Late last year I was told that Chord were planning to launch a new high end DAC this year, not to replace Dave, but to run alongside the existing line up and will be significantly more expensive. than the current UK RRP of £9,000. for the Dave. Also no new Mscaler was planned for 2022. Of course this is just hearsay, but with Chord's upcoming product announcement it does at least appear to be plausible.
Late last year I was told that Chord were planning to launch a new high end DAC this year, not to replace Dave, but to run alongside the existing line up and will be significantly more expensive. than the current UK RRP of £9,000. for the Dave. Also no new Mscaler was planned for 2022. Of course this is just hearsay, but with Chord's upcoming product announcement it does at least appear to be plausible.
Late last year I was told that Chord were planning to launch a new high end DAC this year, not to replace Dave, but to run alongside the existing line up and will be significantly more expensive. than the current UK RRP of £9,000. for the Dave. Also no new Mscaler was planned for 2022. Of course this is just hearsay, but with Chord's upcoming product announcement it does at least appear to be plausible.
He's never denied Chord were developing a brand new high end DAC, merely that Dave 2 was not on the horizon, as I stated if my information is correct Dave will remain in production. He has indicated that the new Mscaler may be ready at the end of 2022, my information is 6 months old so perhaps the new Mscaler is ahead of schedule, of course it's all conjecture.
Quite possibly, however the information came from someone in the trade, as this person is affiliated with Chord I don't really see any advantage in spreading rumours, we shall see.
He's never denied Chord were developing a brand new high end DAC, merely that Dave 2 was not on the horizon, as I stated if my information is correct Dave will remain in production. He has indicated that the new Mscaler may be ready at the end of 2022, my information is 6 months old so perhaps the new Mscaler is ahead of schedule, of course it's all conjecture.
This is true, though he claimed that the FPGA whatever hasn’t advanced enough to warrant a DAVE 2. I guess that leaves open other technologies and wouldn’t make Rob a liar (something he says he tries hard to avoid).
Let’s just hope it allows for easy firmware or software updates like other modern high end dacs.
Server is fine and shouldn't have any material impact on the sound. I was talking the digital signal that goes into your dac - in this case Windows/Mac are generally garbage. Linux is better but only if you can run audiophile distributions (not familiar) or roll your own Linux distribution. After software there is this whole thing with hardware, clock, power...too much work to DIY IMO. Just get a similarily priced streamer and you will be much happier than Dave.
I have limited experience with standalone streamer. I have only heard Aurender N10, N20 and N30 and Emm Labs NS1. I have a lot of experience with Linn's streamers but those are all-in-one with dac. I think as streamers, Aurender and Emm Labs all sound pretty good to me. I did not hear N10, N20 and N30 side by side so I could not tell you incremental improvements among the units. You can continue to use your jRiver as UPNP file server - I use jRiver as I need some DSP functionality with UPNP.
Looks like I actually did not provide any recommendation You need to do the work yourself. Use Cat8 cables and get a dedicated switch for the streamer (the cheap gigabit 5 port unmanaged switch will do). You can go crazy from there if you want when you have decided on your streamer.
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You need to do the work yourself. Use Cat8 cables and get a dedicated switch for the streamer (the cheap gigabit 5 port unmanaged switch will do). You can go crazy from there if you want when you have decided on your streamer.
