Chord Electronics Dave DAC/Preamp/Headphone Amplifier

Code: CE-DAVE

£10,495.00
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DAVE is the most advanced DAC Chord have ever made. It features the very best conversion technology available, using proprietary techniques never seen before, making DAVE the most advanced DAC/preamp amplifier in the world. DAVE stands for 'Digital to Analogue Veritas in Extremis', a moniker that best reflects the product's capability; a device so advanced and with so few compromises, that it is absolutely truthful in the extreme - a standard that all other DACs on the market simply cannot hope to match.

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The DAC, which is also a reference-level headphone amplifier and 'digital preamp', distils twenty years of Chord research, development and advanced engineering into one device. At its heart lies a new version of the advanced Spartan 6 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with 1,000x the processing power of the traditional mass-produced chip DAC. DAVE's FPGA is loaded with over a million lines of code to confront complex timing issues head-on, with speed and precision.

Technical Specifications:

Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz +/- 0.1dB
THD +N: -127.5dB (AWT)
Channel Separation: >125dB @ 1kHz
Dynamic Range: 127.5dB (AWT)
Headphone Output: 1% THD 6.8v RMS with 300Ω (154mW) / 1% THD 6.8v RMS with 33Ω (1.4w)
Output Impedance: 0.055Ω (short circuit protected)
Operating voltage: 90v AC – 250v AV auto switching 50Hz – 60Hz
Dimensions (including connectors): 7.8cm (H) 33.5cm (W) 15.2cm (D)
Weight: 5kg

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