DAVE's Popped In
Posted by: tonym on 20 January 2016
On loan from my trusty dealers, I've been feeding him a diet of room-corrected Amarra music files from my Mac Mini via USB iFi supply and from my USB/SPDIF convertor through BNC. He seems very keen on everything I've given him so far, and is performing some excellent little tricks; like extracting more detail, giving bass a clearer focus, and adding rather a lot to depth of image, the latter quite striking. We've become very good friends over the last couple of days and he's indicated he'd like to stay here.
As you might have gathered, I'm rather enamoured with Mr DAVE. Purely platonic of course. He's got lots of inputs and several rather dramatic display options, four in all (or off completely). He's more or less the same shape as my trusty QBD76 HDSD, as can be seen in the photos :-
Hi Tony,
Interesting that the brightness in vocals was the same complaint I had with the 2Qute. Perhaps if they put the DAVE chipset with a battery supply they would have a winning combination.
Although the Hugo doesn't have a buffer system Audirvana does and this may explain why it sounds better through the AV software.
Anyway you've saved yourself a few bob. 
See you next week.
Steve
Steve J posted:Hi Tony,
Interesting that the brightness in vocals was the same complaint I had with the 2Qute. Perhaps if they put the DAVE chipset with a battery supply they would have a winning combination.
Although the Hugo doesn't have a buffer system Audirvana does and this may explain why it sounds better through the AV software.
Anyway you've saved yourself a few bob.
See you next week.
Steve
I felt the same about the 2Qute after going back to Hugo and this came to mind reading the post earlier this morning. 2Bright would be more accurate a name...'new' Naim Dac & XPS sounding fine HH!
G