Recent content by DavidWMB

Pass Labs INT-60. Going long-haul with this Class A gem. I see Pass Labs as one of those lifelong investment brands. It’s not a D’Agostino, but in my budget it’s a Class A reference.

Pardon me for living. I was making an observation about the way it’s going with the prices of audiophile gear. Please don’t be so presumptuous where you have no idea of the journey I went through to be able to finally purchase my mid-tier Pass Labs. I’m a hard worker and it was very difficult to...

I’m amazed how many audiophile dealers survive in South Africa, with obscene prices on gear - excessive import tax, delivery costs and the volatile rand just exacerbating the problem exponentially. South Africa is a developing country where we simply cannot compete with developed counties in...

The Chord Qutest is an amazing desktop, standalone DAC in the Chord Electronics stable. As a desktop DAC in my secondary system, I'm always struck by how intense and engaging the sound is from the Qutest, the body, texture of sound, not to mention micro-dynamics and detail. At its price point...

In this sort of price bracket, the Mola Mola Tambaqui may be a very strong competitor to the Chord Dave. The Mola Mola moreover has I2S which the Chord Dave does not. Steve Guttenberg and John Darko rave about the Mola Mola. Perhaps a better option, price wise, would be to consider the HoloAudio...