CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE

[icnaiwhimor1975]

Yep, with 4500mAh lifepo cells.
And, when better cells come out, this will increase further. I can just snap cells in my unit.

excellent results

 

[saudio7]

Finally my Dave come back from service after few months, the reason was right channel distortions, it started after 8 years of use. Now I realized how much I missed Dave.

 

[miketlse]

I missed this product announcement a few days ago , from the alternative Chord Company.
Maybe @Reactcore could design an equivalent in a choral or ultima case.

 

[AnyDave]

I missed this product announcement a few days ago , from the alternative Chord Company.
Maybe @Reactcore could design an equivalent in a choral or ultima case.

I'm going to hold out for the Scent-Scaler to pair with it.

 

[GuiltyRocker]

I missed this product announcement a few days ago , from the alternative Chord Company.
Maybe @Reactcore could design an equivalent in a choral or ultima case.

What the hell is this product???

 

[icnaiwhimor1975]

What the hell is this product???

it has nothing to do with true "Chord"
it's just the same name

or maybe it's just an 1st April joke

 

[AnyDave]

it has nothing to do with true "Chord"
it's just the same name

or maybe it's just an 1st April joke

It's both. It's the Chord cable company AND an April 1st joke.

 

[analogmusic]

True - but only if you don't actually listen to music.

@Rob Watts

This was such an insightful comment

It's been over a decade since I got my first Hugo 1, which I replaced with a Dave.

So if I might ask, what is it about transients that makes music, well, music.

And the lack of transient accuracy, how does that harm the music

Also is there is list of Vinyl Albums that were using a Chord Dave during the Digital to Analog process of creating a Vinyl Master.

I think it is a good idea, not everyone is aware of a Chord DAC, and the record buying public has a right to expect their Vinyl, to have "music" on it.

 

[icnaiwhimor1975]

I think it is a good idea, not everyone is aware of a Chord DAC, and the record buying public has a right to expect their Vinyl, to have "music" on it.

I think that those who buy vinyl will not listen to any digital DAC, no matter how good it is

 

[Reactcore]

The first Choral battery supply is officially born

Read further in my thread:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/daves-choral-battery-supply.974510/post-18649293

 

[icnaiwhimor1975]

The first Choral battery supply is officially born



Read further in my thread:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/daves-choral-battery-supply.974510/post-18649293

as always great
+1 finished project

 

[GuiltyRocker]

The first Choral battery supply is officially born



Read further in my thread:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/daves-choral-battery-supply.974510/post-18649293

Looks amazing, congratulations.

 

[HalloweenJack23]

The first Choral battery supply is officially born



Read further in my thread:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/daves-choral-battery-supply.974510/post-18649293

Superb work! Wow!

 

[shaylin3]

The first Choral battery supply is officially born



Read further in my thread:
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/daves-choral-battery-supply.974510/post-18649293

I really wish I lived closer to you!

 

[Rob Watts]

@Rob Watts

This was such an insightful comment

It's been over a decade since I got my first Hugo 1, which I replaced with a Dave.

So if I might ask, what is it about transients that makes music, well, music.

And the lack of transient accuracy, how does that harm the music

Also is there is list of Vinyl Albums that were using a Chord Dave during the Digital to Analog process of creating a Vinyl Master.

I think it is a good idea, not everyone is aware of a Chord DAC, and the record buying public has a right to expect their Vinyl, to have "music" on it.

Debussy's once said ”Music is the space between the notes“ and in my view there is some truth in the quote; it certainly highlights the fact that transients are essential, for without transients there would be no spaces between the notes.

But the timing of transients is absolutely vital from the psychoacoustic point of view as the perception of pitch, timbre, tempo and rhythm, instruments as separate entities and the location of instruments in 3D space depends totally on the timing of transients.

And digital audio most severe and enormous problem is the reconstruction of the timing of transients, when sampled data gets converted back to a continuous waveform. And that conversion back to a continuous waveform is when we get the errors in the timing of transients, with transient timing constantly shifting backwards and forwards - and these timing errors present a huge problem for the brain, so that we can't perceive the music properly. Now I have been aware of this issue since the early 1980's, as reading about how important the timing of transients was from psychoacoustic text books, and studying the mathematics behind sampling theory - it was clear that reproducing digital audio had major and fundamental issues.

Indeed, as time has gone by, and I have listened to more complex and capable WTA interpolation filters, I have found that the sensitivity of perception to the tiniest timing error is enormous. With the Quartet development, I have constantly been surprised at essentially miniscule timing errors can have huge perceptual impacts.

And it's the difference between music sounding like real instruments playing in a real space to some garbled, muddled and pale imitation of a musical event.

Going back to your question, yes many vinyl albums are today cut using Dave, but I am not aware of a list. Some years back someone estimated that 70% of the albums cut today in the UK used Dave, and that number has increased as more studios have bought Dave since.

Edit, corrected spelling.