Chord DAVE is the English company's top-of-the-line DAC, preamplifier, and headphone amplifier. It offers the best audio performance available on the market, the transparency of Chord Electronics, and an inimitable aesthetic and interface in a perfect form factor.
Chord DAVE is the most advanced DAC ever made by Chord Electronics and therefore, with all due respect to every other manufacturer, the most sophisticated DAC in the world, a device of the highest fidelity . It features the best conversion technology available on the market and incorporates proprietary technical solutions never seen before, making this source and HiFi device the most advanced DAC and preamplifier in the world. DAVE stands for “ Digital to Analogue Veritas in Extremis ”, an acronym that best reflects the capabilities of the product; a device so advanced and with so few compromises that it is truthful in the extreme.
DAVE, which is also a reference headphone amplifier and digital preamplifier, embodies over twenty years of Chord research and advanced engineering. At its heart is an advanced FPGA (Spartan 6 Field Programmable Gate Array) processor with 1,000 times the processing power of a traditional mass-produced DAC chip . DAVE's FPGA processes over a million lines of code in real time to address complex timing problems with absolute precision.
The FPGA's extraordinary capabilities enable a number of key sonic benefits, including significantly improved musical timing and the best-in-class noise modeling performance on the market. DAVE technology delivers music with unparalleled truth and musicality, with unrivaled time response. The device's lossless digital volume control transmits the signal directly to the power amplifier for the purest HiFi experience possible.
