Source: Press Release, Last Accessed: 2024/10/03

dCS Varese re-imagines the digital playback for a new era, utilizing a suite of new innovations to bring listeners an even more immersive and revealing musical experience. Varese is the culmination of a series of projects that began several years ago. In addition to researching and developing updates to existing products, the company had spent a great deal of time exploring how they could further improve the sonic and measured performance of their DACs. They also begun investigating whether they could develop a unified system to transport audio, timing and control signals and improve clocking arrangements between audio components.
The Varese Music System comprises five components: a Core; a User Interface, an optional Master Clock, and two Mono DACs – one for each audio channel. It also includes a dedicated Varese Remote Control and a new app, dCS Mosaic ACTUS. A dedicated CD/SACD Transport will also be available from 2025.
The new series utilizes a suite of new technologies. These include dCS Tomix, a patented new clocking technology: ACTUS, a bespoke interface that carries audio, control and timing signals between components; and the Differential Ring DAC, a new version of the dCS Ring DAC that represents the biggest change to their DAC architecture in a generation, the company says.
Varese also features several mechanical and electronic innovations, from new circuit design to enhanced power supplies. The benefits of these advancements are wide-ranging as they are further reduce jitter, whilst increasing linearity, lower noise floor and eliminate crosstalk, once again setting a new standard for measured performance in the process, dCS states.
“[Varese] is the most challenging undertaking of our careers in audio,” said dCS Managing Director David Steven. “We set out to redesign state-of-the-art whilst at the same time creating an entirely new and immersive user experience. We knew we had to embrace a singular vision, and be brave and relentless in our pursuit of this, to bring listeners a system that is measurably and demonstrably special and exceeds the capabilities of our current body of work.” Andy McHarg, Technical Director at dCS, added: “I’ve been at dCS for over 30 years, working across every major project for audio professionals and consumers. I think it’s fair to say that Varese is the most complicated and challenging project I’ve been involved in, but I can’t begin to tell you how proud I am of the team and the system they have created.”

For more information: https://dcsaudio.com/

More News...