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Chord DAVE DAC Review (Video)

JSmith

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The only part of that that was barely interesting was Rob referred to Chord DAC's as his products. If he's not part of marketing, why is he out and about doing these videos?

Generally though, I want my 10 mins of life back after that monotonous marketing infomercial.

I'm not waiting with baited breath for the M-Scaler video... which supposedly will 'zhuzh' up the sound quality further. :facepalm:


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The only part of that that was barely interesting was Rob referred to Chord DAC's as his products. If he's not part of marketing, why is he out and about doing these videos?

Generally though, I want my 10 mins of life back after that monotonous marketing infomercial.

I'm not waiting with baited breath for the M-Scaler video... which supposedly will 'zhuzh' up the sound quality further. :facepalm:


JSmith
I scroll quickly through these kind of vids. First it is mostly unbearable and secondly as you said I value my time. ;-)
 

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The only part of that that was barely interesting was Rob referred to Chord DAC's as his products. If he's not part of marketing, why is he out and about doing these videos?


JSmith
That's quite common. Chord is not Sony, small companies don't necessarily have a marketing department, If they do they will manage social network interactions, maybe advertisement (if any) but it's an engineering based company, the main guy will have to wear many hats. He designs these products and is the spoke person for them. Now that doesn't mean he is good at it. It's totally OK to criticize his marketing methods but at least more generally speaking the person who develop the tech should be more apt to talk about his tech than any marketing guy. Why do you think John Wang is the one speaking on behalf of Topping on this Forum? it's not because of his marketing talent.
 

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I know mate, the comment was in reference to posts earlier in one of the many Chord review threads claiming he was only Chord's designer and not a marketing shill when posting on the Chord forums. It seems that idea is well out the window... ;)


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Wasn’t that out the window when he made the infamous -300dB claim back then? ;)
 

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Why do they look like soulless mannequins?

Also why in this staged screencap would they have the DAVE crooked? It's like they're treating it like a newborn but don't know if they wanna keep the kid or not.
 

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Also why in this staged screencap would they have the DAVE crooked?
Yeah I'm quite surprised, especially after the host went through the "Training by Rob Watts™", that the DAC was not on their proprietary stand... which you know, does make it easier to read the screen;

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