There is ZERO loss of transparency with the M Scaler, in fact, I can hear things better as it gives you more insight into the music and more separation, anybody that tells you otherwise is either deaf, or is lying
This dude would likely say the differences are due to expectation bias, he sounds a lot like some cult members we had at some point spewing nonsense here, thankfully the majority of those sewer creatures are now gone
Somewhere he said "...most dacs are (shelf chip based).." so he build in a mere invisible disclaimer. After which he continued as if all expensive dacs are snake oil shelf chip based after all. Thats manipulating truth for clicks. Done with him...
Do you expect Davina to ever be 100% finished, or is it to all intents and purposes an iterative R&D project, where every time that you complete an iteration to answer a question, one or more new questions (and iterations) are generated?
There will always be some new question/knowledge to capture.
In this post you mention that the first prototype was in 2001.
Great to meet you on the 1st day of CAMJAM Singapore. I have a Mojo for a few weeks and after hearing about your presentation on Mojo and Dave, I was keen to listen to Dave too. Good thing the local agent AV1 had one in the show.
The first time I heard Dave for a minutes, under show conditions, the sound quality was not obvious, as the setup of was different from mine: different can, Windows player, & different songs.
So went back to listen to the Dave Dac next day for 30 mins using my MacBook, Audirvana+(no upsampling) , CD and DSD albums on a HifiMan...
There is ZERO loss of transparency with the M Scaler, in fact, I can hear things better as it gives you more insight into the music and more separation, anybody that tells you otherwise is either deaf, or is lying
Do you expect Davina to ever be 100% finished, or is it to all intents and purposes an iterative R&D project, where every time that you complete an iteration to answer a question, one or more new questions (and iterations) are generated?
There will always be some new question/knowledge to capture.
In this post you mention that the first prototype was in 2001.
Great to meet you on the 1st day of CAMJAM Singapore. I have a Mojo for a few weeks and after hearing about your presentation on Mojo and Dave, I was keen to listen to Dave too. Good thing the local agent AV1 had one in the show.
The first time I heard Dave for a minutes, under show conditions, the sound quality was not obvious, as the setup of was different from mine: different can, Windows player, & different songs.
So went back to listen to the Dave Dac next day for 30 mins using my MacBook, Audirvana+(no upsampling) , CD and DSD albums on a HifiMan...
At the moment the intent is to get the pulse array ADC working - and I am getting much closer to that prospect, with assembled boards arriving in the next few months. The earlier unit worked perfectly up to -20dB, and the next board should fix this final issue.
Then we need to turn that into a pro-audio product, and that process has already started, in that the specs are being drawn up and PCB design work will be starting very shortly. So progress up to this point has been glacial, but it's now starting to accelerate, so I am now feeling pretty confident about this project. But remember it takes 18 months to two years minimum for a project at the spec stage to enter production - so don't expect quick results.
At the moment the intent is to get the pulse array ADC working - and I am getting much closer to that prospect, with assembled boards arriving in the next few months. The earlier unit worked perfectly up to -20dB, and the next board should fix this final issue.
Then we need to turn that into a pro-audio product, and that process has already started, in that the specs are being drawn up and PCB design work will be starting very shortly. So progress up to this point has been glacial, but it's now starting to accelerate, so I am now feeling pretty confident about this project. But remember it takes 18 months to two years minimum for a project at the spec stage to enter production - so don't expect quick results.
Yes Davina has a USB out, and full range of digital in; so it can function as analogue>digital (768) or digital (48)>digital (768 - M scaling) or digital (768) >digital (48 decimation) - the numbers are for illustration purposes, it's not limited to those numbers.
At the moment the intent is to get the pulse array ADC working - and I am getting much closer to that prospect, with assembled boards arriving in the next few months. The earlier unit worked perfectly up to -20dB, and the next board should fix this final issue.
Then we need to turn that into a pro-audio product, and that process has already started, in that the specs are being drawn up and PCB design work will be starting very shortly. So progress up to this point has been glacial, but it's now starting to accelerate, so I am now feeling pretty confident about this project. But remember it takes 18 months to two years minimum for a project at the spec stage to enter production - so don't expect quick results.
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