Recent content by elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
I wouldn't call feeding into or even against fanboy fanaticism, being a good post. Have something credible to add, technical, or even a good comparison, by all means post. Otherwise it's just noise. Like this post. Don't have anything good to contribute, don't post. Back to silence.- elviscaprice
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
It's difficult to discuss here for it rides against the Chord gospel. Anything that is portrayed as improvement in SQ outside a battery, labtop and toslink is chalked up to noise. Plenty of other forums, like CA, have much to discuss on the matter without being confined by the word. Have to...- elviscaprice
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
Makes quite a difference in my system, using a master clock. Once you hear it, you won't want to take it out.- elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
Good idea. But I'm going to take Rob's word on this, no difference. But I'll add the JS 360 shield onto the supplied cables with the M-Scaler. Funny how so many folks choose what to or not to believe as gospel from Rob concerning his design. Quick to jump on others with this gospel when they...- elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
I like this, your on to something. You actually can think of the m-scaler as a specialized low power computer in a dual computer/renderer setup streaming to the DAC. In essence, the m-scaler makes the primary server less of a factor on SQ. Which is a good thing. Still, regardless of it's...- elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
My answer would be that all your doing is changing the phase/electrical noise accompanying a stream. Solve the clocking and power issues and the resulting streams would be indistinguishable regardless of software, as long as bit perfect.- elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
All I can say is your lost here. All media players will decompress FLAC to PCM before streaming. The amount of power needed to perform this function is meaningless today and has a negligible effect on SQ. There are far more bigger dragons to slay in initiating an audio stream. Mobo design...- elviscaprice
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
Also, DAVE runs off of AC. Be kind of difficult on the airplane to use mobile.- elviscaprice
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Hugo M Scaler by Chord Electronics - The Official Thread
Hugo 2, Qutest, TT2 and DAVE all can max out the Hugo M-Scaler capability.- elviscaprice
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- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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REVIEW: Comparison of 5 High End Digital Music Servers - Aurender N10, CAD CAT server, TotalDac d1-Server, Auralic Aries, Audiophile Vortex Box
You can label it whatever you want, but in the end the component that carries out the streaming is a computer of some sort with a mobo. Your going to want that component to stream to your DAC with the best SQ possible via good clocking and power.- elviscaprice
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
Now you don't believe Rob when he tells you that ferrites make the Hugo M-Scaler worse? When you label his word as final on everything else.- elviscaprice
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
He said the same for 2Qute and I found that a good LPSU made a big difference. Brilliant designs, but from my listening experience an external LPSU made a big difference. Thus I imagine so for the Hugo M-Scaler. Will find out soon enough.- elviscaprice
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
The fact that DAVE plus BLU or Hugo M-Scaler will have the superior SQ.- elviscaprice
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
Hugo M-Scaler won't have a cd transport. Are you suggesting streaming one to it? Just Hugo M-Scaler + LPSU (good one) + clean clocked stream will be number one.- elviscaprice
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CHORD ELECTRONICS DAVE
You don't know that, because we haven't heard the final Hugo M-Scaler yet. It just may be that it beats the BLU on sound, even when using the transport, which would be system dependent. The Hugo M-Scaler can be powered separately with a clean supply like a Paul Hynes SR7. Which just may...- elviscaprice
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