Metronome DSC Streamer/DAC
$25,000
Twenty-five grand is a steep but by no means unheard of price for a streaming DAC/preamplifier. In the case of the Metronome DSC, you get your money’s worth. Not only is the product built to the highest of high-end standards, with an aluminum chassis to reduce RF interference and a generously sized touchscreen interface, its sound is in some ways revolutionary. Thanks in large part to a volume-control technology called Leedh, the DSC is a DAC/pre with a purity and non-digital nature you thought you’d never hear. The DAC and streaming modules are fully up to the quality of the linestage section, too, which makes for incredibly engaging and gratifying listening. Of course, you could use the DSC purely as a DAC, setting its volume control to fixed, and running it into an outboard linestage, but that would bypass its raison díÍtre. Plug this unit directly into a power amp to see what it can really do.
Tags: AWARDS DAC NETWORK AUDIO STREAMING
By Alan Taffel
I can thank my parents for introducing me to both good music and good sound at an early age. Their extensive classical music collection, played through an enviable system, continually filled our house. When I was two, my parents gave me one of those all-in-one changers, which I played to death.
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