EXPIRED DCS Bridge Streamer - Silver

[Eagleeyes]

Outrageously good streamer from DCS. I have had streamers from Lumin, Antipodes, HIFI  ROSE, Esoteric and Innous etc and apart from the Lumin X1 on its fibre optic connection I have not heard better in my system, it just works and has a strong internet -network connection too.

 

DCS make obscenely good and expensive gear and this streamer is an outright bargain and if my plan to try something worth a lot more fails then I will hunt another one of these, they are that good.

 

Pics in rack so not the best but its a pretty simple box and no major marks etc on it, couple of smudges picked up by camera after wiping top down but its 95 percent excellent. Original box and AUS purchased unit.

ROON certified -Roon ready

 

About the Network Bridge

The dCS Network Bridge acts as an elegantly simple but hugely powerful interface between your digital music and your DAC.

 

The hardware platform in Network Bridge enables you to stream high resolution music files from network attached storage, connected USB drives, online streaming services as well as Apple devices via Apple Airplay, outputting bit perfect audio direct to your DAC.

 

The native Network Bridge app provides full control of the streaming capabilities as well as the input, output and clock settings. The Network Bridge app is based on the same network streaming and app technology used in our flagship Vivaldi series – providing an intuitive interface for you to quickly and easily organise and manage your entire digital music library.

 

Designed for simplicity, a single, powerful FPGA platform is the heart of the unit and the Network Bridge is Roon™ready, also supporting streaming services such as TIDAL™, Qobuz™, Deezer™ and Spotify™.

 

Featuring clean, bit-perfect operation, the Network Bridge currently plays files sampled at rates up to 24-bit, 384kS/s, supporting all major lossless codecs, plus DSD/64 or DSD/128 in native or DoP formats.

 

Compatibility with legacy dCS DACs is assured by an integer down-sampling feature. This downsampling feature converts high res data (for example DXD or DSD) to 24 bit PCM at either 176.4/192kS/s or 88.2/96kS/s – bringing the data within a range supported by your DAC.

 

Network Bridge also supports the simple yet highly effective dCS ‘auto clocking’ architecture as used in Vivaldi and Rossini, which minimises jitter and improves sound quality significantly.

 

The Network Bridge firmware can be updated easily from the internet using the control section of the app. This allows dCS to add new features or improve the performance of the product during its production lifetime.

 

Designed and made in Great Britain to the highest standards, Network Bridge’s elegant chassis uses aerospace-grade machined aluminium to reduce sound-degrading mechanical vibration and magnetic effects. Multi-stage power regulation is employed to isolate the sensitive clock circuitry from digital processing noise.