{"id":130,"date":"2018-03-26T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/?post_type=product&#038;p=130"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:49:07","slug":"chord-dave-ultimate-reference-dac","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/product\/chord-dave-ultimate-reference-dac\/","title":{"rendered":"Chord DAVE Ultimate Reference DAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"specialbody\">DAVE is the most advanced DAC\/preamp amplifier in the world. It uses proprietary techniques never seen before and offers the very best conversion technology available.<\/p>\n<p>More about DAVE<\/p>\n<p>At its heart lies a new (and in electronics terms, huge) LX75 version of the Spartan 6 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA\u2019s extraordinary capability enables a number of key sonic benefits including significantly improved timing and the best noise-shaper performance of any known DAC. DAVE\u2019s technology delivers music with unmatched reality and musicality, with an unrivalled timing response.<\/p>\n<p>Technology in depth: new WTA filter<\/p>\n<p>Chord Electronics has implemented a brand new WTA (Watts Transient Aligned) filter with 164,000 taps. WTA filtering is now up to 256 FS (that&#8217;s 256-times the sample frequency) \u2014 no other DAC has ever FIR filtered at such a high rate! In order to process signals at this unprecedented rate, DAVE has massive parallel-processing capacity with 166 separate DSP cores just for the WTA filtering alone. This enables DAVE to reproduce the original unsampled analogue signal more accurately than any other DAC.<\/p>\n<p>The output stage has been advanced with a new 20-element Pulse Array DAC and a unique second-order analogue noise-shaper, which gives ultra-high-frequency linearity. Its output feeds both balanced XLR and single-ended RCA outputs, as well as an advanced headphone output with more than enough capability for the most impedance-challenging headphones.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to what Hi-Fi News said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A rare high score for Chord\u2019s DAVE, but then this is no ordinary digital-to-analogue converter.<br \/>\nFrom the handcrafted quality of its casework to the sheer quantity of proprietary engineering within, this is a standard-setting product, and when you hear it in action<br \/>\nall that hard work \u2013 and the price \u2013 is more than justified by a scintillating performance. From lab to listening room, this is an outstanding product.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE is the most advanced DAC\/preamp amplifier in the world. It uses proprietary techniques never seen before and offers the very best conversion technology available. More about DAVE At its heart lies a new (and in electronics terms, huge) LX75 version of the Spartan 6 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA\u2019s extraordinary capability enables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":131,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[32],"class_list":["post-130","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-audio","product_tag-chord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.americanhifi.com\/wp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}