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HiFiFan, you mentioned a little earlier in the thread that you had upgraded from the Berkeley Alpha DAC to the Chord DAVE. I should probably ask this in a new thread but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the strengths of the DAVE over the Alpha DAC. Was the DAVE in a totally different leag...

Might be interesting to some people https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/ca-acade ... load-r780/
There is a nice document to go with the audio files

Here is my review Equipment Used: Speakers: Wilson Audio Sasha 2 DAC: Chord DAVE Source: MacMini, Roon, Sonore microRendu with Uptone Audio UltraCap LPS-1.2 Music: Mixture of redbook and hi-rez via HDTracks, Tidal and Quboz I’ll start this review by saying that at the end of our listening period we ...

As a matter of interest, is there a particular area that you were looking to improve on over your current amps? Scale, resolution, style of presentation, etc? No one thing, but if you were to press me, I would probably say scale and soundstage. I am a sucker for resolution but thought the Veritas d...

Just a stupid question, what is the idea behind the wooden blocks under the equipment? Isolation is obvious for turntables or CD players, moving parts and all that, but also works under heavy amps. The amps come with GAiA III isolators from Isoacoustics, the Veritas had StillPoints. For the speaker...

I haven't let them warm up for the full 2 days yet but couldn't resist a bit of listening last night. In a few days I'll post some details but initial impressions really positive. Here are three quotes from my wife "I feel I am hearing it the way it was meant to be for the first time" &quo...

Hi, not a stupid question but perhaps a stupid answer/reason. These are a very cheap attempt to have some type of vibration control. These blocks are cork. The units are on Isolate Sorbothane pads and then on the cork. Except for the DAVE which I have sometimes been tempted to get its proper stand f...

The Merrill Audio Element 116s arrived yesterday. They are warming up. I will start some serious listening at the weekend and post my impressions.

Very nice, congrats.