Rob,
Your components are arguably the best in the world and have changed my listening experience. I have not heard a dac that betters Dave and I believe the blu2/Dave combo to be the best digital source component in the world. I personally am grateful that you’ve applied your genius to providing us with the best possible listening experience. That being said, could you include no less than 50 ferrites per cable with dave and blu2? It’d be great if all the ferrites were all the exact same shade of matte black. My wife occasionally tells me I’m OCD, but I know she’s the crazy one.
Having intensively auditioned the BLU"/DAVE combo via highend headphones only so far I was also very impressed with how unexpectedly and surprisingly good rbcd can sound via that combo.
But since I am absolutely NOT willing to cough up the necessary sum to buy one of those or even a DAVE, I am constantly looking for more affordable alternatives to get as close to digital SOTA SQ as possible.
If I understand things correctly what the M-scaler does is add even more interpolation to low res ie 16/44.1 than even DAVE on its own does by upsampling 16/44.1 to 32 bits 705.6 khz?
I thought the only way to do so was with BLU2 so far?
A separate M scaler still being a thing only hinted at from Chord.
But since my oldish SACD player is refusing more discs than it accepts and also plays the ones it does play a bit below my Quetest DAC in plain SQ terms I have been looking for an upgrade in order to still be able to play my roughly 200 SACDs and rbcds before the manufacturers stop making SACD capable players .
During this search I stumbled upon an SACD /CD player from DENON "DCD 2500" which according to the technical information provided both by DENON and a susprising load of VERY positive reviews indeed! in basically all the major European HIFI mags ,also upsamples rbcd to
32 bits/705.6khz !!!
And it seems to do so for a mere fraction of the price CHORD wants for a DAVE /BLU2 combo. The price of the DCD 2500 seems to hover around the 1500-to 2000€ level from most dealers.
Is there anybody here who has any experience with this product?
Or even compared it to DAVE/BLU2?
Cheers Christer now back home in hot and sunny Sweden after nearly 8 months in Asia and on a daily basis playing a lot of very nice sounding LPs via my electrostatic speakers too.