The Jester
1000+ Head-Fier
Same reason as all seperates, isolation …The Dave cannot be a state of the art DAC if I need to buy other products to make it sound better. It’s simply absurd.
Why don’t Chord just make a single state of the art DAC instead of an obviously floored design. Include the M scaler and include a decent linear power supply without noise into single DAC.
Chuck in an audiophile fuse while they’re at it.
Adding external processing power from the MScaler reduces the processing load on the DAC, if users wish to go for more isolation between extensive digital processing done by the MScaler and the D/A conversion by the DAC with specialty cables or optical isolation solutions that option is there…