Old-school
digital
April
13, 2020
Marc,
I
love this part of your dCS Rossini 2.0 review: "I have and use
regularly a CEC TL 1 CD transport, a Timbre TT-1 DAC, and a Conrad-Johnson Premier 9 DAC.
I also have a collection of jitter-reduction devices, including a Genesis Digital Lens,
Audio Alchemy DTI Pro 32 and Meridian 518. All of this gear still delivers sound from CDs
that challenges, or betters, what I’ve heard from many of the better USB-equipped
DACs, and I still derive great joy from listening to my thousands of CDs with it."
I'm
glad you stated this, because I hear the blandness and grayness of most USB DACs, which I
feel are uninspiring, lifeless and dirty-sounding. I still use an Audiomeca Mephisto
transport, Meridian G98 transport, as well as a Genesis Digital Lens and Audio Alchemy DTI
Pro 32, with a Blue Circle BC501 OB LOC DAC. Music has life, tonal density, color
saturation, snap, verve, depth, and whatever else the recording has to offer.
Ihor
Schulz
As
audiophiles, we often believe that the state of the art is constantly pushed forward, but
sometimes it is not, and older CD-only digital gear is a good example of this. Some of
that older equipment still delivers highly involving sound from CDs, more than two decades
after it was introduced. I would argue that in our rush to file playback and streaming we
traded convenience for musical realism. While I would definitely choose the dCS Rossini
2.0 system over the vintage separates I mention in my review, I don't have to. I can
listen to, and admire, both, and that's just what I'm going to continue to do. -Marc
Mickelson
Add
April
1, 2020
Marc,
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Bob
Gadwood
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-Marc Mickelson
