Chord Electronics Qutest DAC - Official Thread
Nov 5, 2020 at 3:34 PM Post #5,191 of 6,740
I like the stand, must have just come out. Been using a piece of patagonian rosewood (not a real rosewood) as a stand, it has more mass than the Qutest and I think its makes a difference.
 

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Nov 5, 2020 at 3:46 PM Post #5,192 of 6,740
Here are two pictures of my rig. As you can see my qutest sits right in the middle of two tube amp chassis. Tube amps, all of them vibrate. Even a little tiny bit. Some much more. So my thought was that this vibration may translate to the qutest and may cause levels of distortion.

I'm really thinking this new qutest system stand will help keep qutest cool and help isolate it.

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Nov 5, 2020 at 3:59 PM Post #5,194 of 6,740
Has anyone seen these? New Qutest system stand. This picture shows Quest and the phono stage pre-amp stacked. This is supposed to keep your Qutest cool and I think will help with isolation. These individual units are stackable.
Pictured are two shelves, each selling for £ 275 (£ 550 total).
This is beyond common sense. :beyersmile:
 
Nov 5, 2020 at 4:08 PM Post #5,195 of 6,740
Here are two pictures of my rig. As you can see my qutest sits right in the middle of two tube amp chassis. Tube amps, all of them vibrate. Even a little tiny bit. Some much more. So my thought was that this vibration may translate to the qutest and may cause levels of distortion.

I'm really thinking this new qutest system stand will help keep qutest cool and help isolate it.

Your headband is angry:

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Nov 5, 2020 at 5:38 PM Post #5,199 of 6,740
Here are two pictures of my rig. As you can see my qutest sits right in the middle of two tube amp chassis. Tube amps, all of them vibrate. Even a little tiny bit. Some much more. So my thought was that this vibration may translate to the qutest and may cause levels of distortion.

I'm really thinking this new qutest system stand will help keep qutest cool and help isolate it.

I love Goldbears! They’re delicious! How do you like your WA6-SE RobertSM?
 
Nov 5, 2020 at 5:43 PM Post #5,200 of 6,740
Victor, you know very well that most if not all common sense gets thrown out when one spends any significant time in this hobby.
$361.70 is a lot to pay for common sense, at least here in Minnesota RobertSM.
 
Nov 5, 2020 at 5:46 PM Post #5,201 of 6,740
I love Goldbears! They’re delicious! How do you like your WA6-SE RobertSM?


I really like it! The WA6SE has the design advantages that it is a two chassis amp with tube rectifier instead of SS, and no coupling capacitor in the signal path - direct coupling between input and output tube stages. What that means is the listener will really get alot of tube sound.
 

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