dCS Varèse

[Matias]

Apparently dCS is expanding to streamers along with separate chassis mono DACs, clock and upsampler. But will they continue threatening to sue reviewers? That is the question! lol

 

[Purité Audio]

Vulgar and repugnant. ( company and product).
Keith

 

[Somafunk]

Just what we need, the internals of a Wim in a fancy chassis

 

[boxerfan88]

Whoa! 5 boxes!!

Opportunity for many power cables & interconnect cables.

 

[Keith_W]

I was looking at the back of this thing and wondered what those connectors are. Each box seems to have one.

I am guessing (from top to bottom):

- Display module / control point
- Clock module
- Monoblock DAC 1 (with 2x XLR and 2x RCA outputs?!)
- Monoblock DAC 2 (also with 2x XLR and 2x RCA outputs)
- Renderer (RJ45 in, USB in + 8 Actus connectors)

From the video it looks like a new proprietary connector.

Note: no Toslink in and no external wi-fi antenna. And no picture of the remote - how do you control this thing? I presume it's an app on a tablet.

 

[Mnyb]

Whoa! 5 boxes!!

Opportunity for many power cables & interconnect cables.

The gauntlet is thrown lets see what the former multibox champion NAIM can do NAIM usually wins the absurd box count competition like mono blocks with external PSU

 

[JSmith]

But will they continue threatening to sue reviewers? That is the question! lol

Hmm... maybe the whole episode was an exercise in negative marketing?


JSmith

 

[Verig]

Note: no Toslink in and no external wi-fi antenna. And no picture of the remote - how do you control this thing? I presume it's an app on a tablet.

External antennas haven't been needed in years. Those traditional small antennas are more like a design point (for gamers) or needed in a very very low cost solutions. Even my low cost (comparatively) and years old NAD M10 is happy without external antennas.

 

[Koeitje]

Yeah you can just put wifi antenna's on the inside alone the edges. In laptops they are often in the bezel of the screen.

 

[Verig]

It would be fun to see a really designed and over engineered wifi antenna though. But I'm guessing dCS user base is not wifi people.

 

[AaronJ]

It would be fun to see a really designed and over engineered wifi antenna though. But I'm guessing dCS user base is not wifi people.

I am sure some dCS owners will argue that Wi-Fi is better due to not being plugged directly into the noisy router.

 

[kemmler3D]

The epitome of ignorant materialism...

 

[Timcognito]

As a long time owner of this, I refuse to comment further.

 

[sq225917]

Mono block dacs, for when you simply have to have the added jitter of an external clock.

 

[Soniclife]

And no picture of the remote - how do you control this thing? I presume it's an app on a tablet.

Your butler does it.

 

[voodooless]

As a long time owner of this, I refuse to comment further.
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That massive dial alone must be worth it

And no picture of the remote

I think it's this. It's from the otherwise totally pointless video..

 

[Keith_W]

That remote has no keyboard. How do you select tracks to listen to on Tidal?

 

[voodooless]

That remote has no keyboard. How do you select tracks to listen to on Tidal?

That's what the top box is for... is the screen with the UI. You just know this is going to be horrible...

 

[ObjectiveSubjectivist]

H@H@H@

Freaking 300k USD if you include CD transport...
I'm not sure if I should laugh.

ps. Funny how they price every component separately, as you would use just their dacs with their proprietary connection system....

 

[voodooless]

Freaking 300k USD if you include CD transport...

At least they throw in some free cables