DCS or Chord 64

I was able to hear the Chord64 in a brief back to back comparison with an MSB Platinum. The Platinum is a great dac but the Chord was definitely smoother sounding and more musical.

I haven't heard the Chord but I do own both both an MSB Platinum and the DCS Elgar/972 upsampler combo. The DCS is better.

Just do not jump your guns so quickly! Rob Watts was the designer of Chord 64. If anyobody remembers, Watts was the president and the owner of Dpa Digital company from Wales. Dpa, small company with hanful of employees, produced some of monumental digital processors. Probably unsurpassed even by nowdays standards. If anyone had chance to hear DPA SX512 or 1024 DAC's would realise that no DCS, Wadia, Accuphase or any current model of DAC's would even come close in performance of DPA's flagship processors. Chord 64, in my opinion for the price offered far outperforms DCS! BTW i own CEC T0, DPA 1024 and i have auditioned ALL of the designs mentioned above.

ROB WATTS also produced the DPA 50S Amp and Preamp combo, both now classics and somewhat difficult to find. They were Hi-Fi World founder Noel Keywood's reference amplifier for sometime, and he appeared to be very pleased with them, based on the times in which he refered to them in some of his articles in the early issues of Hi-Fi World.