It’s all preference and opinion. He really likes the Chord sound, and his setup includes the Blu MK2 and M Scaler.
I didn’t have the M Scaler when I had the Hugo TT2, but I was very impressed with what I heard. It wasn’t by any means an end-game sound for me, I prefer more dynamics than what I heard.
There are other dacs on that list that are more in line with my preferences. I wouldn’t simply dismiss his choices because I don’t agree with his top pick.
I understand what you are saying but his top pick will be his favourite sound. SO if you don’t like what he loves then you have to take his other picks with a grain of salt. Personally I prefer the Qutest and even the Mojo over the Dave, it’s got an ugly sound
I have like 2 albums both samplers. But It’s something I want to get into in a small degree.
I have a Hugo TT2 as my main driver. Dynamics are great for me but am fully aware that you need to put it at high gain in its headamp section to get that.
apparently the Mscaler improves dynamics according to the white paper on its design
That’s what I figured. And my time with the TT2 left me wanting a Qutest + MScaler combo as a secondary dac. Rob Watts is doing some good work with those FPGA’s. 
Definitely. One of my big upgrade paths is the Mscaler and eventually the dave or whatever succeeds it (which I have no doubt since the Headamp section of the dave is considered weak in comparison to the TT2, some HUGE GRAIN OF SALT rumored speculation is that whatever the new flagship dac will be, it may include Mscaler tech built in and possible network streaming tech. which is basically something they already developed with the y2 2go)
That would be really interesting. 
yeah. it makes sense the lower cost stuff is where they experiment and work on stuff thats new (the Etude amp preceeded the big ticket ultimas for example)
I like Tarun level headed he speaks a lot of truths 
So I typically watch: Zeos, Thomas, The next best thing, Zero fidelity, Guttenberg, Darko, Digital Stereophony, Joe N Tell, abyss…
I’ve started a few new channels… The Headphone Show, Currawong, MidFi Guy, Josh Valour, New Record Day, DMS, Passion for Sound, Soundnews.
I’m actually starting to find more value from the second list than the prior… These guys get a bit more technical and into the weeds that the “big” channels that skim over the meat and potatoes.
That’s a lot of review watching! 
How would you fight the urge to not be constantly buying lol
I am constantly buying… But the reviews feed what I build into my savings/spend plan.
I bought the Maggie LRS and am currently saving to buy a speaker amp to power both the Maggies and my Abyss 1266’s. Looking into speaker cables, customer cables (speaker taps to xlr), the hifi He6 adapter, etc…
In the future I want an R2R dac (Holo Audio Spring or MHDT)… At this point I’m looking for quality > quantity and just need to prioritize where I spend and save.
Eventually a Flux FA-10, RebelAmp, Topping A90, Burson Conductor 3XR might all be in my future… I’d also love to demo to ZMF & Focal product eventually as well. But the reviews are critical to help focus attention on which direction to go along with this forum.
I think while there are varying degrees of fun viewers
I think the most concise and informative of the more straightforward and info based reviewers is Currawong. Next best Thing, Zero Fidelity are great but because I’m not too informed on audiophile terminology I tend to have to stop frequently and try and figure out what they mean, whereas I never feel that lost with Currawong for some reason.
Mostly check in with zeo to see what audio crack i could score to feed the habit and not go homeless. Also, guttenberg and a euro fella called anadialog becuase they fit the MO of a audio nut.
I like Currawong but for some reason I have a hard time watching his videos completely. His voice is too calm, I space out.
RIP InnerFidelity.com.
RIP Wall of Fame.
AVTech Media, the owner of IF and Audiostream has re-directed their URLs to Stereophile.com (a mainly 2-channel site with no headphone section — maybe that will change?).
For anyone unfamiliar with the back story, InnerFidelity was for many years the headphone review site of Tyll Herstens. Tyll had both an engineering and an audio background, created the first, or one of the first, dedicated headphone amps, and pioneered the use of a variety of digital measurements as an adjunct to headphone reviews. For years, InnerFidelity was one of the key players in the on-line headphone scene.
Tyll retired shortly after the owning publisher sold InnerFidelity and a suite of similar sites to a new owner a couple years ago. The new owner put Rafe Arnott in charge of InnerFidelity. Rafe immediately took the site in a totally different direction – full-subjectivity – and quite possibly tanked the site’s readership. Some months back a frequent contributor, Grover Neville, seemed to have taken over editorship of InnerFidelity, although this was not announced. Now the site is gone.
InnerFidelity’s contents are backed up on archive.org.
I noticed that actually, was surprising and a shame that they just ran it into the ground
If you want to view it. Going to: http://cdn.innerfidelity.com/ still works.
If links don’t work, you can just change ‘cdn.’ to the url as appropriate.
That’s fabulous – any idea why there is a cdn for InnerFidelity?