The dCS Verèse costs $305,000 without speakers or amplifier. Cambridge-based dCS is a family-owned British company, founded in 1987 by Oxford University graduate Mike Story and a team of electronics engineers. The company started by developing signal conversion systems for radar installations before moving on to launch the world’s first hi-res 24-bit audio DACs for pro and consumer use in the 1990s.
Today, dCS concentrates on developing the latest high-end digital audio technology. Having always been innovators of digital audio—specifically the digital-to-analog conversion systems crucial to digital sound—dCS is considered by many to be the very best in its field. Everything the company makes is developed from the ground up and built using proprietary dCS technologies.
There’s nothing “off the shelf” about any of its products because dCS is 100% driven by its R&D. Although many of dCS’s products are high-end, even the company’s more affordable product line—the Lina Network DAC, Master Clock and Headphone Amplifier—is packed with dCS innovations, including an ingenious way to fold a main circuit board 90 degrees around the unit’s sides to enable all the sophisticated circuitry to squeeze inside a compact chassis without making any compromises. The dCS Verèse digital audio streaming system will have its first public demonstration this weekend .
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