dCS launches the Vivaldi Digital Playback System

dCS launches the Vivaldi Digital Playback System – a new four box digital system which represents the pinnacle of their ‘no compromise’ approach to product design and sets a new standard for the future of digital audio playback.

Comprising separate Digital to Digital Upsampler, CD/SACD Transport, DAC and Master Clock in a powerful yet elegant industrial design Vivaldi is a radical redesign and major enhancement of the dCS architecture. The result is a digital system that is more powerful, flexible and musical than anything we have ever developed.
Vivaldi achieves unrivalled measured performance by using the latest groundbreaking technology from dCS including next generation versions of the dCS Ring DAC™, Digital Processing Platform and Clocking System.

Vivaldi has been designed to play music from any source and processes all high resolution musical formats up to DXD (24 bit data at 352.8 and 384kS/s) plus DSD. The optimised DSP filters and clocking architecture ensures listeners can extract every last nuance of musical detail and feeling by tuning the system to suit personal preference.

Vivaldi DAC utilises the next generation of the state of the art dCS Ring DAC™ which combines exceptional linearity with very high speed operation enabling it to deliver true 24 bit performance even at low signal levels. The new dCS Ring DAC™ incorporates a number of important technical advances that have resulted in enhanced dynamic range, reduced jitter, improved channel separation and greatly improved musical realism.

Vivaldi Upsampler can access music from any digital source (PCM digital inputs, USB, UPnP network streaming, iPod™/iPhone™), converting the audio from its native sample rate to either high resolution DXD, DSD or standard high resolution PCM. The array of independently selectable digital inputs and filter options in Vivaldi elevates the performance of Red Book CD from CD Players or high resolution audio from digital streamers and servers to a previously unsurpassed level.

Vivaldi CD/SACD Transport has been designed to extract revelatory levels of detail from both CD and SACD. Featuring a Dual AES output that supports DSD or DXD a completely new chassis design provides separate power circuits for the digital processing and CD/SACD mechanism sections, resulting in near silent operation.

Vivaldi Master Clock features two banks of clock outputs capable of outputting different frequencies improving ease of use and minimising jitter. Used as part of the Vivaldi digital playback system it improves on an already spectacular sound and takes it into an entirely new domain. Images snap into sharper focus, the music displays a substantially greater sense of authority and power as well as, most importantly, offering noticeably higher resolution of detail.