Shirley Horn sounded as sophisticated, quiet, and cool as I have ever heard her, and the silences between notes were profound. Dynamics and shadings both macro and micro were nailed, and even the smallest changes in delivery and articulation were audible. After that comes MQA, whose implementation is slowed because dCS uses FPGAs rather than off-the-shelf MQA hardware.Įven above the booming from the Zellaton room next doorthere has been an ongoing war between dCS and Zellaton over the last few years, which would never have occurred were the MOC's dividing walls more substantialthe superior weight and impact of this dCS/D'Agostino/Wilson/Transparent system set it way, way, way above the pack.
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Roon integration is next on the dCS upgrade list.
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While there was no time to conduct a comparison between upsampling to DXD and to DSD, I have been told that the sonic advantage DXD held over DSD in earlier software versions has now been reversed.
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The Upsampler upgradenew USB and network hardware plus new softwarerequires shipment back to the UK factory. In a by-now-familiar system configuration, dCS officially launched Vivaldi 2.0 transport and DAC software (free to Vivaldi owners) and Vivaldi 2 upsampler software ($2000). Also in the line are the ACC 206 ($69,000/pair with 8m speaker cables) and ACC 268 ($88,000/pair with 8m speaker cables). The ACC 169 has 169 poles of articulation, if you understand what that means. Here's hoping that will change.īefore I could set foot in the Magico room, which used MIT cabling, Kent Loughlin of MIT greeted me with talk of the world debut of the MIT Articulation Control Consolesa new technology that, according to Loughlin, "throws more energy into the room, and gives you a visceral impact you can feel in terms of sound pressure." Calling them "the new pinnacle" of MIT's line, Loughlin displayed the entry-level ACC 169 ($46,000/pair with 8m speaker cables, with $1000 for each additional 5m). I neither made notes on all of the equipment nor spent time listening because, sadly, the extremely attractive Rosso Fiorentino loudspeakers and some of the electronics are not imported into the US at present.
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"Everything is controlled from the plinth," he told me. It is also more user-friendly than Johnnie Bergmann's other three models (by his own admission), and includes an automatic switch-off. You can mount up to four arms, either radial or linear tracking, on the Galder. Note that the exhibitors in the room turned around the system by 180 degrees and built a dividing wall behind the speakers that incorporated sound-enhancing materials.Īt the head of the system was the brand new Bergmann Galder air-bearing turntable (15,000): the only table in Bergmann's line that's sold without an arm. Such a high rating wasn't just because he felt the equipment, including the sound treatment and the low racks, was attractive: He also felt the setup could comfortably fit into a living room without competing for living space, and that its sound was very easy to listen to. The SAF ( see here) gave this room an 8.5.