dCS at Munich High End 2019

In addition to showing a range of dCS electronics – including Vivaldi and Rossini – in its usual room at Atrium 4 Room F209, the company for the first time ever has a dedicated head-fi room in Hall 4 Stand N09 for visitors to hear the new Bartók for themselves.

Headphone fans will be able to connect their own digital audio players and smartphones, choose tracks from the dCS library or stream their favourite music from TIDAL™. Listening to Bartók via a range of high end headphones will be possible including models from ABYSS, Audeze, Focal, HIFIMAN and Mr.Speakers among others.

Four Bartóks will be on demonstration, to allow easy access for audition, with no appointment needed.The special dCS head-fi room is enclosed to reduce the ambient noise of the show to a minimum, and dCS staff will be on hand to demonstrate the wide functionality of this new network DAC with headphone amplifier and to advise on headphone matters.

The cost of the headphone amplifier equipped version costs £11,999, and features a custom designed Class A headphone stage that works extremely well with both high and low impedance headphones and IEM’s in balanced or unbalanced formats. Bartók also comes with a crossfeed option as standard.

Bartók supports all major music codecs including high resolution PCM and DSD, with user- selectable upsampling. Great care has been taken to minimise jitter at all stages with the dCS ‘auto clocking’ architecture. The network streaming section currently runs at up to 24-bit, 384kS/s and DSD128, supporting all major lossless codecs, plus DSD in DoP format and native DSD.

Bartók plays music through an array of industry-standard USB, AES or S/PDIF digital inputs. It streams over Ethernet from a NAS drive or online music services, and from Apple devices via Airplay. Its network interface performs full MQA decoding and rendering. With its award-winning Ring DAC digital processing engine – shared with the flagship Vivaldi DAC – it offers unparalleled performance at its price.

Summary:

dCS will have a bespoke headphone listening space at Munich High End 2019

Four Bartóks will be installed for walk-in demonstrations, with a multitude of high end headphones

Headphone fans can bring their own digital audio devices, choose tracks from the dCS library or stream from TIDAL

The cost headphone amplifier version of the dCS Bartók is £11,999

Location of the headphone listening space is at Hall 4 Stand N09; the main dCS room is at Atrium 4 Room F209

Munich High End Show details here: highendsociety.de/index.php/en/facts.html

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