Popular Post Fourlegs Posted February 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2021 @DAVE JS2 I've been interested to read of your journey. I have been a long time advocate of upgraded power supplies for DACs ever since having an Audio Alchemy Digital Decoding Engine (DDE) DAC many decades ago and realised how much better the sound quality was with an upgraded power supply. Latterly I have used a few different power supplies including Farad, SBooster, Uptone, MCRS, Allo Shanti etc and then got the chance to buy a pre owned Sean Jacobs DC3 conversion for the Dave. I was totally stunned but unfortunately for my wallet Sean announced the DC4 soon after and in a leap of faith I became the owner of the first production DC4 for Dave. I have never ever regretted that decision. After that the only thing I have changed is the dc cables from the DC4 to the Dave where I concluded that they were acting as very efficient RF aerials and taking the RF noise straight to the heart of the Dave where it could wreak maximum havoc. Unlike others who have gone down the exotic materials route for the dc cables I now use heavily shielded dc cables to the Dave and the difference is quite profound. The Dave DC4 was so good that I thought very seriously about converting my Blu MkII but in the end I sold that and bought an Mscaler and added a DC4 to that which from a total outlay point of view was a much more sensible decision. I used to like listening to CDs and from a sound quality standpoint it made sense but now with my Innuos streamer, DC4 Dave and DC4 Mscaler there is no longer any reason to want to play CDs for better sound quality (by way of a confession, like @kennyb123 I am also playing with one of the new Antipodes streamers!). I look forward to your further reports! MarkusBarkus, DAVE JS2 and kennyb123 1 2 Owner Wave High Fidelity digital cables : Antipodes Oladra (WAVE Storm BNC spdif RF noise filtering cable to Mscaler) Dave (with Sean Jacobs ARC6 and SJ Cap Board) + WAVE Storm dual BNC RF noise filtering cables ATC150 active speakers. Link to comment
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