dCS Puccini Clock

Elgar,

A friend of mine, Elgar Plus/Verdi LaScala/Verona owner, told me that the Puccini is a sideways move.

Since you seem to lack the Verona clock, getting the U-Clock makes a lot of sense - it will serve double duty as your system clock (which will brang a substantial improvement by itself) and USB receiver.

That´s what i hope for,

i was looking for the Verona half a year ago, but there was not a single unit on the market only complete stacks. After reading a very positive review of Puccini and the benefits of the Puccini U-Clock i thought it may be better than my old DCS Equipement and even looking great now.
I asked my dealer, if the Puccini may be a step foreward, but he told me that only the Scarlatti is a real big improvement and the Paganini which looks as good as the Puccini does, in his opinion, stands only a little obove the old references.
The Scarlatti is too expensive for me, the Puccini U-Clock seems only to fit to the integrated Player, there is no Verona on marked, i remembered my old Sony Esprit Pre , which has gotten a grat upgrade, changing almost all parts within a seperate power unit and never since i´m in need to buy something else. Should it be possible to even make such expensive stuff better this way?
It makes a difference for me to think about that, with my 1000USD TAE-86B in mind, than to think about a 30000USD stuff, making an improvement with changing some caps an building in some WBT NextGen parts.
But why not take Google to have a look?
This way took me to the "Upgrade Company", which seems to be the wright place if thinking about that. The answer to my question regarding his Upgrade is, that the new clock instead of his modification is just peanuts, cause even the DCS equipement is full of cheap parts, and if you are changing these against the best parts available, that is a real great step forewardand the question:"Do you know that DCSes have zero shielding !?"
Uuuups that is not the kind of answer i have estimated. My thoughts are going in the direction "forget it".Now i opened my three machines and saw that he is wright with the shielding, but the parts build into the boards look so highly integrated that there are only a few caps and maybe the powerunit giving him a chance to improve.
Okay perhaps one of you has allready tried that.
Looking at the homepage of DCS for about 100 times at least i got the idea to few the tech data sheet of the U-Clock. Okayokay, why it has 4 clock outputs! ? Could there be a chance..........Oh and the talking about the assynchronous whatever USB , i just don´t understand anything, only that this seems to be the highway to Highend-heaven via PC.
Okay to do both, upgrading and this new USB-Clock seems to be the wright way for me.

Kind regards

Joe

Elgar,

Upgrading is a tricky route - pls remember that the final outcome is always unknown, and it is always very difficoult (if possible at all) to recover the money spent on upgrades.

Hello Elberoth2,
all my experiance till today, are very positive. The two Vintage Sony Esprits which are modified, have nothing to do with the basic items and are sounding outstanding good now. But there have been hundreds of parts changed to better ones, cause they are older and therefore still build in a traditional way with no ICs at all. I would never sell the Sonys, cause they are my Hifi dreams when i was young. The same is with Wadia and DCS gear. Looking for their digital equipement from the beginning i never heard any bad sounding product of them.
From my point of view, one never can fail buying any Wadia or DCS stuff.
There may be strong competitors, but all of them only copy the lot of ideas coming from Wadia in the past, or in younger times also from DCS.
They are going the own way and don´t look at the others.
For that reason, they are at least obove all others for me, even their might be products out in the world that sound better, but till now i don´t know one !

Kind regards

Joe

Elgar, if you have the stack without firewire, that means that you aren't upsampling all the way to DSD? I would think Pagannini would be a considerable upgrade just by adding the DSD functionality.