CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE

[analogmusic]

Thank you too Rob for your FPGA/WTA technology that give me much musical enjoyment every day.

 

[Rob Watts]

Thank-you for your kind comments.
 
This year has been very crazy, with lots of different projects. One in particular I am looking forward to talking about at CES, as it has been very interesting. I haven't made as much progress on Davina as I had hoped, but I am back on that project now. I also regret not being able to post as much as I would have liked, but I have been very busy. But although incredibly busy - more so than at any other time in my life - things are very exciting. I think and hope that 2017 will prove to be an extremely interesting year, with lots of fresh discoveries and insights in the pipeline.
 
Anyway, I can't help feeling very thankful for all the progress in musicality that has been made over the past three years, and I would like to extend my thanks to all the team at Chord, notably Matt, who has the difficult task of turning my designs into something that can be reliably produced!
 
We live in very fortunate times with access to so much music that I personally can now enjoy absolutely anywhere, and for this I am grateful and thankful. I bought myself a Christmas present a few days ago - a 5TB portable hard disk (5TB - isn't that just stunning? my first hard disk was 20MB!!!)- and the 3 volumes of Mercury Living Presence, the RCA Living Stereo Vol 1, and the new DG David Ostrackh Edition box set. I had one of his recordings on Decca The Analogue Years box set (highly recommended - there is something very magical about Decca from 1957 to 1967), and his sheer verve and expression meant I had to try some more of his recordings. 
 
So happy holidays, and have fun with your music!
 
Rob

 

[Beolab]

Thanks for everything Rob, you are a true hero incl John and Matthew and the rest on Chord E!

On My wish list from Santa Rob it says a low end feature, in say 3 steps that boost the sound in 20 , 30, 40 hz would be great for a more dynamic performance frome DAVE if this is possible would have been great in the future

I wich you all an wonderful Christmas, and a happy new year!

:santa_tone2::santa_tone2:

Fredrik

 

[adyc]

Thanks Rob for wonderful DAVE. I am a big fan of you. I still keep those in my possession when I first bought them in early 90s. Can you still remember those:
 

 

[lovethatsound]

Thanks for everything Rob, you are a true hero incl John and Matthew and the rest on Chord E!

On My wish list from Santa Rob it says a low end feature, in say 3 steps that boost the sound in 20 , 30, 40 hz would be great for a more dynamic performance frome DAVE if this is possible would have been great in the future

I wich you all an wonderful Christmas, and a happy new year!

:santa_tone2::santa_tone2:

Fredrik

The whole point of Dave was to make it sound as near to real thing as possible,as i understand it.But each to their own.Merry Christmas Fredrik

 

[jelt2359]

  Thank-you for your kind comments.
 
This year has been very crazy, with lots of different projects. One in particular I am looking forward to talking about at CES, as it has been very interesting. I haven't made as much progress on Davina as I had hoped, but I am back on that project now. I also regret not being able to post as much as I would have liked, but I have been very busy. But although incredibly busy - more so than at any other time in my life - things are very exciting. I think and hope that 2017 will prove to be an extremely interesting year, with lots of fresh discoveries and insights in the pipeline.
 
Anyway, I can't help feeling very thankful for all the progress in musicality that has been made over the past three years, and I would like to extend my thanks to all the team at Chord, notably Matt, who has the difficult task of turning my designs into something that can be reliably produced!
 
We live in very fortunate times with access to so much music that I personally can now enjoy absolutely anywhere, and for this I am grateful and thankful. I bought myself a Christmas present a few days ago - a 5TB portable hard disk (5TB - isn't that just stunning? my first hard disk was 20MB!!!)- and the 3 volumes of Mercury Living Presence, the RCA Living Stereo Vol 1, and the new DG David Ostrackh Edition box set. I had one of his recordings on Decca The Analogue Years box set (highly recommended - there is something very magical about Decca from 1957 to 1967), and his sheer verve and expression meant I had to try some more of his recordings. 
 
So happy holidays, and have fun with your music!
 
Rob

I ran into John in Singapore at an audio show and after I mentioned I was a DAVE owner his ears perked up and with a sparkle in his eye he told me that there's going to be something interesting coming at CES. I recently confirmed with him via PM also that this is going to be ready for sale immediately after the product announcement in the first week of January. So this is clearly not going to be the Davina.
 
Time to save up, folks! In two weeks' time, you may want to buy yourself a post-Christmas present.

 

[ubs28]

Thanks also from me. Chord makes the best products for headphones on the market in my opinion. There really is no substitute.
 
The Chord Dave will also be the heart of a new speaker setup I'm working on.

 

[JaZZ]

  I ran into John in Singapore at an audio show and after I mentioned I was a DAVE owner his ears perked up and with a sparkle in his eye he told me that there's going to be something interesting coming at CES. I recently confirmed with him via PM also that this is going to be ready for sale immediately after the product announcement in the first week of January. So this is clearly not going to be the Davina.
 
Time to save up, folks! In two weeks' time, you may want to buy yourself a post-Christmas present.

 
The digital amp to be paired with the DAVE is already going into production? (What else could it be?)

 

[jelt2359]

I said I was a big fan of their dacs, having owned Mojo, Hugo and Dave. No mention of amps anywhere. Rob also says he "looks forward to talking to it at CES" (ie not now), so hopefully it's not a digital amp.

 

[Light - Man]

I said I was a big fan of their dacs, having owned Mojo, Hugo and Dave. No mention of amps anywhere. Rob also says he "looks forward to talking to it at CES" (ie not now), so hopefully it's not a digital amp.

 
Hopefully it will be something like a new 2Qute DAC with variable voltage output control - for some of us slim cats who only have a small amount of visceral fat.   

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[Beolab]

The whole point of Dave was to make it sound as near to real thing as possible,as i understand it.But each to their own.Merry Christmas Fredrik

Yes i know the intetion, but as an add-on feature like the Phase control and the HF filtering etc.

It should the sound and play the same as it does, but som headphones does not come up to their full potential with DAVE in the lower end.
It not an power issue, more a little shy in the lower end if you are connecting high end headphones like Focal Utopia, Audeze LCD-4 , HE-6, HE1K, Senn HD800s , Abyss etc.etc. , and i think the DAVE should be made for High End headphones, not low / midi versions like Nighthawks.

I am not alone to have this opinion to have, because i have 20 Headfi users in this thread who have PM:d me about this.

So it would be a nice feature to take in consideration, then the user can decide buy himself if he wants to use the function or not.

 

[halloweenman]

 thanks to all the team at Chord, notably Matt, who has the difficult task of turning my designs into something that can be reliably produced!

I had a problem with my TT that Tom and Matt helped me resolve. They were brilliant.

 

[lovethatsound]

The digital amp to be paired with the DAVE is already going into production? (What else could it be?)

blu 2 cd transport

 

[ecwl]

I'm still at work taking a break so I am going to get everyone riled up by speculating what the CES product is. I'm thinking it's an updated CD player. Because that's the only other product in the pipeline that sounds like it's ready to go. I'm guessing that as they are developing the product, they were surprised by the improvements made just letting the CD player upsampling to 704kHz. The other thing people have been talking about a lot is leakage current from ground loops so I'm also guessing that addressing that issue for the output of the CD player or the power supply improved the sound quite a bit which was probably a surprise.
 
Of course, I'm hoping the next product at CES is NOT a new CD player (that I have no use for). Maybe they'll start selling software versions of long tap-length WTA algorithms? (which i know is unworkable because most PCs can't do them real-time)
 
Or even better, maybe the new amplifier will be ready. Please. Please. Please.

 

[JaZZ]

  Or even better, maybe the new amplifier will be ready. Please. Please. Please.

 
Somehow I hope it's not the amp. So they can take more time for developing an output variant for electrostatic headphones (and since I'm not into speakers anymore).