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dCS Puccini Clock

I had yesterday the oportunity to hear for first time the Puccini clock.

I must admit that I was a little sceptical. The system consisted of:

Howland preamp HP-200 SE
Howland amp RADIA SE
Avalon Indra
Transparent power cleaner / station ?
I can't tell which cables

Well the effect is quite amazing and you can easily recognize it in a blind hearing. If I have to describe it I would say, you become aware of the hall / the space in which the recording has been done. The difference is very noticeable when you switch the clock off, suddenly the music sounds dryer, shorter and the space all around the whole music desapears.

I heard:
Luiz Bonfa plays and sing Bossa Nova (Verve)
Bruckner 4th by Jaap van Zweden (bad SACD & interpretation)
Bruckner 4th by Günter Wand (the last recording)
Ports of Call by Eiji Oue (Ref. Rec. bravo Prof. Johnson you are a great sound engeneer!)

One of these days I will take it home and have a test on my system ... and will make some blind hearing with my wife ;-)

I will report then about the experience.
clavil

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beolab
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I got the dCS Puccini , Puccini U-Clock , dCS Network Bridge Streamer with the MIT Oracle MA-X digital BNC word.clock cables, and find this setup sound very well , better than my Debussy in my other setup. 

( Power: Isotek Sirius powerfilter, Audioquest N1000 72v powercords ) 

I am just struggling with the settings of Filtering / Upsampling. 

I think i like the DSD Filter setting 2 best. 

And i have the the MIT Oracle MA-X word. clock knob setting to the MAX from dCS recommendation. 

Do you guys have any other recommendation on the settings for the best SQ performance? 

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