It is just an amazing device...both, but one is better... www.faradpower... www.faradpower...
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@franciscobernoussi54952 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. One of the best hearing I've ever heard. Big up Mike !
@Eschew_Obfuscation2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sharing your thoughts. I enjoy hearing What you have to say. And you’re English is very good! Keep up the good work.
@robcaputo9708 Жыл бұрын
You certainly don’t need to apologize for English your passion for the sound corrects any language issue if they even heard one. Please do more videos. Please let me know what the rest of the sound chain was. Yeah, I may not be able to achieve your sound system, but it’s so inspiring.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Hi, please watch more of my videos, the you can find all the good stuff... 😉 cheers Mike
@maartenrib99532 жыл бұрын
Hi mike was a fantastic day and mann you make a hell of a latte coffee. Best of the day. And you ob speakers are the bomb. Such realism all the hard work came out in a few hours. Never had so much goosebums on a day. Will be repeated🎉
@soopy19752 жыл бұрын
Wow I thought Denafrips was great then the Dave 😀 as you say the realism and presence of the audience so much truer 🔥
@ericharrelson20452 жыл бұрын
I own the T+, but on my end, the Dave is clearly another level up.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, yes, but T+ is very good for the price. But if you add XLR cables and Power cable for Athena and Athena itself, price difference is much smaller than expected. But you have to add the Farad upgrade to Dave too...cheers Mike
@Jil88402 жыл бұрын
Chord Dave is the best.
@Stephenwongdirectimaging Жыл бұрын
I have. try. both with my hifiman susvara headphone. I prefer terminator plus more background super dark and smooth detail
@tomb375 Жыл бұрын
Chord! Dave is Much better. Terminator is a little sharp for me on the high end. Thank you for this video.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Hi, Termi is not sharp. Never! Dave is nearly 3x the price ( with this LPS mod) cheers Mike
@tomb375 Жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 What about Holo Spring 3 or May?
@YouSoundButtHurt Жыл бұрын
I went back and forth comparing and the Dave has more detail and presence that I could hear through my headphones compared to the Denafrips. I think the Dave would be worth the premium price over the Terminator.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Yes, but i hope i will find a solution, to get the sound not for a Dave price + 4K for LPS.... maybe the Soulnote D2/D3...cheers Mike
@YouSoundButtHurt Жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 If you find the solution, let us know!
@datka3 Жыл бұрын
I agree it’s hard t add preamp with Dave , DAC direct with Dave is magical .
@asegal4677 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video! Have you any experience with the Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC?
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Hi, no sorry...cheers Mike
@asegal4677 Жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 Thanks!
@edverbeek62922 жыл бұрын
Congratulations with your speakers.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, many thanks, that gives me power... 😄 cheers MIke
@N02tradamus Жыл бұрын
I also have a Dave + Farad3. Farad3 makes it almost like a Dave 2.0. Very nice. :)
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Yep :) Chord has to do it like that way... its time...and a really good outputstage ( discrete ) this device might be a killer cheers Mike
@manardh73872 жыл бұрын
The Denafrips beat the Dave with much better transparency into the piano performance. The Dave put a layer of grunge into the performance.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, yes, well said and heard 😀. Piano sounds real, because the lower octaves where given right.. and the huge soundstage with timing speaks for itsself...cheers Mike
@Jil88402 жыл бұрын
Chord Dave wins hands down. Chord beats the crap of the Denafrips. More transparent, more full bodied, more live, better stereo image, with the chord dave. Thanks for the test.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, Denafrips is no crap, for the price a wonderful DAC. Dave is with LPS 17000€, i think its better to go with Aurender A30... Streamer, DAC and Pre and OCXO Clock...cheers MIke
@jlo87752 жыл бұрын
Chord Dave is garbage. Sorry you got took for $10K 😂🤦♂️
@Rick--A-F Жыл бұрын
Hi, interesting video and lovely large speakers! Could you please give more info about the Farad psu and also what capacitors you used?
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Please ask maartenrib for more information about the farad, he has also news i think... you will find him in the comments at the bottom...cheers Mike
@connorduke46192 жыл бұрын
As per usual with R2R versus FPGA Dac, R2R (Denafrips) wins on tonality and soundstage depth and FPGA (Chord) wins on resolution, so it depends which sonic qualities one prefers. I always go for tonality and soundstage depth and hence the Denafrips here. ps> which power amps are being used here? I am looking through your videos to see whether you have demo'd any Denafrips amps.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, your opinion , but for me and others not even near the truth. Pink Faun 180 monos...cheers Mike
@gioponti63592 жыл бұрын
interesting, through a bluetooth headphone I find the recording with the denapfris to have less syllable issues (less pronounced „sss“), seemingly more enevelopping (?) 3d sound, and more body than with the dave & lps. Dave & Lps however make a nicer piano. wish to hear that live :). Many thanks for sharing!! Also recording is great choice!!
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, Dave is much faster and more precise, please hear this song with your rig, its very very difficult. Dave had its one magic in every way..cheers Mike
@LimePieMusic Жыл бұрын
Terminator is absolutely amazing dac 😃👍
@torus1864 ай бұрын
Yeap but the Chord Dave is better here.
@herbertotto91452 жыл бұрын
Hello Mike, two questions. What amps have you used and who has modified the Dave ?
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, for amps please wait for my next video and please watch in the video discription for link to farad. If you need somebody for installation of the lps upgrade please write me an email. Cheers Mike
@zitronengold2 жыл бұрын
Hallo Mike, - klasse Video und Soundbeispiel. - der Dave klingt verdammt gut. Was wurde an der Stromversorgung verändert, bzw. wie kommen die drei Netzteileausgänge in den Dave? Die zwei AMT's sind über eine extra weiche angeschlossen oder bekommen sie das selbe Signal wie das Horn? gruss Markus
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, wenn du da weiter Interesse zB Kauf des Tunings hast, kann ich gerne vermitteln. Ich selbst habe da keine Aktien drin. Der Mundorf ist mit einer extra Weiche extrem hoch angekoppelt. Cheers Mike
@user-nf4ob5rq4o Жыл бұрын
These two dacs sound differently. If one prefers the “presence” of the sound then Dave is the one to listen. If one values the “smoothnesses and bloom of analog” of the sound (especially the midrange} then the T+ is the one to get. I would get both of them. It’s difficult to choose.😊
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
mmmhh, Dave in this configuation is near 3x the price, for me it is easy to choose... 😁 cheers and thanks Mike
@user-nf4ob5rq4o Жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 Yes. I agreed. But I have learned not to judge the sound based on the price of the components.
@chasehatton3691 Жыл бұрын
The Chord might just get u to turn down the volume slightly to enjoy it. Whereas the Terminator Plus could encourage or illicit the opposite effect. All about dynamics , punch , drive and super soundstaging with imaging with The Chord. Not to be outdone, the Terminator Plus is so silky smooth up and down the sound spectrum. In doing so in such a captivating and easy listening manner. In this contest, I am going for the Chord , albeit at more moderate sound levels.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
We will see, what the new frimware will do....cheers Mike
@backrack012 жыл бұрын
Chord Dave is better. But it's also appx 2x the price. Denafrips has always been great for the money company. I don't think you can get that much better than the Terminator at its price point. It's a wonderful DAC. If you want to hear better... your going to need to spend 14k. :)
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, for me it was important to know there ist something better there. Please be aware, you need Athena for a fair comparsion in price. Also i hear with HEKSE Headphone, the level of this Dave Headamp is very very good... cheers Mike
@Hypofx2 жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 I have Athena paired with Pontus II and Kinki MX 7 best for the buck category price/value ratio is great. I think Athena is a great Preamp and matches to the DAC
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
@@Hypofx Hi, you are right, but it matches up to Terminator II. If you need power and control, there are more affordablöe amps than the EXM7, but again, for the price its very very good...cheers MIke
@Hypofx2 жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 sure i wanted to go with the terminator but i had to draw the line :))
@jlo87752 жыл бұрын
Chord Dave was just tested by Audio Science Review and failed miserably. Imo, Chord is highly overrated to begin with. I have a Terminator I and it’s absolutely superb for the money. To this day the only dac I’ve heard that would make me give up my Terminator is the DCS Bartok.
@kalakalaiand3343 Жыл бұрын
how much would you say farad LPS improves Chord dave? thank you!
@maartenrib9953 Жыл бұрын
Hi here some findings of my dave with farad supply ots a long read but covers it all. I also replaced all Internal caps of the dave this week. That improves the dave on all fronts.
@maartenrib9953 Жыл бұрын
Review farad lps part two After 2 weeks of constantly playing music on the dave with the new farad lps with some constant intervals I listened to the same pieces of music but also tried to analyze some amazing songs that I know very well. Below some of my obvious notes i made these last two weeks and what stood out Bass has gotten a different character besides more presence and strength on almost all tracks, the already not so bad sounding thumps that were not really drawing attention now shifted to a more sole identity of that bass that contributes much more to the soul of each song. The opportunity is also much more there to just focus on for example a voice or violin and tell your brain to cancel out the rest of the music. It almost feels like looking direct into the eyes of the artist. Drama free from deadmau5 is a difficult song for a lot of setups and mostly in the beginning of the song Pre-lps upgrade. After the linear upgrade the voices tend to come looser of the overwhelming continued bass humm and synth. It's a noisy song but now the ease and rest has kicked in to selectively listen, it's like breathing the fresh swiss mountain air instead of flat country air (not city that always sucks). From a technical point of view, what i always tend to approach due to the way i am, I expected the amplifier to have the most control over transients and power of a song. But I now start to realize that the beginning of the chain probably has much more influence as i expected. And is much more important. Listening on low volumes also gives much more satisfaction. The deep dynamic character of the music stays much more sustained than before and with higher volumes. Elton john’s ‘love song’ tapping feet in the right high corner is much more becoming a feet as i hear it instead of a high tick. The playing kids in the rear you can locate and give an accurate position and the waving sea has become much more distant and a bit like a 3d painting. Spacious songs, live and where room ambiance is present got a lot more ease or less fatigue, how you approach that i guess and have become much more musical. Monica Mancini with skylark is singing in a holistic surrounding where she now sings more in the front and her hoarse voice has become much more pleasant and adds a sort of truth to my brain. Sarah mclachlan, an angel her voice is truly sung from out of heaven. The piano now is almost in the same league as her voice and is competing for attention. The closing and opening of her lips are can be heard and compliment the light touches of the piano keys. Really eerie now. The low keys notes of the piano or synth are pounding through my room and make you open your eyes each time. Bizarre song Effortless listening to music and fatigueless on higher volumes, instruments are sliding 3D through your ears creating an absurde realistic stage and image in front of you. Jaw dropping without exaggerating everytime and it's getting better with small steps after 7/8 days now. Also below -24dB in my system the dave seems to find to level out its max dynamic range it seems that’s sort of a sweet spot were everything has maximum depth stage and realism. Celestial echo of malia the bass is relentlessly eerie and floats through the room and takes your eardrums like a feeling of water with no pressure through your head. You slowly when your eyes are shut go into a trance that feels like a warm bath. Absurd, it always sounded beautiful but a lot of music now feels like you understand what the maker was trying to create and that the search of us addicted audiophiles found it at last, that sums up a bit this lps upgrade. The two weeks its online now i noticed a slight shift to become somewhat more smooth and less edgy but that’s really tiny and could be my brain but anyways the pleasant side of the spectrum. Could be changing more in the next few weeks i dont now that. Kudos for farad anyways till now.
@maartenrib9953 Жыл бұрын
To answer how much, it makes it a dave 2.0 and after a while and listening back to a original dave you cannot understand why they placed that cheap switching power supply in there that wrecks the dave and removed the musicality of it. You have to hear it to grasp it. Chord nows this and has some lame respons as the problem is understood but they will never openly acknowledge this.😢
@edwinchann78859 ай бұрын
I recently added the Farad supplies to my Dave/MScaler. It’s night and day better. It’s become an addictive listening experience.
@kalakalaiand33438 ай бұрын
So it would be 3 seperate farad 3 supplies for dave?
@ericelmore27429 ай бұрын
Great review just found your channel. Are you by passing the clock in the streamer by using usb and allowing the terminator and the Dave to utilize there built clock? Was there a sound difference using usb vs coaxial?
@headquarteraudio53889 ай бұрын
Hi, both played with their own internal clock. After my 12th anniversary upgrade, I think Dave will loose the battle. But my friend upgraded the Dave with 10 Farad PS. We will see.. for me now the Arce in Clocksync with T+ is the new king..with Tubulus Concentus I2S cable... cheers Mike
@asw75449 ай бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 Thank you for the video and the great review, you have a very nice system. Were you able to compare Terminator Plus 12th to Dave?
@net_news2 жыл бұрын
the Frips to me
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks. In real here never, Dave is far better, maybe use full HD with very good headphones. Thanks for comment, cheers Mike
@net_news2 жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 will try with better headphones, I've found the Dave a little sibilant.
@twochaudiomg25782 жыл бұрын
Both seemed like bottom end buzzing fat bass. Upper mid on up were nice
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Please let us know your system? Cheers Mike
@johncallaghan30972 жыл бұрын
Please tell us what recording this is. I suspect it might be Sara Bareilles, but if so none of the recordings on KZbin seem to possess as deep piano. I initially liked the terminator's bass and general presentation, but I have to hand it to the Dave, it was imho much better and more realistic, particularly with the ambience -- audience enthusiasm, handclapping, etc. But man, the DAC is £10,000 -- that's three times the cost of my entire system. Gotta draw a line somewhere...;-)
@maartenrib99532 жыл бұрын
Used you can pick them up for much less, and the latest sound exacly the same as the first👍🏻
@QQ-td9id Жыл бұрын
Note technical and production wise, R2R have one potential weakness -- resistor precision variation, when we are arguing about which has better details and transparency, 0.01% variation might count from unit to unit out of the production line! Is the TP you heard the same as my TP?
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
:) I don't care about your TP :) cheers Mike
@ysk2492 жыл бұрын
Great review with comparison videos. However, I couldn’t tell much of a difference between the Chord Dave vs. the built-in DAC of my McIntosh or Sugden amp. So I am not sure if you really need a hi-end DAC if you have hi-end amps.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, you need one, but you also need an optimized environment. Also an amp needs to be able to show the differences easily. Every detail matters...cheers Mike
@TheRaywell Жыл бұрын
thank you for the interesting video, tell me what is better to use for digital audio: pinkfaun i 2 s bridge or matrix element h usb with a usb2 converter to i2s musician phonix ? (dac musician aqiarius)
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Hi, it depends a little on the quality of the PC you use for the Pink Faun Card. I think, Pink Faun is hard to top, and you can upgrade with much better OCXO clocks. Also you need just one cable, like Tubulus I2S... Cheers Mike
@Hypofx2 жыл бұрын
Im not sure about the Athena is the weakest link there, I have too and I checked with much more expansive DACs than my Pontus II and Athena never holder back the DAC don't forget its a zero gain preamp by the way its a great match to my Gold Note Phono
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, i love Athena( see my video) but vs Dave with preout no chance. But as i said for the price a gift..cheers Mike
@Hypofx2 жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 sure sometimes people forget price/value is a thing. you can always find 'better" but:) keep up the good work love the videos
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
@@Hypofx Hi, so i said Athena is very good for the price. But i want more, so i have to invest more, thats the business...cheers Mike
@Hypofx2 жыл бұрын
@@headquarteraudio5388 totally fine :) keep up the good videos
@bedrosdaoudian89272 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this excellent opportunity for us to compare these 2 extremely expensive DACs. However, I seem to disagree slightly with your opinion. The Terminator sounds natural: I play piano myself so I can really tell the Terminator presentation to be a natural sound of piano. With the Dave the piano doesn't sound like a piano! The Dave sound is artrificial and also the separation is not as good. With the Terminator the Piano sound is distinct and clearly separated from the surrounding atmosphere. With the Dave the sound seems muddy where the boundaries are unclear between the piano and the people shouting in the background...The only thing that seems to be superior with the Dave is the beefy vocals with are more punchy than that of the Terminator. That being said, but still even the vocals don't seem to be as natural as in Terminator's presentation.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Maybe you have to be here next time to get the same results 😉 ...cheers Mike
@QQ-td9id Жыл бұрын
I have both here for 2 years, with DDC and M Scaler. Not a piano player but do play a few instrument's and I can't agree with your assessment -- maybe we all have different gears, speakers, listening room environment, and different perceptual brains. In fact ,TP is slightly warmer and "muddier" to me. Note my system goal is also natural, transparent, extreme high FIDELITY, extreme high SNR and low distortion, don't allow any color.
@bedrosdaoudian8927 Жыл бұрын
@@QQ-td9id The difference is that I'm just basing my conclusion depending on what I heard through the video.....
@narisnilubol867 ай бұрын
Honestly, based on this video, I enjoyed denafrips more. Again, it's just a phone recording.
@headquarteraudio53887 ай бұрын
Hi, even with the Samsung recording you can hear the differences very good. There is a new Farad LPS upgrade out there and some other important tunings for the Dave, Terminator has now 12th Firmware, we need a new shootout i think... cheers Mike
@jeffc14216 ай бұрын
I also liked the sound of Terminator better as well. The Chord DAVE's presentation was perhaps more "obvious", but the sound from the Terminiator was more realistic, more organic, and more refined to my ears.
@AusGanesh2 жыл бұрын
Hello friend, Like you I was running Athena with Terminator 2, now I have upgraded to Audio Research Ref 6, I do agree with you that Athena is a bottleneck but very good component for the price. Yes I do agree with you on improvement of sound with Chord Dave in your system. But personally I believe you should have gone and got better line stage, like the Ref6, then you should have compared Cord Dave against Terminator plus. Thank You for the video. Will contact you in regards to XLR connectors soon. By the way what amplifier are you using? I am running Rogue Audio M180 monoblocks. Thank You.
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, why a better linestage AR for 16.000 ? Better Dave with Linestage and Headamp and less expensive cabeling... cheers Mike
@alexfoxpoker Жыл бұрын
Звук в Denafrips и других R2R очень зависит от качества деталей. Вопрос как может ухудшиться качество этих деталей со временем. Как и где потом это все ремонтировать? Chord кажется мне более надежным вариантом. Можно сравнить разные форматы записи, от CD до DSD и как меняется звук.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Во всей этой высокоценовой ерунде обычно используются не более качественные детали, а более качественный маркетинг (дороже), поэтому и дороговизна
@ericlofroos2405 Жыл бұрын
The Denafrips is much more detailed. The sound stage is much closer to the front. The Dave on the other hand has a much fuller sound stage. They’re both great, just different. It all depends on individual taste.
@headquarteraudio5388 Жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks for your opinion, but we heard something else, and its not taste. Cheers Mike
@QQ-td9id Жыл бұрын
IMHO, DAVE has bit more details. I have both of them (TP with optional DDC, DAVE with optional M Scaler) balanced connected to high precision Benchmark HPA4 (with extreme high SNR and low THD+N) + AHB2 + Harbeth M40.3 XD speakers. They are both pretty good to keep, neither is perfect though.
@user-nf4ob5rq4o Жыл бұрын
Do you think TP has more details then Dave?
@headquarteraudio538810 ай бұрын
@@QQ-td9id i heard, tje RCA out is the better output at the Dave cheers Mike
@headquarteraudio538810 ай бұрын
@@user-nf4ob5rq4o Before the 12th FPGA update the Dave had more Details, after, i think, the Terminator Plus is better... we will check this out sometimes.. cheers Mike
@ColocasiaCorm9 ай бұрын
Is it just me or is there serious peak in the treble
@headquarteraudio53885 ай бұрын
just u :) cheers Mike
@ColocasiaCorm9 ай бұрын
2:32 4:44
@ColocasiaCorm9 ай бұрын
Interesting. Termi sounds a little more scooped.
@ColocasiaCorm5 ай бұрын
First is tonally more balanced. Second is little sizzle
@WolfgangWimmer4 ай бұрын
So in conclusion, the Chord Dave DAC is better because you should buy your Power supplies, 3 pieces. This is nothing more than a advertisement video.
@headquarteraudio53884 ай бұрын
This was a shootout for fun with a friend and his gear, i dont sell any powersupplies
@mariuszs92632 жыл бұрын
You should put open baffle on stillpoints fantastic results My open baffle is three way, Raal Lazy Ribbon ,Lowther PM5A Great Plain Audio Model -416-8B Best Regard Robert
@headquarteraudio53882 жыл бұрын
Hi, OB dont like a gap to bottom...so no way for me, thanks. Cheers Mike