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RE: PC/MAC based replacement for dcs stack

I owned a dCS stack prior to their release of the firewire and SACD upsampling. For D/A I had the two box Elgar+Purcell unit that up converted to 24/96. Transports were a dCS and a Meridian 800.

The dCS is a very nice unit. I preferred the Meridian transport to the dCS transport: it had more "rhythm" and was more coherent, albeit not a huge difference.

The modded DEQX is very nice. It's got tremendous slam and impact; it just never runs out of gas on high impact / transient passages. And it's got a very nice "liquidity" -- a quality I really seek out -- that's pretty rare. It's more like a tight tube preamp than a solid state preamp (more like my old Ref2 than my new 861v4); it's more like a dipole speaker than a sealed box speaker; it's more like a high end Koetsu cartridge than a typical high end moving coil cartridge. Hard to describe, but easy to hear.

Finally, I replaced my Meridian 800 transport with Steve's Off Ramp Turbo2 feeding a Pace Car. Even without the Pace Car the Off Ramp sounded better. Not a lot better, but better, and the amazing user interface of PC based audio over traditional CD made the switch a no brainer. I can't imagine going back.

I've not heard the Meitner gear and so can't comment on it.



Edits: 06/13/08 06/13/08
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