Besides Rob Watts' (Chord's engineer) claim that he can hear sound nuances down to -300 dB (someone computed that this corresponds to hearing, while being on planet Earth, the sound of a small stone dropped by someone on the Moon),
here is another incredible thing.
On Head-Fi, someone stated over time in several posts that Rob Watts claims that (re. audio) all his devices do benefit from mechanical isolation, e.g.:
in big posts such as:
This stuff seems to work pretty well. I'll admit there was some scotch involved last night so more listening is needed but my initial reaction is, "Uh-oh..." Dangerous comments..... For my wallet!! :)
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Is there any issues driving efficient speakers using the RCA outputs of Dave? If you're dead set on driving speakers directly with the DAVE, it is possible but you have to be creative. With very high-efficiency speakers like a Klipsch horn speaker (efficiency up to 105 dB) and...
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Watts has been active on that thread but never disclaimed this.
So I assume that he would stand behind such unscientific viewpoints which amount to me to charlatanism. How could you take him seriously if this is true?
However I did not find the original, incredible statements (re. mechanical isolation) by Watts himself, I would appreciate if someone could find them or similar ones by the Chord company.
Thank you in in advance.