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Our First Impressions of dCS MCD16
My initial take was an interesting one. The content was an Eric Clapton concert, which I’d heard bits of plenty of times, including the room we had the MCD in. I could tell we were on another planet in terms of detail and the...
We don't send out reviews. Longtime clients know why. Too many of them read like the invoice came first. So our rule has been simple: skip the homework, come sit, trust your own ears. This one's different, and the difference...
Sean wrote about what Graceland is and how it came to be. The room named for a moment of grace, a client's question that changed the plan, the evolution from Nautilus to Octave to Döhmann to where it stands today....
March 18, 1996. The 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. Somebody introduced me to Josh Clayton-Felt that night. I walked in not knowing the name. I walked out chasing everything he'd ever made. Small stage. Him and a guitar for stretches of...
The Next Level of Home Theater Is Here. Scott Explains Why. There are moments in a home theater that stop you. The kind where the technology disappears and you're just there -- in the story, in the room, in it....
Vienna 2026: Notes from the Floor
Day two Updates: Back in the dCS Room I went back on day two. This time with Emron and Ken. The MCD 16 was running the same 15.8.8 immersive system — same room, same source, same thirty-two channels. Nothing had...
Most showrooms show you what they've decided to sell you. Burbank — our Projector Shootout Lab — was built for a different purpose entirely: to answer the questions you're actually asking. Scott Wallace · Definitive Sales since 2001 Two...
Eight Ring DACs. Sixteen Channels. One Platform.
For nearly four decades, dCS has done one thing with singular obsession: convert digital audio to real music more accurately than anyone else. Now they're doing it sixteen channels at a time. A New Category. An Inevitable One. dCS doesn't...
Hello Darkness, Your Old Friend
Remember when people used to just sit and listen to albums? It was only you, the soft glow of your stereo, and the way it made you feel. No chimes, no notifications, no algorithms with opinions about what you should...