
Chord DAVE DAC/Amp & Pre-Amplifier
Please contact us for availability or to order Chord DAVE! DAVE is the most advanced DAC Chord has ever made. It features the very best conversion technology available, using proprietary techniques never seen before, making DAVE one of the most advanced DAC/preamp amplifier in the world. Our Take Loaded with Chords latest-generation FPGA technology DAVE is one of the most advanced DACs in the world, a true reference-level product. The Story A DAC Unlike Anything Else DAVE stands for ‘Digital to Analogue Veritas in Extremis’, a moniker that best reflects the product’s capability. The DAC, which is also a reference-level headphone amplifier and ‘digital preamp’, distills 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