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.
Devialet 1000 Pro; Magico A5 loudspeakers; Metronome T3a Signature CD Transport; dCS Network Bridge; Kuzma M turntable; Kuzma 4Point14 tonearm; Koetsu Sky Blue; Benzmicro LPS; Audioquest Vodka Ethernet; Transparent Reference Digital RCA-RCA; Transparent Reference XL MM2 speaker cable; Transparent Reference mains cable; PS Audio P5 PowerPlant; Artesania and Finite Elemente equipment racks
North Somerset, UK
