Exciting Announcement: Introducing the dCS Varèse Music System

Music Lovers is thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking innovation in high-end audio: the dCS Varèse Music System. This revolutionary system redefines state-of-the-art audio playback, offering a transformative listening experience that is both exhilarating and profoundly immersive.

Unveiling a New Era in Audio Excellence

The dCS Varèse Music System embodies over 35 years of dCS’s dedication to achieving audio perfection. Known for their pioneering advancements in digital audio technology, dCS has consistently delivered equipment that captures every detail and emotion in music. The Varèse system represents the pinnacle of their efforts, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in audio performance.

Key Components and Innovations

The Varèse Music System consists of five main components designed to deliver unmatched audio fidelity:

1. Core: The central hub of the system, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

2. 2 Mono DACs: Dedicated DACs for each audio channel, enhancing stereo imaging and precision.

• Mono DACs: These components mark a radical advancement in dCS’s DAC technology. Each audio channel is powered by its own dedicated DAC, featuring an all-new version of the renowned dCS Ring DAC hardware. This Mono DAC configuration is coupled with dCS Tomix, a patented clocking protocol that ensures perfect synchronicity between the Mono DACs. This innovation minimizes jitter and noise, significantly lowering the noise floor and delivering ultra-low distortion. The result is an unprecedented level of realism, allowing listeners to experience new depths of detail and emotion in their music.

3. User Interface: An intuitive and user-friendly interface for effortless control and navigation.

• User Interface: The Varèse User Interface boasts a full-color touch screen that displays album art, track data, play queues, and other settings, all at a glance. Customizable views and adjustable text sizes enhance usability, while optional dark mode provides a comfortable viewing experience. It connects via Bluetooth LE to the Varèse Remote Control and supports integration with UPnP control point renderers and servers for seamless connectivity.

4. Master Clock: Precision clocking to synchronize components and reduce jitter.

• Master Clock: Utilizes the new ACTUS and dCS Tomix protocols to achieve the lowest jitter, drift, and most accurate clocking signal ever seen in a dCS product. This component provides the benefits of a dedicated dCS master clock, including improved imaging, focus, and presence. It ensures absolute timing accuracy and synchronicity across all audio sample rates, drawing on decades of dCS experience in developing professional and high-end audio master clocks.

5. Dedicated Remote Control: For convenient operation from anywhere in the room.

• Remote Control: Features an ergonomic design with backlit touch icons and focused hotkeys for intuitive operation. The remote’s volume dial and function buttons (play, skip, pause, mute) allow for effortless control, all while remaining immersed in your music. It charges via USB-C and connects via Bluetooth, combining convenience with style. The remote’s capacitive touch glass screen, illuminated icons, and CNC-machined aluminum casework underscore its premium design.

Additionally, the system includes the new dCS Mosaic ACTUS app, providing an enhanced interface for managing playback and discovering music. A dedicated CD/SACD Transport will be available starting in 2025 to complement the system.

Cutting-Edge Technologies

The Varèse system integrates several advanced technologies, including:

- dCS Tomix: This patented clocking technology enables the Varèse Mono DACs to operate in perfect synchronicity. It ensures that each audio sample's left and right channels are converted at precisely the right moment, while maintaining the highest level of clocking accuracy within each DAC. This technology addresses the limitations of existing protocols and achieves new levels of precision and coherence in audio playback.

- ACTUS: Audio Controlled & Timing Unified System - A bespoke interface designed to carry audio, control, and timing signals between Varèse components through a single cable running from the Core to each unit. This innovation simplifies setup and enhances performance by reducing the complexity of multi-component audio systems, making the Varèse Music System both high-performance and user-friendly.

- Differential Ring DAC: An evolution of the dCS Ring DAC™, the Differential Ring DAC introduces a new design with twice as many current sources and a differential mode of operation. These changes result in increased linearity, reduced noise floor, and an overall improvement in sound quality. This DAC architecture represents the most significant change to dCS’s DAC technology in a generation, delivering even greater presence, immediacy, and intensity in the music.

These advancements contribute to a substantial improvement in performance, including a broader soundstage, richer textures, and enhanced clarity. The Varèse Music System aims to connect listeners more deeply with their music, offering a compelling, visceral experience that brings them closer to the artists they love.

An Ambitious Project

David Steven, Managing Director of dCS, states,

“Varèse is the most challenging project we’ve ever undertaken. We set out to redefine high-end audio while creating a completely new user experience. This system is a testament to our relentless pursuit of audio excellence.”

Andy McHarg, dCS Technical Director, adds,

“After over 30 years with dCS, I can confidently say that Varèse is our most complex and ambitious project. I am incredibly proud of the team and the groundbreaking system we have created.”

Get Ready to Experience Varèse

Systems will be manufactured in limited quantities, with shipping commencing late 2024.

Stay tuned for in-depth looks at the system’s design and features over the coming months. We can’t wait for you to experience the future of audio with the dCS Varèse.

Contact us today for more information on the dCS Varèse.