INDUSTRY UPDATE

US: NEW YORK, NY

Jim Austin

Due to an editing error, the dCS Rossini SACD/CD Transport ($23,500) was left off our list of Recommended Components in our October issue. Here is the entry in full, which has now been added to the online version of Recommended Components in Class A+:

DCS ROSSINI TRANSPORT SACD/CD TRANSPORT: $23,500

Unlike the earlier Rossini Player, which only played CDs, the Rossini Transport uses a new mechanism from Denon that plays both SACDs and CDs. The Transport outputs audio data on twin AES/EBU links, to allow it to send native DSD data and CD data upsampled to DXD, DSD, or double DSD (these both encrypted) to a dCS DAC. JA used the Transport with a Rossini DAC and was mightily impressed by what he heard. He consistently preferred the sound of SACDs played on the Transport compared with the same data sent to the Rossini DAC over his network, feeling that the low frequencies sounded more robust. “Once these words have been laid out on the pages of this issue,” JA concluded, “I’ll have to return [the Rossini Transport] to dCS. It breaks