A Heads Up For All Chord QBD76 DAC Owners.

[Barry williams]

There will be no upgrades for it Ever.
The same thing Chord said at the Bristol show before last.
So if you have dealers telling you different?
They are 100% wrong in doing this.
I just got this from the horses mouth,The Chord factory in Maidstone Kent while trying to sort out a home dem of the new black integrated amp with built in DAC.
What they did say was the Munich Hi End Audio show might be interesting.

 

[analogmusic]

Are you talking about the QBD76 or the QBD76HDSD?

There will be no upgrades for it Ever.
The same thing Chord said at the Bristol show before last.
So if you have dealers telling you different?
They are 100% wrong in doing this.
I just got this from the horses mouth,The Chord factory in Maidstone Kent.
What they did say was the Munich Hi End Audio show might be interesting.

 

[Barry williams]

Are you talking about the QBD76 or the QBD76HDSD?

Ali,
The old top range QBD DACs won't be upgraded.
Same goes for anything before the Hugo/Qute2 and TT.

 

[DNM]

What they did say was the Munich Hi End Audio show might be interesting.

They're launching the QBD replacement claimed to take their current DAC designs to whole new level. Now that should indeed be interesting.

 

[Barry williams]

They're launching the QBD replacement claimed to take their current DAC designs to whole new level. Now that should indeed be interesting.

I didn't say they were launching anything.
All Chord would say is the Munich show will be interesting.
As it is most years.

 

[Suffolk Tony]

Oh bum. I was certainly hoping mine would be upgradeable...

 

[DNM]

I didn't say they were launching anything.
All Chord would say is the Munich show will be interesting.
As it is most years.

Yes, I'm sure the Munich show is always interesting Rob Watts has said on another forum that "Project xxxx" (the QBD replacement) will be launched at Munich and he seems rather excited about it.

 

[Barry williams]

Yes, I'm sure the Munich show is always interesting Rob Watts has said on another forum that "Project xxxx" (the QBD replacement) will be launched at Munich and he seems rather excited about it.

Well the factory were saying nothing yesterday.
Do you really know what project xxxx is?
So it will be even more interesting then???

 

[Barry williams]

Oh bum. I was certainly hoping mine would be upgradeable...

Tony,
It will be if you sell it or use the new Naim speaker cables.
I am not going there though with 40 meters.
You use more than me.

 

[DNM]

Well the factory were saying nothing yesterday.
Do you really know what project xxxx is?

I'm going entirely on what Rob Watts himself has said on Head-Fi. There are at least three threads he participates on, Hugo, TT and 2Qute. Interestingly he's removed a recent long post on the 2Qute thread where he talked excitedly about the thinking behind the design of the 3 DACS and gave some insight into how Project xxxx would take performance to a whole new level.

In any event, there are still quite a few posts where he mentions the project and that it will be launched at Munich. He also mentions somewhere that it will be more expensive than the outgoing QBD.

 

[Suffolk Tony]

I recently heard a figure of £7K being bandied about as the likely cost for the new QBD.

 

[analogmusic]

I hope not. no real justification for that price.

I recently heard a figure of £7K being bandied about as the likely cost for the new QBD.

 

[Barry williams]

I hope not. no real justification for that price.

How do you know there is no justification for the price?
It might be a fantastically outstanding SQ DAC.
Its still all speculation at the mo.
Roll on the 14th May.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.highendsociety.de/index.php/en_high_end_moc.html&sa=U&ei=62FHVe7NIYPm7gbXyoDoAQ&ved=0CBQQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHIWWRRS9fW011T3nTwQ-vJ8hxXsQ