dCS products age like a fine wine, getting better over the years as the dCS team adds a flurry of new capabilities to keep their products fresh and current.  Most of these updates are accomplished with a firmware update building on a flexible architecture. This week dCS announced the release of a software update that provides MQA compatibility to many of their current products specifically the: dCS Rossini, Vivaldi One, Vivaldi DAC, and Network Bridge. We have been having too much fun over at PTA with the dCS Network Bridge, and we encourage you to check out what we’re hearing in the first issue of The Occasional Part-Time Audiophile Magazine. Last week I had the opportunity to hear the near final dCS firmware that enabled MQA support on a dCS Rosinni at Definitive Audio in Seattle.  Ken Forsythe of MQA was giving us the latest on MQA’s world domination. Particularly interesting were some of the facts Forsythe shared. Currently all four major labels (Sony, Universal, Warner, Merlin) have signed up to support MQA and offer both their back catalog and new content in MQA. Forsythe went on to say: “While we are two years old in the market, we have [...]


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