Announcing the highly anticipated Chord Electronics DAVE. First we had the highly acclaimed Hugo, then the HUGO TT and now we have the QBD76HDSD replacement with the DAVE.
I’m sure many of you are already curious of the naming scheme before even a second thought of the specification, but it stands for Digital to Analogue Veritas in Extremis.
Launched officially at Munich High End 2015 DAVE features the most advanced chipset to date from the Kent based company. Clocking in with a mere 164000 taps it has considerably more than the Hugo series of hardware. In order to process all of the data in the taps DAVE powers up with an immense 166 seperate DSP cores just for the WTA Filter alone
. It offers a dedicated quarter inch jack socket for your headphones and high quality pre amplifier to plug straight into your power amplifier or active speakers.
Specification
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
Available for delivery this autumn and pre order soon, you will be able to have DAVE at home for just £7995
Chord DAVE DAC (Digital to Analogue Veritas in Extremis)
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