The dCS Puccini CD/SACD Player.

The best one box CD in world?

Probably......We've yet to hear anything which peforms like the Puccini does.

Listening to CD's on the Puccini is like hearing your favourite piece of music for the first time.

Sublime build, beautiful looks this has it all.

Tonally this has to be has uncoloured as you get can, it really does present you with a huge open window on the music, you just want to keep on listening. You pull out a disc you haven't listened to in years and you just sit there, captivated with a huge smile on your face......that's the Puccini does.

The Puccini can drive a power amplifier directly without the need for a pre-amp, has 2 digital inputs (both of which can upsample to DSD) and there is also an external dCS Puccini U-Clock which improves the perfornance further and also gives you a USB interface to allow your PC/Mac based music access to the dCS Ring DAC.

Winner of countless awards worldwide the Puccini really is something special.

From dCS...........

Puccini is a revelation - a high end system in one box - combining the aesthetics of the Paganini with all of our upsampling, DAC, clocking and CD/SACD player technology in a single, easy to set up unit which delivers unbeatable performance.

Built to the highest specifications, Puccini features a sleek solid aluminium fascia, high grade aluminium casing, all metal buttons and a smooth transport mechanism. CD or SACD, Puccini will extract every last bit of detail from your discs, bringing a reality to your music that you never heard before.

In common with our Scarlatti and Paganini ranges, Puccini uses our proprietary DSD signal processing and patented dCS Ring DAC, which oversamples all incoming data to 5 bits at 2.822 or 3.07 MS/s. Puccini uses an enhanced version of our dCS Ring DAC, improved through increased processing power, faster FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), improved power supplies and a quieter electrical environment.

When playing a CD, Puccini can also upsample conventional PCM encoded CDs to DSD sample rates and offers the choice between PCM or DSD playback.
Puccini is the fastest, most precise sounding player you will hear and it also features a digital volume control (allowing you to connect directly to a power amplifier). as well as two digital inputs allowing other digital sources in your system to benefit from the onboard dCS Ring DAC. A precision VCXO clock generator is housed in Puccini, but it can also be synchronised to an external master clock to further reduce jitter and improve performance.
Puccini benefits from our ‘soft' approach to programmable logic, which allows new software to be loaded from a dCS update disc to add new features and adapt to changes in digital formats.

The Puccini range now features a patent pending (GB0817141.5) dCS Puccini U-Clock which is separate grade 1 system clock to further reduce jitter and improve performance. Puccini U-Clock also features a USB to SPDIF converter, which enables Puccini owners to present sound files from a PC or Mac to the legendary dCS Ring DAC inside the Puccini.

• Puccini upsamples Red Book CDs to DSD and plays SACDs in their native format.
• Puccini uses the latest version of our patented dCS Ring DAC, which has several detail improvements over earlier versions.
• The dCS Ring DAC is a discrete balanced design which does not use any off-the-shelf DAC chips commonly found in other manufacturers' products.
• Our proprietary 5 bit oversampling topology produces exceptional linearity across the dynamic range.
• All dCS products use a sophisticated multi-mode phase locked loop (PLL), which significantly reduces clock jitter.
• Faster, 100% accurate Digital Signal Processors (within the bounds of their resolution) give improved filters, revealing yet more fine detail.
• Higher capacity FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) give more logic capacity and increase the scope for additional features and enhancements.
• Improved power supplies give lower running temperature and increased tolerance to AC supply variations.
• Our 'soft' approach to programmable logic allows dCS products to adapt to changes in digital formats and add new features by loading new software from a CD.
• High grade aluminium chassis and laminated acoustic damping panels reduce magnetic effects and vibration.
• Puccini features a low-power LCD display that makes the user interface easier to read, keeps the power requirements down and minimises electrical noise.