For the past three years I have been a very satisfied owner of a DCS Puccini and Puccini u clock and the system has been upgraded in other areas, the most recent being replacing the YG Carmels with Kipod Signature passives and grounding the negative speaker terminals of the Vitus SIA 025 amp with two Entreq Silver Minimus and Apollo earth cables.Both highly successful upgrades.
Selling the Carmels proved something of a challenge so I traded them in along with the Puccini u clock for an ex demo USB equipped DCS Scarlatti Master clock which I installed a few hours ago.I had heard reliable reports that upgrading from a u clock to a Pagannini clock was a good move so when the opportunity arose to get the Scarlatti clock I decided to give it a go.
A successful upgrade? You bet! A really great move with a substantial improvement in the sound quality. Greater presence and body, vocals even clearer, better delineation of the different instruments and voices in the sound stage with improved depth, guitar leading edges more natural sounding and the tempo of the music sounds so much more true.
Only played a few SACDS and CDs so far so looking forward to playing many more and a more varied repertoire of different musical genres.
What is so impressive is how the Puccini has responded to the challenge of a Scarlatti clock. With results like this it is no wonder that the upgrade bug is so powerful.It's going to be difficult to resist the urge to replace the Puccini with Scarlatti DAC and Transport but that will have to wait for a while and I am currently very happy with the current combo.
So in conclusion I can very strongly recommend other Puccini users to try a DCS clock upgrade. I am not really in to digital downloads but I am certainly going to give it another try now the Scarlatti clock is in the system. I am sure that the benefits set out above with CD/SACD will equally be apparent with downloads but more of that anon.
Selling the Carmels proved something of a challenge so I traded them in along with the Puccini u clock for an ex demo USB equipped DCS Scarlatti Master clock which I installed a few hours ago.I had heard reliable reports that upgrading from a u clock to a Pagannini clock was a good move so when the opportunity arose to get the Scarlatti clock I decided to give it a go.
A successful upgrade? You bet! A really great move with a substantial improvement in the sound quality. Greater presence and body, vocals even clearer, better delineation of the different instruments and voices in the sound stage with improved depth, guitar leading edges more natural sounding and the tempo of the music sounds so much more true.
Only played a few SACDS and CDs so far so looking forward to playing many more and a more varied repertoire of different musical genres.
What is so impressive is how the Puccini has responded to the challenge of a Scarlatti clock. With results like this it is no wonder that the upgrade bug is so powerful.It's going to be difficult to resist the urge to replace the Puccini with Scarlatti DAC and Transport but that will have to wait for a while and I am currently very happy with the current combo.
So in conclusion I can very strongly recommend other Puccini users to try a DCS clock upgrade. I am not really in to digital downloads but I am certainly going to give it another try now the Scarlatti clock is in the system. I am sure that the benefits set out above with CD/SACD will equally be apparent with downloads but more of that anon.