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

I only wish I could go to an audio store and hear these unicorns.i live in a non audio state with low population.but I will have to live vicariously through the reviewers eyes and ears.maybe I could become a reviewer and have the factory send me stuff i could review for 6 months at a time .then I would not have to spend any money.i want to go to the aponexa but my wife is carting me off to get kidnaped out of country.enjoy the search and the music.

It will definitely give you a chance to buy last years model at a greatly reduced price.  Maybe…

 

I would never buy a product from a company that did that. dCS or MSB? Hmmm. They made it easy for me. 

 

Are you aware of the history when it comes to MSB? Maybe not a great example in this context.

Anyone outraged by the review of the DCS Varese should read the review of the $11,100 MBL Cadenza in the December 2024 TAS.  There are many fine digital players at many different price levels.  

Anything that cost $250,000 and up from there better damn well move one to tears