CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE

[zen87192]

Merry Christmas everybody!

 

[Spawn300Z]

Merry Christmas to All.

 

[GuiltyRocker]

Merry Christmas to all, enjoy your systems!

 

[sm60]

Merry Christmas everybody!

Celebrating Christmas Eve here in the Bay Area sipping some Hennessy cognac, listening to some beautiful west coast jazz played back on my Blu2/Dave, shown here in its fetching Chord stand. The album is Gerry Mulligan’s Dream a Little Dream on Telarc. Fabulous recording made late in his career. Toast to Rob Watts for enriching our lives with his designs.

 

[Ciggavelli]

For me it was the last line that i read multible times in different reviews:
"If only the headphone amplifier had the drive of the TT2"

This i made true with my cap modification

Or get an upgraded power supply. I still prefer my WA33 EE JPS over straight out of the Dave (the Woo is much more expansive), but straight out of the DAVE isn't that bad though

 

[GuiltyRocker]

Celebrating Christmas Eve here in the Bay Area sipping some Hennessy cognac, listening to some beautiful west coast jazz played back on my Blu2/Dave, shown here in its fetching Chord stand. The album is Gerry Mulligan’s Dream a Little Dream on Telarc. Fabulous recording made late in his career. Toast to Rob Watts for enriching our lives with his designs.

Very nice Blu player, enjoy!

 

[mentalmal1]

Merry Xmas to all you fine music lovers out there. I’ll be producing a nice Christmassy mix of tunes for the whole family who are coming to visit today - and of course carving the turkey too!
Let’s hope 2023’s a better year!

 

[FunkyBassMan]

Merry Christmas everybody!

You too!

 

[Reactcore]

Merry Chordmas to eveyone and a musical 2023

 

[FunkyBassMan]

Listening to Sgt. Pepper's on Dave/MScaler. I've heard this record before a thousand times on digital and vinyl, but this is a completely different experience.

It's like I'm in the studio with the Beatles. Utterly mesmerizing.

 

[GuiltyRocker]

Listening to Sgt. Pepper's on Dave/MScaler. I've heard this record before a thousand times on digital and vinyl, but this is a completely different experience.

It's like I'm in the studio with the Beatles. Utterly mesmerizing.

That's when you know you got it right. Enjoy.

 

[jlbrach]

Listening to Sgt. Pepper's on Dave/MScaler. I've heard this record before a thousand times on digital and vinyl, but this is a completely different experience.

It's like I'm in the studio with the Beatles. Utterly mesmerizing.

yes, I too have the dave/blu2 and the new remastered hi-rez version of sgt pepper is remarkable listening

 

[kawhia]

For some days now I have a problem with crackle sounds on some loud notes in my music. One example: Everything but the girl - like the deserts miss the rain album on first track around 1:45 min.
When the voice is loudest there is a crackle sound very audible on my system.
I tried hp direct from Dave and it is still there. So it is not a problem of the amp. But even when I listen with some earbud headphones on my iPhone I hear the sound. But it is far less audible, I guess because it is way less resolving.
Can you hear it as well?
I stream Qobuz over my NUC.

PS even when I use the Qobuz app I can hear it. Is it in the recording?

 

[datka3]

Still using Dave after 5 years.
I’m my 5 year I’ve tried mscaler for a week with expensive Dual BNC , at the end returned it . It just did not exiting to me as much as I thought it would .

Next I tied using dual Kecea P3 custom solution to replace stock LPS , that changes sound and for some time I thought that it was better because presentation became less digital and was more meat to the bone, but eventually I realized they Dave lost its magic quality. Speed and transients were sacrifices .

Now . I’m using power conditioner Puritan psm156 with really expensive Mexcel power cord and Dave sound fantastic…

Future : I’m considering Farad3 upgrade foe Dave , I just hope that improvement that it brings are not at the cost of most of most important quality- transients…

One more thing, last interview with Rob mentioned that he was working on dedicated scaler for Dave and “Silly money DAC”

 

[ecwl]

For some days now I have a problem with crackle sounds on some loud notes in my music. One example: Everything but the girl - like the deserts miss the rain album on first track around 1:45 min.
When the voice is loudest there is a crackle sound very audible on my system.
I tried hp direct from Dave and it is still there. So it is not a problem of the amp. But even when I listen with some earbud headphones on my iPhone I hear the sound. But it is far less audible, I guess because it is way less resolving.
Can you hear it as well?
I stream Qobuz over my NUC.

PS even when I use the Qobuz app I can hear it. Is it in the recording?

First track is My Head is My Only House Unless It Rains, right?

I just played the track on Tidal off my iPad using the iPad speakers and I don’t hear it.

Did you DSP your Roon? Maybe your DSP clipped Roon so Roon is sending a clipped signal to your iPhone & DAVE then to your headphones?