Further Adventures with DC Power for Chord DAVE (and Blu Mk II)

[kennyb123]

The Farad Super3 in 15v brought a very significant improvement to my TT2.  I have no doubt it would do the same for the DAVE.  

 

I have two Super3s in 15v as the other is for my HMS. I was planning to sell it given that I no longer use my HMS. But maybe I should hang onto it for when I finally get around to upgrading to DAVE.  All I'd need to add is an LPS-1.2 and a DC cable that would switch the pins to give me -15v.

[kennyb123]

3 hours ago, MarkusBarkus said:

What gives with HMS, @kennyb123 ? 

 

I took a leap of faith in hopes of improving the sound quality of Roon.  The goal was to try Roon/HQPlayer integration but this was not supported by my music server, an Innuos Zenith Mk3.  The leap involved purchasing an Antipodes K30 with the plan to help fund that by selling both my Zenith and HMS if it turned out to be a significant upgrade.  The K30 arrived last week and it has been blowing my mind.  Roon/HQPlayer integration has brought the best sound I've yet heard from Roon.  But even better is the sound quality from HQPlayer then Roon is stopped.

 

HQPlayer does offer similar benefits to the HMS, but I think the HMS might provide a bigger lift.  But the bigger deal is the lift I got from the K30 over the Zenith.  It's not really a fair fight there as the K30 is more than twice as expensive as the Zenith Mk3.  The Zenith is a darn good music server for the price - it's exceptionally transparent when using the built in Squeeze player.  The K30 is in another league though.  I'll be posting observations on it in maybe another week or so once it has been given sufficient time to fully settle in.