[DaveRedRef-III]

The area of Dave presentation I am most intrigued to hear is how it presents bass guitar and bass instruments in general. Reason being that imo bass has been one of the Weak areas of digital music. To my ears digital doesn't image bass frequencies very well nor does it focus those frequencies well, at least as I hear them in an analogue performance. Of course a live performance will have massive acoustic compromises but a studio recording or even just listening to a bass guitarist practicing tells me that this area of HiFi reproduction can be improved upon. With a superior focus and far less inherent distortion the Dave Dac Should offer an improvement here. I hope so

 

[esimms86]

esimms86
Good choice of example - Led Zep II my favourite LZ album. When I get my Dave Dac I will certainly give LZ a listen. Btw I don't know if you have it but their Mothership remastering is very good imo. I like Jimmy Page's mixes tbh.

I have the Jimmy Page 24/96 remasters of the entire LZ catalog minus Presence and ITTOD. The Barry Diament remaster of LZ I is also highly recommended. OK, back to DAVE!

 

[rkt31]

I think more neutral and transparent is the dac , more it is suited to every kind of music and recordings. Best example is Hugo itself. I enjoy highly compressed recordings like prince's musicology and very open and dynamic recordings like Robert lucas- like and the locomotives alike on Hugo. so Dave must definitely be an improvement as it betters the Hugo specs and much more.

 

[rkt31]

pls read Luke and the locomotives instead of like and the locomotives in the above post !

 

[ALRAINBOW]

Since this a an fpga dsc will there be other firmwares available as in firmware rolling. Like other dacs
Tube rolling is a great way to enjoy our music like new
If we have other firmwares this would allow the same
Lastly has anyone comforted the dsd to the HUGO
Thanks in advance

 

[DaveRedRef-III]

"I think more neutral and transparent is the dac , more it is suited to every kind of music and recordings."

Well said rkt31

 

[lovethatsound]

Since this a an fpga dsc will there be other firmwares available as in firmware rolling. Like other dacs
Tube rolling is a great way to enjoy our music like new
If we have other firmwares this would allow the same
Lastly has anyone comforted the dsd to the HUGO
Thanks in advance

The only way 2 upgrade Dave would be 2 send it back 2 chord,if an upgrade became available . I'm sure Rob has mentioned this in this thread somewhere,hope this helps you out.

 

[Beolab]

Their will not be any SW update according to Rob, but i wounder whats happends when the MQA format beeing released , if the DAVE can handle this or if you have to upgrade to DAVE MQHD then, or if its pre-programmed to handle MQA compressed files.

 

[bmichels]

  Yes it will do dual data mode.
 
Output impedance is the PCB tracking to the OP, I have not measured it yet.
 
Yes you can use phono and XLR together, but gain is fixed.
 
Rob

 
Good to understand that BLU <-> DAVE will be able to use dual mode,but.... so why the DAVE do not have 2x AES balanced XLR input like the QBD76 ???
 
PS:is there a "new" blu CD transport coming from CHORD ? Curent Blu is 10 years old !!

 

[DaveRedRef-III]

Beolab
I would also like to see MQA adopted.

 

[Sonic77]

Good to understand that BLU <-> DAVE will be able to use dual mode,but.... so why the DAVE do not have 2x AES balanced XLR input like the QBD76 ???

PS:is there a "new" blu coming ? Curent Blu is 10 years old !!

What is blu?

 

[Sonic77]

Beolab
I would also like to see MQA adopted.

MQA website says it's available 2015, is it?

 

[DaveRedRef-III]

I meant I would like to see it widely adopted including in Chord Electronics products Sonic77

 

[Beolab]

Because no one are willing to answer my question i have digged out the power spec of the headphone output my self:

It got: 6,75 V RMS with 0,5 A current @ 33 Ohms = 3,3 Watts

Hugo: 5 V RMS with 0,5 A current @ 33 Ohms = 2,5 Watts

Is this correct @Rob Watts ?

 

[bmichels]

What is blu?

The Blue is a CD transport from CHORD.