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The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history??

In the current issue of  'The Absolute Sound' magazine, Jacob Heilbrun applies about as much hyperbole on the new dCS Varese DAC stack as I have ever read!!

There are references to the sound of a 'live' piano and other points about the 'quantum leap in SQ' of this product.

Yet, i ask this, how is it possible that the digital recording chain can in fact pick up the many incredible subtleties that Jacob references in his review?? 

Nonetheless, at the price asked for the new Varese, it had better do your washing, cooking and take out the dog for a walk! 

 

Next year, we will hear how the new dCS Varese is being upgraded, and that the new revisions are more accurate, more resolving, more this...more that, for a large price increase. Pathetic on a number of plains. Thoughts?

daveyf

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audition__audio
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audio-b-dog see a bit of logical problem with your way of thinking? What type of scoundrel spends 18K on speakers? So I guess 20K for a pair is right out of the question. You draw the line and let us know. 

And then daveyf comes in and gives him some support. Like feeding the neighborhood stray cat.

 

audition__audio
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My most expensive component are my amps at $ 19K. In my mind the obscenity of a $ 19K purchase is little different than that of a $ 250K purchase. Key to this is that I set these limits for myself and not others. 

 

audition__audio
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So your concern is economic rather than social. The operative word is not need, but rather want.

audition__audio
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Well I would completely ignore any discussion of anything audio related on ASR, just as an example. 

I never put much stock in reviewers or reviews. Perhaps a bit less these days than back in...

Like you, b-dog, I can get any digital rig regardless of price equal my analog front end. I currently use a $ 1K Simaudio for digital with no plans in the near future to upgrade. 

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