Stacking Components

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To Pete’s point, over the years we have considerably raised the bar regarding the EMI performance of our casework. The third generation products (Vivaldi/Rossini/Bartók) are very much better shielded than the Elgar and Paganini generations, and the milled chassis of the fourth generation products starting with Lina take another major step forward. The Varèse chassis are literally vaults from an EMI perspective. So for each generation any negative sound quality effects due to stacking diminish.

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Its an old image - before dCS peer pressure persuaded me that the clock on bottom is the way to go. Here’s the updated version - but I’m thinking of upgrading my power amps to Chord Ultima 2’s which would need to be housed on amp stands due to their size.

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Hi @MattC

I totally get where you’re coming from and why you’re concerned but the dCS kit doesn’t have “that” issue where you need to be concerned for the transformers in one unit affecting the units above / below.

For what it’s worth I have a Rossini Clock here in my support kit stack and I have it positioned below the DAC … in my case that’s solely so I can use a set of short 8” clock interconnects up to the DAC wordclock inputs and they don’t end up crossing over (and hence getting in the way of accessing) the signal inputs and it is just a lot “neater” - it isn’t for any sound quality reasons.

Cheers

Phil