grand collection of boxes.