Simon can you give me a small review on the sound of the Select II with the Abyss compared to other dac's you have tried out like the MSB Analog, Gryphon and so on..
Had bin very cool to test the new Chord DAVE against the Select II . Many will laph here, but the price diffrence is just a figure and many audiophiles think that a machine with the highest price tag and ultra nice internal design most be the better one, but does not tell us in fact which one is the best sounding.
According to Rob Watts when i asked him if he had the ability to hand pick any solution from the Select II or DCS Vivaldi stack, or if he had unlimited budjet up to $100.000 US, if he had then bin able to make an even better DAC, and his fast response was No! He said that after over 30 years of developing and designing DAC chips / build amps / DAC's and programming FPGAś, this is the best sound he had personally heard to this date.
And yes he is not neutral to his statement i know but he is an unnest guy, so i beleve what he is saying to a high grade.
So it had bin very nice to see a review btw David & Goliath