Hard though it is to believe, it is now twenty years since the first units for the digital correction of speakers in rooms began to appear. I recall that when I first wrote about the ...

It’s an easy decision to call dCS’ new Vivaldi the most ambitious digital playback system ever created. This four-box player (transport, DAC, upsampler, clock) is a no-holds barred upgrade of dCS’ Scarlatti, which itself had ...

For several years I’ve used the dCS Scarlatti CD/SACD playback system. Then dCS announced the release of the somewhat higher-priced and more technologically advanced Vivaldi system. After recently hearing its debut at Joshua Cohn’s Ears ...

For several years, data conversion systems, known to most audiophiles as dCS, has been working on a new statement digital playback system. This past Friday it debuted the four-box Vivaldi at Ears Nova, an elegant ...

9/4/2012, Minneapolis MN - Bel Canto Design, Ltd., manufacturers of analog and digital source components, amplifiers and accessories, know that a huge number of audiophiles – tech-savvy and traditionalists – use computers as a primary ...

I beg your indulgence for a moment, as I step into the Way-Back Machine, and emerge on a quiet afternoon in the spring of 1986. I am working at a high-end audio store, and on ...

The XJ is the final jewel in the crown of Jaguar’s fully redesigned stable of motorcars. Stately, definitive, and powerful, its interior bedecked with wood accents and the sweet bouquet of leather the XJ is ...

I’ve known for some time that clock-timing accuracy is essential to good-sounding digital-audio reproduction. But I didn’t realize just how important it was until I heard the Esoteric G-0Rb Rubidium Master Clock Generator. That’s right—the ...

As great a product as the iPod is—and it is truly spectacular—it has an Achilles’ heel for discriminating listeners: its digital-to-analog converter and analog output stage. The iPod’s D/A converter and output amplifier are by ...