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I'm BigBobJoylove.
Your dream digital set-up
After hearing a DCS Scarlatti front end at the Scottish hi-fi show a few months ago, I have to say that I never expected such grace, naturalness and musicality from a silver disc spinner. Awesome, frankly awesome!
Mind you, for the fat end of £40k it should sound reasonably good.
Transport:
Clock:
DAC:
Yummy!
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The above is also my dream digital setup. It would have to be sitting on acrylic Quadraspire Reference supports though.
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Pah! Who wants that unnatural sounding up-sampling bollocks? A classic Jap battleship CDP (full of yummy bits) is what you want, modified and upgraded with top-notch up-to-date components
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Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I'm BigBobJoylove.
Me.Originally Posted by Marco
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Me too if I could afford it.
I've heard it and with that you can probably forget your black discs.
(apart from those 200g virgin pressings that you've got that seem to defy any theoretical notion of dynamic range limitations from vinyl...)
Rick/Larry, tell us more.
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Dream on, sunshine!I've heard it and with that you can probably forget your black discs.
However, DCS make some fantastic CD players.
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I'm buying a lot of re-issues cut into heavy vinyl.These really heavy examples of Led Zepppelin sound fantastic (Better than the 1st issue Atlantic Plumbs)...Not many within my type of music...The new 180 grammers are nice tho...
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These are pics I took of the Scarlatti on demonstration at the Audio Works last summer:
This particular combination sounded absolutely stunning and comprised of:
Scarlatti Transport, DAC and Word Clock
Spectral DMC-15 preamp.
Densen B-330 power amp
Peak Consult Princess speakers
Siltech Forbes Lake and SQ 28 interconnects
Chord Epic Twin cables
Music Works Reflex block and Recoil leads.
Music Works/Quadraspire Reference stands (large) in acrylic.
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Location: Norfolk, UK
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I'm BigBobJoylove.
Don't let me bring my credit card on Saturday mate.
The DCS equipment looks so solid, matches the solid sound.
Lounge:
Samsung QE65QN80F 65" QLED TV
Echo Link streamer
RME Audio ADI-2 FS (AK4493) DAC
XMOS DSD Async
Emotiva A2+ power amplifier
Neat Motive SX1 speakers
Van Damme 4.00mm tour grade speaker cable
Audiocrast Spreizbar banana plugs
Chord Clearway XLR interconnects
Audioquest Crimson USB interconnect
QED Quartz Reference optical interconnect
Studio:
2022 MacBook Pro 14" M1 Pro 10/16/16/16
SMSL SU-1 DAC
Modified Fosi P4 preamp
Adam Audio T5Vs
Fenton 10" active sub
Fosi V1.0G integrated amp
Roxel RBS 300s
Several small valve preamps
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It has to be the Scarlatti as well for me. Although with Marco's comment, I have heard CD Players with upsamplers where the upsampler does more harm than good.
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