dCS Vivaldi APEX DAC

Product Details

The Vivaldi APEX DAC from Data Conversion Systems (dCS) represents the state of the art in digital audio playback. As part of dCS’s flagship Vivaldi digital system, this DAC (≈$46.5k) is built with the proprietary dCS Ring DAC™ APEX hardware and the latest digital processing platform, achieving unrivaled fidelity and measured performance. It’s designed to decode virtually any high-resolution format and can be paired with the Vivaldi upsampler, master clock, and transport for a complete reference system. In use, the Vivaldi renders music with “utterly natural and beautifully complete” sound – it “unravels even the most complex recordings with ease”, revealing every nuance and the subtlest of details. This four-chassis digital stack is considered a reference standard, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in digital playback.