Sorry about your lack of basic EE knowledge. Take some classes at your community college and you will make less ignorant comments.Logical but ignorant.
You've reasoned yourself into stupidity.
Sorry about your lack of basic EE knowledge. Take some classes at your community college and you will make less ignorant comments.Logical but ignorant.
You've reasoned yourself into stupidity.
I'm not sure that Chord is really one of the many high end audio companies selling fantasies at astronomical prices. They measure well enough, if not quite SOTA, unlike many high end favourites which have measurements belonging to a previous age.Chord is a marketing driven audio company selling very high priced products using very dubious arguments (lying, really) to consumers with big pockets; not an engineering one. Contrast this with the German company RME making audio interfaces and mic preamps for the pros, but have a very big hit with their ADI-2 DAC and Pro to consumers.
Oh no , not blind faith to Amir at all.It’s not about not toeing a line. It’s about thinking there’s a line that has to be toed - by saying that, you imply that those here who disagree with you are doing so out of blind faith to Amir, without thinking for themselves. But that’s not the case.
Did you mention it also has six more channels? And it also has a headphone amp (though I don't use it on mine).Assume it is the best it can get, it is possible to get another product with several dBs lower noise floor and several times cheaper.
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Topping has its own issues. Reliability and some questionable qc /lack of testing to name but 2. But they don't charge £14k for anything they make.no one bitches out Topping
You are comparing Seiko to a diamond encrusted Rolex submariner!Topping has its own issues. Reliability and some questionable qc /lack of testing to name but 2. But they don't charge £14k for anything they make.
That’s most probably true, but it won’t stop engineers from reaching closer and closer to that goal. It would probably require some sort of completely esoteric technology such as clocking components operating at near-absolute zero, etc.Mathematical perfection in dac is not possible in real life and never will be possible.
I’m not sure where you are going with this.And our host Amir!
he is part and parcel of this mass deception. After all, he should know this fact of yours.
Year after year, he takes us along 100's of DAC reviews and measurements, for no reason .
I bet he is in their pocket!
Do you think the Illuminatis are responsible, or it it Putin?
mind boggles.
If you are a small business selling high end dacs, you really can’t afford to sell your dac for cheap unless you have it built in China. Manufacturers typically give up 40-70% to distributors/dealers and if you are only selling maybe a thousand units (if that) a year your revenue is only a few million a year which you will need go pay for your COGS, employees, benefits, toolings, machines, marketing and 1000 other SGA expenses.You are comparing Seiko to a diamond encrusted Rolex submariner!
Of course 14K is too much.
No DAC is worth 14K!
Those who buy such things, do so, to prove their status.
Seiko keeps better time too.
Seems my post did need a few smiley faces after all.I’m not sure where you are going with this.
Mathematical perfection in dac is not possible in real life and never will be possible.
It's still their flagship dac. Current on their website in the Choral range.Am I correct that Chord no longer sells the Dave? I wonder how it measured up to other similar devices at the time when it was sold new?
I’ve no idea but it still sounds excellent.I wonder how it measured up to other similar devices at the time when it was sold new?
$14k?
i don’t agree with your view but it does appear I misread the original comment.Yes, but misses the point I think.
First, @Billy Budapest wrote, “closer and closer,” which does not mean “reaching” or “achieving.”
Second, and perhaps more important, we know how imperfection manifests itself in digital sampling: as quantization error, aka noise, and as frequency and/or phase nonlinearity based on the behavior of the reconstruction filter. If the quantization noise is below audible levels, and the reconstruction filter functions as we know they are capable of functioning, then the result, while certainly not mathematically perfect, will be audibly the same as a mathematically perfect system would be, yes?
This is the minimum guarantee in the EU. In Spain, for instance, it's 3 years now.A long time ago, last century.
Directive 1999/44/EC (the Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive).