Jan 14, 2016 at 7:56 AM Post #1,351 of 27,038
By the end of this month, I'll be doing my own comparison of DAVE vs my Yggy (and a CAD).
At 4 times the price, the DAVE (or CAD) damn well better be better. But if they are substantially better, it will make for an interesting decision point.
 
Apart from the SQ, I like certain aspects of the DAVE's design:
 
  1. It's a very small, single box
  2. You can get it in black
  3. Integrated headphone and preamp section (and it's still very small)
  4. Low power consumption and a standby option for even lower power consumption - anyone tried this yet? Is there  a warm up time required after using it? 
  5. Cross-feed options for the headphone output - anyone used this yet?
 
The CAD is not really a contender because its deliberately minimal design (USB-only input, SE-only output) is too minimal for me, but it's got a great SQ reputation and is close to DAVE in price, and my local dealer has them both, so I may as well try it. 
 
Jan 14, 2016 at 8:35 AM Post #1,352 of 27,038
a transparent, accurate and neutral device should not need any tweaking by other components. if yggy needs any specific kind of gear ( warm or cold sounding) it means it is not accurate and is colored !

Sorry if I was not very clear, the tweaking I was talking about was not about finding a warm or cold sounding device to pair with Yggy, it was about trying to feed Yggy with best quality signal possible with which Yggy was very sensitive (it's also very sensitive to power quality, so power treatment device and power cord are also very important, despite what Schiit says on their website). I'm sure if I just went with dedicated player/streamer like Aurender, it would take less time but that would mean I would sacrifice convenience compare to using only my laptop which I really don't want to do, and based on all the feedback so far, it seems DAVE doesn't have all these, at least at a much lesser extent, this intrigued me a lot and can't wait to try it in my system. I will do some comparisons on SQ when feeding DAVE with different devices after I got it and report back my findings. 
 
Jan 14, 2016 at 11:03 AM Post #1,353 of 27,038
By the end of this month, I'll be doing my own comparison of DAVE vs my Yggy (and a CAD).
At 4 times the price, the DAVE (or CAD) damn well better be better. But if they are substantially better, it will make for an interesting decision point.

Apart from the SQ, I like certain aspects of the DAVE's design:

  • It's a very small, single box
  • You can get it in black
  • Integrated headphone and preamp section (and it's still very small)
  • Low power consumption and a standby option for even lower power consumption - anyone tried this yet? Is there  a warm up time required after using it? 
  • Cross-feed options for the headphone output - anyone used this yet?

The CAD is not really a contender because its deliberately minimal design (USB-only input, SE-only output) is too minimal for me, but it's got a great SQ reputation and is close to DAVE in price, and my local dealer has them both, so I may as well try it. 
I leave my Dave in standby when not in use,it sound's fantastic as soon as you wake it up.
 
Jan 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM Post #1,354 of 27,038
The headphone out on the Dave is really excellent, you wouldn't have to buy a headphone amp with Dave, saving money, if you are into headphones too. I listen almost exclusively to speakers.
When I do listen to headphones it's using the Mojo & ipod touch.
 
Jan 15, 2016 at 6:48 AM Post #1,357 of 27,038
Hi @Shini44,

I am really enjoying the Liquid Carbon with the HE-6 out of the Mojo with line out(3v) setting. You can always try that with your LC.

Enjoy!

my LC now is burning in, so i didn't try its full potential yet. 
 
I am a Treble/Bass head, and i "assume" that the LC with Hugo TT line out mode + LC on gain x3 , will not be enough to power the HE-6 to a level that will make me dance :P 

also the quality will differ, the reviews state that to bring the transparency and real HE-6 massive power are required.
 
 
yes for you maybe you are enjoying the current power :P not sure
 
try to describe the HE-6 bass power / Treble extension,quantity and transparency for me, so i get the big image :D
 
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:08 AM Post #1,358 of 27,038
So had the DAVE for a couple of hours and I can't really make any snap judgments unfortunately as my new MB2se's and Atlas Mavros speaker cable were cold and not burned/run in (trying to put some hours on them still) and the connection was via adapter so not the ideal BNC which my Bryston bcd-1 lacks and it ran in PCM plus mode. Not a night and day jaw dropper in that short and frustratingly uncontrolled demo but still more musical and natural, and with greater detail with a calmness that wasn't really detectable at the time but is now missed. What was a jaw dropper was applying the HF filter to Elle Kings album, a harsh and brittle sound. The HF filter calmed the whole thing down and made it a totally different and nicer listening experience. Amazing.
I don't know how many hours this unit had, I was recovering from the size of the MB2se's...
 
Jan 15, 2016 at 7:58 AM Post #1,361 of 27,038
So had the DAVE for a couple of hours and I can't really make any snap judgments unfortunately as my new MB2se's and Atlas Mavros speaker cable were cold and not burned/run in (trying to put some hours on them still) and the connection was via adapter so not the ideal BNC which my Bryston bcd-1 lacks and it ran in PCM plus mode. Not a night and day jaw dropper in that short and frustratingly uncontrolled demo but still more musical and natural, and with greater detail with a calmness that wasn't really detectable at the time but is now missed. What was a jaw dropper was applying the HF filter to Elle Kings album, a harsh and brittle sound. The HF filter calmed the whole thing down and made it a totally different and nicer listening experience. Amazing.
I don't know how many hours this unit had, I was recovering from the size of the MB2se's...

Was the Elle Kings a 44.1 kHz recording?
 
Rob
 
Jan 15, 2016 at 10:32 AM Post #1,365 of 27,038
So had the DAVE for a couple of hours and I can't really make any snap judgments unfortunately as my new MB2se's and Atlas Mavros speaker cable were cold and not burned/run in (trying to put some hours on them still) and the connection was via adapter so not the ideal BNC which my Bryston bcd-1 lacks and it ran in PCM plus mode. Not a night and day jaw dropper in that short and frustratingly uncontrolled demo but still more musical and natural, and with greater detail with a calmness that wasn't really detectable at the time but is now missed. What was a jaw dropper was applying the HF filter to Elle Kings album, a harsh and brittle sound. The HF filter calmed the whole thing down and made it a totally different and nicer listening experience. Amazing.
I don't know how many hours this unit had, I was recovering from the size of the MB2se's...

what DAC did you use before DAVE?
 

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