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dCS Puccini Clock

I had yesterday the oportunity to hear for first time the Puccini clock.

I must admit that I was a little sceptical. The system consisted of:

Howland preamp HP-200 SE
Howland amp RADIA SE
Avalon Indra
Transparent power cleaner / station ?
I can't tell which cables

Well the effect is quite amazing and you can easily recognize it in a blind hearing. If I have to describe it I would say, you become aware of the hall / the space in which the recording has been done. The difference is very noticeable when you switch the clock off, suddenly the music sounds dryer, shorter and the space all around the whole music desapears.

I heard:
Luiz Bonfa plays and sing Bossa Nova (Verve)
Bruckner 4th by Jaap van Zweden (bad SACD & interpretation)
Bruckner 4th by Günter Wand (the last recording)
Ports of Call by Eiji Oue (Ref. Rec. bravo Prof. Johnson you are a great sound engeneer!)

One of these days I will take it home and have a test on my system ... and will make some blind hearing with my wife ;-)

I will report then about the experience.
clavil
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mert
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I would like to make a few comments about dCS u clock.( mine has just arrived)
Stereovox xv2 works fine and there is no need to invest on expensive BNC cables.( for this specific duty, the quality of the BNC cable will not yield an extraordinary benefit)
Since the unit consumes only 6 watts, the choice of pcord is not a critical decision.
The difference? without clock? with clock?
I don't know. Will find out soon and post it :)
clavil OP
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which power chords are you using with the Puccini, which would be top?

thanks
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mert
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Clavil

You have asked same question under different topic. I was going to answer it but I was fallen into sleep last night.

I do have actually puccini and its dedicated clock.
I have various powercords in my collection: Elrod EPS 2 sig, Shunyata Anaconda helix 15-20 amp, Acrolink Mexcel pc-7100, Purist Anniversary 15-20 amp, lastly, I bought a Kubala Sosna Emotion. ( I had Nordost Valhalla but sold)
I have additional DIY and original cords but not using them as prime cords: Modified Audience au 24 with oyaide p 46 male and female plugs, Oyaide Tunami with Furutech 25-35-50 (gold, rhodium, and the most expensive one with carbon fiber or kevlar)

With Puccini I have used Elrod, Kubala Sosna Emotion and liked. I have now Kubala Sosna and decided to keep it with Puccini.
I am 100 percent sure Elrod Eps 2 sig will work perfectly under any condition.(tube or solid state pre in chain, solid state power amp in the end of the chain)
If you can tell more about your setup, I may give you more accurate advise?
elgar
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Hello,

i´ve just discovered that Kharma have had a firwire cable (Kharma Enigma firwire) in their program, but they did not continue. Perhaps only a few DCS owners are not enough.
Does someone Know this cable and can tell me how it works in a old DCS stack?

Kind regards

Joe
gtfour45
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Hi Joe,

If you are looking to ugrade your dCS Firewire link I can recommend the Esoteric 8N-6p-6pi cable (although branded Esoteric it's made by Acrolink in Japan).

It may be hard to get although I think the Cable Company now lists it.

In my Verdi Encore and Delius stack it made a big difference over the standard dCS cable. I would say that the stack was delivering only 70% of its best performance before the Esoteric cable was added.
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