DCSPuccini and uClockusedDCS Puccini and uClockEXTRAORDINARY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AT A SERIOUS BARGAIN PRICE - WE ARE SELLING FOR THE OWNER SO NO TRADES This dCS PUCCINI/U-CLOCK combo comes from a client who is downsizing. It has been in place s...8000.00

DCS Puccini and uClock

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Ships fromNew York, NY, 10028
Ships toUnited States
Package dimensions24.0" × 20.0" × 10.0" (35.0 lbs.)
24.0" × 20.0" × 8.0" (27.0 lbs.)
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Original accessoriesRemote Control, Box, Manual
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EXTRAORDINARY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AT A SERIOUS BARGAIN PRICE - WE ARE SELLING FOR THE OWNER SO NO TRADES

This dCS PUCCINI/U-CLOCK combo comes from a client who is downsizing. It has been in place since we delivered it, and is in excellent cosmetic condition - only one small mar that we can see on the Clock. It will ship in the original cartons and includes the remote. The price has been set for a quick sale - 1/3 of the original retail. Sound quality is as new.
Rave reviews world-wide - here is an example:
"The sound was immensely appealing, particularly the gorgeous, liquid, and glare-free midrange, with tremendous depth, clarity, and transparency. There was also an intangible sense of sonic coherence that manifested itself as a kind of “musical rightness.” The Puccini/U-Clock combination was “plug ’n’ play” with regard to the USB interface. I connected a generic USB cable from my fan-less, drive-less PC server to the U-Clock, selected the appropriate input on the Puccini, and the system played back my music files at a variety of sampling rates. I listened to files at 44.1kHz, 88.2kHz, and 96kHz from the server, as well as CDs and SACDs played in the Puccini’s transport.
I found myself consistently and deeply engaged with the music. The Puccini/U-Clock was distinguished by a pristine clarity of timbre along with a crystalline-like transparency of soundstage. Instruments and voices were vivid and alive, yet the presentation was never forward. Background vocals were revelatory in that I could clearly hear the timbres of individual voices and how they blended into each other. I was also struck by the sheer realism of Neil Young’s guitar on some 96kHz/24-bit tracks from Harvest sourced from the music server; it had more “guitarness” and less of a mechanical sound than I’ve heard from this track before. I got the impression of greater density of information, but not in an analytical way.
The Puccini/U-Clock’s central triumph was the ability to sound super-pristine and precise, yet simultaneously warm and involving. There’s one area in which the Puccini/U-Clock significantly distances itself from all competition, and that is in the reproduction of very fine high-frequency transient detail. I was floored by the Puccini’s resolution of micro-detail—think brushes on cymbals, shakers, the zils on a tambourine, gently struck triangles, and güiro. The lower the level and the more transient the nature of the signal, the greater the extent to which the Puccini outshone other digital I’ve heard. Information that was simply blurred by other digital was resolved with pristine and vivid clarity by the Puccini.
The dCS Puccini/U-Clock pair is an extremely sophisticated piece of engineering. Rather than working within the limitations of off-the-shelf technology, dCS has developed a number of innovative and advanced technologies to extract the maximum performance from digital media. That effort has paid off in the listening room—the Puccini/U-Clock delivers an enormously appealing and involving musical presentation that is in many ways competitive with the state of the art, and in some aspects establishes a reference-quality level of performance...but if I had to boil it down to a single idea, it would be that the Puccini/U-Clock simply presents more musical information to the listener without calling attention to the fact that it’s presenting more information. I can’t overstate how much I enjoyed music through the Puccini/U-Clock; it was absolutely enthralling on CD, SACD, and high-resolution sources. This is a digital front-end I could live with for the rest of my life." Robert Harley, TAS
more info: https://www.dcsltd.co.uk/products/puccini-player/
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