04-Aug-2016, 13:32
When an amplifier comes up to the chest of a pair of Alexia's you just know that it's time to move house - for space and/or divorce reasons.
I thought my old Krell FPB 400 was a lump but this looks like three lumps stuck together!
Only heard the dCS stack at recent shows and through unfamiliar electronics and speakers. Had the Elgar DAC in my system about 10 years ago for a demo - it was extremely good - natural, unforced yet extremely revealing digital - just could not afford it at the time.
Just to power up the dCS stack would use all the sockets on my PS Powerplant! (why 4 boxes? transport, dac - what else? upsampler? dual mono dacs?)
After Devialet I could never go back to all the boxes, interconnects, power cables and supports required to run a full 'old school' system.
I thought my old Krell FPB 400 was a lump but this looks like three lumps stuck together!
Only heard the dCS stack at recent shows and through unfamiliar electronics and speakers. Had the Elgar DAC in my system about 10 years ago for a demo - it was extremely good - natural, unforced yet extremely revealing digital - just could not afford it at the time.
Just to power up the dCS stack would use all the sockets on my PS Powerplant! (why 4 boxes? transport, dac - what else? upsampler? dual mono dacs?)
After Devialet I could never go back to all the boxes, interconnects, power cables and supports required to run a full 'old school' system.
