...if you note the damage was to a connector, that I would believe. Some of the cables are heavy and should be supported or otherwise managed.
I see. So at 8 ohms TT2 is providing 7.3 W vs Dave's 2.1 W? Wow, surprised how much less Watts the Dave provides. Less than 3.5x power than TT2?Here you have.
According to Chord, they also found the center pins of the DAVE BNC connectors have been damaged by the cables. In my instance, the defective cables caused the electrical issues I previously described and they were removed before potentially damaging my unit as well. The problems were most severe at 705.6kHz setting likely because the cables likely aren’t made to meet the 75Ω standard or had other gross errors in the assembly. The issue was present in both cables regardless of the configuration. We can be certain the cables were faulty because the issue was resolved by using different brand name cables that were properly constructed. You can certainly contact Chord for the same information I received from them.
Ah, ok. I misunderstood. Although I would still like to know what exactly was wrong there. There are only two options: either one of the conductors did not have contact (should not damage the DAC) or there was a short circuit between the signal conductor and the screen (I don’t know if the DAC has input protection or not).
I'm not sure if even shorting cable with spdif signal is going to damage something as the voltage for spdif is low (0,2-0,6v and current about 8mA) - but I might be wrong on that.
The Choral Enable Stands are entirely cosmetic and they are not advertised with any benefits for vibration/isolation. The odd angled design of the stands raises the rear inputs/outputs and can place even more force on the connectors if heavy cables are not supported.
Yes, I think so too. It was just the only more or less realistic assumption.
RF interference affects the operation of "the" DAC. I think is important to note that the "the" should be "a" DAC or "any" DAC. RF interference affects most DACs, not only Chord DACs. The advantage of Chord DACs is that optical inputs can be used to eliminate RF noise as Chord DACs are inherently immune to jitter. RF noise can come from many sources, not just FPGAs
I don't see how adding common mode inductance to a cable helps with cleaning RF inside any dac. RF on the cable shielding will be grounded at the input. Adding high level of inductance to a cable will make rounded corner square waves (like they are even square to begin with).
I disagree. I find it does [rovide vibration isolation. How could it not? It has good feet and pads for the dac which no hangs off the rack. My A/B showed benefits YMMV
