Unfortunately it is simply too "stressful" and "fatigueing". It would be such a great show, Rob Watts on stage, hundreds or thousands of audiophiles in the audience and he ABX-ing against all the other manufactures who are exclusively doing it wrong and coloring the sound, from Topping, SMSL over RME, Okto, Benchmark to dCS, Weiss, MSB, Nagra, EMM Labs and the like.I cant believe Chord are planning an Ultimate DAC which will cost even more than the DAVE.
If and when that product lands would be great to see it measured.
What makes me laugh is, if the difference with a Chord DAC is so obvious, Rob Watts could silence all this with a blind ABX test.
The fact that one has not been done or as far as I can tell planned shows that there is no night and day or even subtle differences that would allow Rob to tell the DAVE from equally level matched 3rd party DACs.
Kev
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