[dCS Team]

dCS has been developing digital audio products for over 30 years - first for recording professionals, and now for music lovers around the world.

Tomorrow we’re launching our latest innovation: a new product series purpose built for headphone listening.

Through meticulous development, and close collaboration with the headfi community, we’ve developed a range that is designed to meet the unique needs and demands of headphone listeners - one that we believe will transform headphone playback.

Further information will be released on May 24 10am BST - sign up below if you’d like to learn more.

https://dcsaudio.com/signup

Watch the teaser film here

 

[ThanatosVI]

Looking forward to the reveal

 

[Somatic]

Oh snap ... hope for a smaller Bartok with more power

 

[RobertSM]

I look forward to learning more.

 

[John Massaria]

many many $$$ or affordable dcs?

 

[Derivative]

many many $$$ or affordable dcs?

I reckon they're targeting Chord's Dave or Hugo TT2. Either way can't afford it, but interested in seeing what they come up with.

 

[ThanatosVI]

many many $$$ or affordable dcs?

Depends on your Definition of affordable.

My guess Is between 7-10k which is still ultra expensive, but by far the most affordable dCS product.

 

[Andrewteee]

I reckon they're targeting Chord's Dave or Hugo TT2. Either way can't afford it, but interested in seeing what they come up with.

The Bartok is the Dave peer. The new dCS thing could be at the Hugo TT level (it's not as compact as the Hugo 2).

 

[headband]

pumped! I hope it's under a $1000?

 

[headband]

No way it's under $1000. I just saw all of those resistor ladders. I'm guessing this will be an R2R dac, but maybe incorporating some DSP? The future is good DSP in my opinion even if it's just convolutional filtering to achieve EQ. Probably just gonna be a very expensive R2R dac though.

 

[audionewbi]

Great news, I loved the crossfeed function of Bartok, but I did not like the price.

Hoping price is below $2,500.

I can see it is fully balance in and out.

 

[goldwerger]

dCS has been developing digital audio products for over 30 years - first for recording professionals, and now for music lovers around the world.

Tomorrow we’re launching our latest innovation: a new product series purpose built for headphone listening.

Through meticulous development, and close collaboration with the headfi community, we’ve developed a range that is designed to meet the unique needs and demands of headphone listeners - one that we believe will transform headphone playback.

Further information will be released on May 24 10am BST - sign up below if you’d like to learn more.

https://dcsaudio.com/signup

Watch the teaser film here

Whatever you're launching... will it be available at CanJam Chicago next month for testing?

 

[Derivative]

The Bartok is the Dave peer. The new dCS thing could be at the Hugo TT level (it's not as compact as the Hugo 2).

Yeah I guess Bartok competes with Dave + M Scaler price and performance wise.
They are clearly focusing on the headphone listening experience - I reckon the range will include a streaming option to give an AIO solution.

 

[Andrewteee]

dCS also has their own crossfeed approach called Expanse. I would expect that to be built in.

 

[ahossam]

If it going to cost me more than $500 i'm not interested.