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hi-fi+ is a magazine that is serious about hi-fi. Our articles are intended to help you get the best from your system, rather than simply telling you to buy another one. Our reviews only cover product that we think is worthwhile. You can read more about that by looking at our reviews policy, but lets just say that our attitude to equipment is rather different, and we hope, much more informative. We haven't forgotten that hi-fi is supposed to be fun!
Editorial: High-Performance Audio's Impressive Modernization
Pushing the price envelope within a highly devaluating currency climate.
Editorial By Alan Sircom
The hi-fi world is occasionally rocked. Sometimes by performance, by a revolutionary change in technology, and sometimes by the demise of a designer, a founder or a
manufacturer. This time, however, what seems to have sent out the shock-waves is a
price. Cambridge-based digital expert dCS is no stranger to 'upper-echelon' pricing; the
company's existing four-box Vivaldi APEX comes in at an already 'spendy' £124,250 without cables. However, the
company's latest project, Varèse, confidently eclipses even the Vivaldi APEX. The five-box design (Core unit, Master Clock, Mono DACs, and User Interface) cost a cool £217,500, with a CD/SACD transport to follow next year. Granted its unique ACTUS connection system lowers the cost of inter-device cabling (wiring up a full four-box Vivaldi APEX with something like Nordost Odin Gold adds substantially to the price of admission). But the fact remains we are in uncharted price territory for digital
audio. Perhaps this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Brands like CH Precision, MSB, and Wadax have been pushing the price envelope for some time.
---> High-Performance Audio's Impressive Modernization.
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