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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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Did he bother to compare it to anything else?  I assume if it’s a typical TAS review he did not. 

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viridian
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It's a forgone conclusion that dcs has tried to influence reviewers in the past, and that TAS reviewers have been less than candid as well. 

geardaddie
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I've heard Varese at a local dealer and also in two home systems that I know well. The dealer had a Vivaldi stack available to AB with and the two home systems had other top shelf sources to compare the Varese with (tape and/or vinyl). Although way out of my price range, Varese is worthy of hyperbole. It is simply spectacular in transparency, dynamics and musicality. Detailed, sure...but still musical. A clear step up from Vivaldi. And, depending on the recording, as good (certainly different presentation in some cases) than the very best tapes or vinyl on hand in the home auditions. 

As for an upgrade being released by dCS next year, I dunno. The former top of the dCS line Vivaldi was 10 years old before the Apex upgrade was introduced...and  the Apex modification was made available to current dCS customers for a relatively reasonable price (considering the price of the units originally). In fact, the Apex technology came from development of the Varese and was introduced in the lower end dCS models even before the Varese came out. 

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larsman
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That's one of those companies that sued a YouTube reviewer who said something subjective about their product they didn't agree with. I would never buy a product from a company that did that. dCS or MSB? Hmmm. They made it easy for me. 

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