Opinions on TacT RCS Room Correction System

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The Tact is an outstanding unit. Contact jonathan@goldmanaudio.com He is the most knowledgable Tact dealer I know of. If you have a high quaility system with full range speakers it is really a no-brainer. I love mine.

This genre of compnent poses an interesting dilemma for those using hi res formats such as DVD-A or SACD, or analog. One must subject these signals to a round of A/D and D/A conversion (there is no digital interconnect standard for SACD or DVD/A formats).

I wonder what the effect of this is on the sound?

I agree with Ghostrider. I was thinking that, for products that are available now or have been announced, dCS's Verdi transport and Grieg upsampler/phono ADC would allow things to be kept in the digital domain as much as possible. But for this to work (Verdi -> Grieg -> Tact), the Grieg would have to convert DSD to 24/96. I emailed dCS and they said this conversion is not in the works because of fears (recording industry?) of allowing low-res copies to be created from high resolution formats... The promise is there but it seems like it's still a little ways off.

How about these scenarios?
1) dCS gets into room correction. DSD can travel down a dCS chain - Verdi->Grieg->RCS->DAC.
2) More manufacturers bite and provide DSD (firewire?) interfaces. Tact can follow with a DSD update.

If the DSD interface is bogged down, I'd like to see Tact come out with an SACD transport even if the interface is proprietary, and updated their RCS.

Many TacT users feel that the benefits of room correction outweigh the compromise of digitizing your analog sources. And many (myself included) continue to use an analog pre-amp, which gives you the option of bypassing the TacT with your analog or hi-res digital sources.

TacT has just announced a new model of RCS with 24/192 AD and DA, among other enhancements.