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Chord Dave Reference DAC

$13,999.00

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Items marked (available to demo) are available in our store for audition. Please give us a call or email in advance for an appointment. AVAILABLE IN BLACK OR SILVERUPGRADE THE DAVE... Read more

Color: Black

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Items marked (available to demo) are available in our store for audition. Please give us a call or email in advance for an appointment.

AVAILABLE IN BLACK OR SILVER
UPGRADE THE DAVE with Chord M Scaler Digital Upscaler for ABSOLUTE BEST PERFORMANCE!

Chord Electronics has launched its most advanced DAC to date. Given the acronym DAVE, Chord's latest-generation digital-to-analogue convertor features the very best conversion technology available, using proprietary techniques never seen before. ONE OF OUR REFERENCE DACs! "2019 Stereophile Class A Rated"

DAVE is a highly advanced reference-grade DAC, digital preamp and headphone amplifier. Hand-made in Kent, DAVE is based around a proprietary FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) offering more than ten times the program capacity of its predecessor.

At its heart lies a new (and in electronics terms, huge) LX75 version of the Spartan 6 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA''s extraordinary capability enables a number of key sonic benefits including significantly improved timing and the best noise-shaper performance of any known DAC. DAVE''s technology delivers music with unmatched reality and musicality, with an unrivalled timing response.


Inputs:
USB B-style: 44 kHz to 768 kHz - DXD and Quad DSD
2x optical: 44kHz to 192kHz
1 x AES: 44kHz to 192kHz
4 x Coax: 44kHz to 384kHz
Dual-data mode available

Outputs digital:
2x ultra-high-speed coax 768kHz dual-data mode for use with future-unannounced Chord Electronics products.

Maximum output voltage: 6 volts RMS
THD and noise at 2.5 volts: RMS 0.000015 %
THD and noise at 2.5 volts: 127dBA Awt (124dBA into 33 ohms)
Dynamic range at -60 dBFS 1kHz -127 dBA A wt
(No measurable noise floor modulation, no a harmonic distortion)
(Analogue distortion characteristic: no distortion for small signals)
Power requirements: mains power 80 volts to 260 volts; AC 20 watts

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