Devialet pro and Chord technology

[salk61]

Hm, so you connected the DAVE/mScaler to the analog input on the 1000Pro? If so, then the 1000Pro used its AD converter to convert back to digital, no? Of course, if it sounds great, it sounds great. But if the DAVE/mScaler is already doing the DA conversion for you, you might get even better results with an amp that doesn't impose an other A-D-D-A conversion on things?

Yes the Dave analog goes to 1000Pro analog, the idea was to get the full benefit of the Mscaler upscaling up to 768 which is not possible with the 1000Pro dac limited to 192 digital input.
I tried different combinations, Mscaler digital connection to 1000Pro direct do bring already an significant improvement, but putting the Dave DAC is a revelation.
I do not know how internally 1000Pro handle digital and analog signal input and to which extend the dac chip is involve with analog input.Would be interesting to find out.

I have the Devialet 1000 pros as well and a roon nucleus plus. I’m very pleasantly surprised by your findings and I am thinking of getting the Dave and the M scaler. I Imagine the connection is going to be like this: USB cable out from Roon nucleus to M scaler which connects to the Dave and ends in the Devialet. Right now my Roon nucleus talks wirelessly to my dCS Network Bridge which is connected by AES/EBU cable digitally to the Devialet. If I go with the new connection with the chords that means I would have no use for the dCS Network Bridge, right?
Look forward to your response