dCS new flagship

[Mike Lavigne]

The vivaldi is already very quite on its power side, so very little to be gained obviously from splitting it into separate boxes.
The big gain I guess is on cross talk, and the mono dac's will certainly help that, and be in it's design,much quieter.

the Wadax dac chassis is complete dual mono with the digital control unit in between. needs 8 footers. then they have dual 45 pound outboard power supplies. the Wadax Ref server has a 90 pound outboard power supply.

until you A/B how power supplies and Akasa DC cables transform Wadax it's hard to imagine how it can boost performance. Wadax seemed quiet as tomb. but there is more to power supplies than just the perceived absence of noise. micro-dynamics, weight and ease all come from better power supplies.

and digital performance clearly gets transformed a great deal by advances in this area.

look at how much work Emile has done on the Taiko Olympus battery power supplies.

 

[PeterA]

It’s an interesting aesthetic. The variation of the face plate designs is curious. Why just three rather than all four? A fourth small box with the major crease arched from top left to bottom right and minor crease starting in lower left corner seems missing. That would complete the four variations on the theme.

The top and bottom box face plates are the same variation, just different proportions.

 

[Kingsrule]

The biggest issue with Vivaldi is the cable scheme connecting all the boxes. With customer supplied cables one could never get a fixed measure of its sonics.
With dCS supplied cabling between the Varese boxes(if I understand correctly), we now have a fixed data point to work with. Time will tell....

 

[Elliot G.]

the Wadax dac chassis is complete dual mono with the digital control unit in between. needs 8 footers. then they have dual 45 pound outboard power supplies. the Wadax Ref server has a 90 pound outboard power supply.

until you A/B how power supplies and Akasa DC cables transform Wadax it's hard to imagine how it can boost performance. Wadax seemed quiet as tomb. but there is more to power supplies than just the perceived absence of noise. micro-dynamics, weight and ease all come from better power supplies.

and digital performance clearly gets transformed a great deal by advances in this area.

look at how much work Emile has done on the Taiko Olympus battery power supplies.

from my experiences over the last year there is no such thing as quiet enough. The reason I say this is becasue you don't know what you don't know is possible. The change is power supply cables, the change in how the units are connected to electricity, the cables that are used to connect to electricity , the power conditioner and power distributor used to connect it all together and then grounding the whole thing each take "quietness" to new unexperienced before places which deliver MORE.
What is More? More is an audio destination that is constantly evolving. I don't know what the dCS will do and what its capabilities will be so bring it on and maybe we can all learn someting more. It does look like it will require a lot of cables...