First off, I used "crazy" referring to passionate enthusiasts in the most positive way,Don’t agree with that at all. I certainly wouldn’t call myself crazy!
Though my DAVE was used and was stock, I paid around 50% of its retail price and spent just a couple of hundred £s, if that, getting help from someone else to mod it (larger caps and resistors) to bring better performance to the headphone dac element IMO.
As previously mentioned there is no known successor to Dave from Chrord scheduled for anytime soon. Instead there is finally a scaler built for it, so we no longer have to use the scaler that was actually built for TT2, and one that will certainly breathe new life into the desire to have or even find, a used Dave. Thats my take on it anyway but guess we will know what impact it has by the end of the year.
Secondly, you just proved my point.
You bought a used DAVE and implemented the mods on your own.
Why buy a DAVE modified by someone else?