@tubeguy80,
+1. I used to own dcs gear. Gave them all up for the same reason and never looked back. I would not advise putting them in any system even if you can afford them.
The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history??
In the current issue of 'The Absolute Sound' magazine, Jacob Heilbrun applies about as much hyperbole on the new dCS Varese DAC stack as I have ever read!!
There are references to the sound of a 'live' piano and other points about the 'quantum leap in SQ' of this product.
Yet, i ask this, how is it possible that the digital recording chain can in fact pick up the many incredible subtleties that Jacob references in his review??
Nonetheless, at the price asked for the new Varese, it had better do your washing, cooking and take out the dog for a walk!
Next year, we will hear how the new dCS Varese is being upgraded, and that the new revisions are more accurate, more resolving, more this...more that, for a large price increase. Pathetic on a number of plains. Thoughts?
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No joke please. I still hear many layers of veils from every dCSs. My SACD player (1/130 price) in my humble system sounds cleaner and more musical. Alex/Wavetouch audio Original music https://youtu.be/kYICwkCnUIk?si=p47Uq2pKrJDtPY4y My WT BDP95 https://youtu.be/rOJItHbn8DY?si=DHtI1VarmiLsValM dCS https://youtu.be/dvYZ5Mu32xs?si=R-5xG_79pK9UCtzs&t=1397 ======= Original music https://youtu.be/xG5HsHC4eeA?si=HECtz1Z2jBCLcSCV My WT BDP95 https://youtu.be/4d_AnQXtxKY?si=gP3b5FV9LVH4l-Ei&t=211 |
Given Jacob’s extremely good hearing, I am sure that the DCS is all its cracked up to be. But, as with any company reaching for the stars, they will make some new discovery and implement it. Why all the snark? I can’t afford this particular stack, either, but I don’t begrudge those who can. Isn’t the goal (for some of us) to reproduce a credible illusion of the live experience (if there even was one)? I’m not certain I’d buy a 254k stack even if I could (again) afford it, just because I’d rather use that on a first class trip to Thailand and five or six other countries! But I’d buy a DCS Bartok Apex for the low, low price of only...7k !! DCS is one of the really great digital products on the market. There are others. |
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