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DCS Puccini and/or Soulution 740 players? Anyone??

All,

I'm curious if anyone has listened to these players.

From other threads I've seen that DCS doesn't have a big following in the US probably partly because of the price. Can anyone describe the sound? I saw somewhere that people found it to be better than the Emm Labs equipment and that DCS has become more musical than the older DCS equipment.

The other player I'm very curious about is the new Soulution 740 player. A relatively new high-end brand from Switzerland. Apparently the player had its introduction at the CES 2008. Has anyone listened to it and does it is so much better than the other player considering its price?

Thanks for your feedback.
maxx1973
clavil
254 posts
 
and what about the Soulution 740?
mtkhl567
157 posts
 
Cleop, thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I agree with you on the sound of the Meridian vs EMM/DCS. The PD/DZ pre run very well on normal IC too, I had my PD connected with the Evolution Acoustics SE interconnects before the 50 Ohm BNC Zeel cable and the sound quality can hardly be told apart, if at all. I haven't heard the DZ pre and power amps connected through SE interconnects (my old Valhalla's) for a long time, but I remember that the sound was still extremely impressive. Have fun with the 808.21i as it is a great component! I'm tinkering with the 24/192 high-rez downloads into my PD next, that should be fun.
cleop
4 posts
 
Where do you get your 24/192 downloads? And what software do you use to play them? I'd like to try that too. I have a Mac computer, but iTunes doesn't seem to support anything more than 16 bit 48KHz files (some people swear it supports 24/96, but Apple couldn't confirm this, and the software itself indicates otherwise).
mtkhl567
157 posts
 
There are several websites out there:

referencerecordings.com
acousense.com
ultraaudio.com
2L.musiconline.no

just to name few, high-rez downloadable content is rapidly growing. I tried using Mac too, didn't work. You're better off with a asio4all driver on an XP based computer for now.

Good luck!
bar81
791 posts
 
high-rez downloadable content is rapidly growing

Let's not get crazy; it's improving, but at a glacial pace. There is still a paucity of popular music in high res and it is often unclear if the tracks are simply upsampled or properly remastered into the higher resolution.
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