dCS Varese Music System
Description
Varèse is our most ambitious undertaking to date – the culmination of a series of intensive projects that began when we asked ourselves: how do we create an even more profound and immersive experience for music listeners of the future?
Our engineering team have developed new processes, products and protocols, once again stretching the limits of audio engineering to create our best-performing, most revealing and most intuitive music system to date.
CORE
The Core is the heart of the Varèse Music System. This technological powerhouse supports most hi-res formats and major streaming services. It handles a multitude of operations, from audio input to the conversion, noise shaping and filtering stages carried out before signals are output to the Varèse Mono DACs.
The first dCS product of its kind, it utilises our novel ACTUS protocol to radically simplify setup whilst taking sonic and measured performance to new heights.
Varese Core System - includes Core, UI, Remote Control and ACTUS Cable
MONO DACs
The Varèse Mono DACs encapsulate our relentless focus on absolute performance. Driven by a desire to further enhance the sonic and technical capabilities of our DACs, we embarked on a radical reinterpretation of our DAC architecture and technologies.
We created a dedicated DAC for each audio channel, along with an all-new version of our renowned dCS Ring DAC™ hardware. We also devised a patented clocking protocol, dCS Tomix, to ensure perfect synchronicity between the Mono DACs.
These innovations have enabled us to take our signature ultra-low distortion performance to a new level whilst significantly lowering noise floor, bringing listeners an even more compelling and visceral sonic experience.
Discover new depths of detail and emotion in your music, and prepare to fall in love with your favourite recordings all over again, with the sublime capabilities of these extraordinary components.
Varese Mono DAC Pair - includes 2 ACTUS Cables
MASTER CLOCK
The Varèse Master Clock brings all the benefits of a dedicated dCS master clock – including improved imaging, focus and presence – to the Varèse Music System. It ensures absolute timing accuracy and synchronicity for optimal performance at all audio sample rates.
The Master Clock utilises our new ACTUS and dCS Tomix protocols to deliver unrivalled jitter performance, providing our lowest jitter, lowest drift and most accurate clocking signal yet.
Its design is informed by our decades of experience developing audio master clocks for both professional and home use.
Varese Master Clock - includes 1 ACTUS Cables
Specifications
Dimensions
All dimensions given as height x width x depth. Allow additional 60mm depth for ACTUS cable connectors plus 120mm for ACTUS cable bend radius. Allow space for airflow around the unit.
- User Interface: 131mm x 444mm x 450mm (includes Bluetooth aerial depth)
- Master Clock: 131mm x 444mm x 437mm
- Left Mono DAC: 131mm x 444mm x 437mm
- Right Mono DAC: 131mm x 444mm x 437mm
- Core: 244mm x 444mm x 438mm
Weight
- User Interface: 14.6kg
- Master Clock: 15.7kg
- Left Mono DAC: 18.7kg
- Right Mono DAC: 18.7kg
- Core: 33.1kg
- 2x pair unbalanced outputs on 4x RCA connectors. Output impedance: 52Ω.
- Maximum load: 600Ω (10k-100kΩ is recommended).
- Output levels: 0.2V, 0.6V, 2V, 6V rms for a full-scale input, set in the menu.
- USB Type A connector for mass storage devices (navigated using Mosaic ACTUS).
- USB 2.0 interface on B-type connector, accepts 24-bit 44.1 – 384kS/s PCM, DSD/64 & DSD128 in DoP format. - 3x AES/EBU inputs on 3-pin female XLR connectors, accepts 24-bit 44.1 – 192kS/s PCM & DSD/64 in DoP format. AES1+2 act as a Dual AES pair, accepts 24-bit 88.2 – 384kS/s PCM, DSD/64 & DSD/128 in DoP format.