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<blockquote data-quote="ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΤΡΥΠΗΣ" data-source="post: 1057589547" data-attributes="member: 596"><p>Rob Watts on Dave's price:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.head-fi.org/t/766517/chord-electronics-dave/1650" target="_blank">http://www.head-fi.org/t/766517/chord-electronics-dave/1650</a></p><p></p><p><em>"On price with Dave it was fairly simple. I designed Dave to suit a sound quality and a performance goal - my own targets, not something Chord was setting. There was no price point set or determined - everything was engineering driven. Once the design was finished, Chord added up the BOM, used their usual multipliers, and that was the price.</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>But I have just gotten back on a small press and dealers trip, and that was interesting. We popped into a dealer who had sold a few Mojo's, and we had a few hours spare. He was a tube/vinyl very high end dealer and I happened to have a Dave in my bag (I hand carry Dave with me on my travels for music in the hotel). So we listened to it, and we got the same reaction you had - every piece of music was spine tingling good - even 1960's Rolling Stones. The dealer said he had never heard digital ever sound like that - indeed, he said it was actually better than his beloved vinyl!</em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>So pretty chuffed by that, we went onto the next meeting with a dealer that stocks Dave, whereupon we were told in no uncertain terms that Dave was just way too cheap. He claimed that nobody will compare a Dave at $13k against a $50k DAC, that to say Dave was better was ridiculous as the price was wrong. It can sound better, measure better, that just didn't matter as the price was wrong, and everybody measures by price. Telling this to an engineering driven company (John was with me) was, shall we say - somewhat disheartening. Ho hum."</em></p><p></p><p>Στη δική σας κρίση βεβαίως...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΤΡΥΠΗΣ, post: 1057589547, member: 596"] Rob Watts on Dave's price: [url]http://www.head-fi.org/t/766517/chord-electronics-dave/1650[/url] [I]"On price with Dave it was fairly simple. I designed Dave to suit a sound quality and a performance goal - my own targets, not something Chord was setting. There was no price point set or determined - everything was engineering driven. Once the design was finished, Chord added up the BOM, used their usual multipliers, and that was the price. But I have just gotten back on a small press and dealers trip, and that was interesting. We popped into a dealer who had sold a few Mojo's, and we had a few hours spare. He was a tube/vinyl very high end dealer and I happened to have a Dave in my bag (I hand carry Dave with me on my travels for music in the hotel). So we listened to it, and we got the same reaction you had - every piece of music was spine tingling good - even 1960's Rolling Stones. The dealer said he had never heard digital ever sound like that - indeed, he said it was actually better than his beloved vinyl! So pretty chuffed by that, we went onto the next meeting with a dealer that stocks Dave, whereupon we were told in no uncertain terms that Dave was just way too cheap. He claimed that nobody will compare a Dave at $13k against a $50k DAC, that to say Dave was better was ridiculous as the price was wrong. It can sound better, measure better, that just didn't matter as the price was wrong, and everybody measures by price. Telling this to an engineering driven company (John was with me) was, shall we say - somewhat disheartening. Ho hum."[/I] Στη δική σας κρίση βεβαίως... [/QUOTE]
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