An audio reviewer OVER HYPED a product! No way!
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?
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@daveyf - just because technology moves on in a newer model doesn’t mean what came before is obsolete- the older tech still beats most lower priced DACs. Also, the older tech used items still sell at a steep price, but obviously not to the level of new. If one is afraid of newer tech replacing old, they’ll never be satisfied in high-tech products like computers, digital audio…. We only have 1 choice - buy or not, accompanying with “fear of obsolescence” is an unwise pointless option |
@kennyc 'Fear of obsolescence' is something that anyone who dips their toes into the waters of digital high end audio should be very cognizant of. Particularly given the speed in which digital improves and given the price asked of products like the dCS Varese. Today's SOTA in digital reproduction can be tomorrow's boat anchor in very little time. Resulting in a major loss of value compared to other areas of the high end. I think we have all seen this circumstance before, and I can see no reason to see why it would not be specially true with the new dCS Varese DAC. Obviously if one has to have the biggest and best at any one time, and couldn't care less about obsolescence, then what you say makes some sense. It's all budget driven, but personally I would never consider a piece like this new DAC at the money asked, regardless of how much $$$ I was worth.YMMV.
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