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:

http://www.aslgroup.com/dcs/Transport%20ON.JPG

Clock:

http://www.aslgroup.com/dcs/Clock%20ON.JPG

DAC:

http://www.aslgroup.com/dcs/DAC%20ON.JPG

Yummy!

The above is also my dream digital setup. It would have to be sitting on acrylic Quadraspire Reference supports though.

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.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Pah! Who wants that unnatural sounding up-sampling bollocks?

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Me. :)

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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Originally Posted by Steve Toy

I've heard it and with that you can probably forget your black discs. ;)

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Dream on, sunshine! :p

However, DCS make some fantastic CD players.

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Steve Toy

(apart from those 200g virgin pressings that you've got that seem to defy any theoretical notion of dynamic range limitations from vinyl...)

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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...

These are pics I took of the Scarlatti on demonstration at the Audio Works last summer:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9...2007133qz2.jpg
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5...2007135zj9.jpg

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.

Don't let me bring my credit card on Saturday mate. :eek:

The DCS equipment looks so solid, matches the solid sound.

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.