Hmmm… The dCS webpage is counting down to 3pm LOCAL time for me, and I’m in the USA. Great to know if it’s really 3pm UK time!! Thanks!
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I just looked and the countdown will be 15 hours from 23:00. So 14:00 (2 pm) UTC.Corrrection: 15:00 ( 3 pm) as it was 15:59:59
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It would be kinda funny if it ends up being Bartok and an update to the Mosaic app… 
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Hmmm. According to the countdown timer on the website, it will be 15:00 here in California. I have attached a screenshot showing my current time and the countdown. My guess is that someone coded the countdown clock to pick up the browser’s local time zone and pegged the end time to 15:00 in that zone. I have assumed they meant 15:00 GMT. (Yeah, I know I’m supposed to say UTC or whatever. Whatever!)
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Yup, the dcsaudio.com Web code was my source;
// Set the date we're counting down to
var countDownDate = new Date("Feb 07, 2023 15:00:00").getTime();
(Yes, I was scrounging for potential clues 
)
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Wait so no timezone conversion??? LAME! 
It is 10AM ET, 7AM PT.
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No joy for the Kiwis 
The sadness is coming to Hong Kong shortly!
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It has to be Vivaldi replacement, doesn’t it? The Vivaldi was released ~10+ years ago. Its successor was delayed by a pandemic.
Companies have to release new products and drive demand, even if 80-90% of the feature set could be rolled out in the same box. Disgruntled customers can be appeased with offers/discounts.
My guess: Vivaldi replacement, apex board standard in new box, new version of DAC/processing/mapping, call it V3 if you like, not just a software upgrade.
Let’s see! Now I’m curious! : )
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Or better, some of those $10,000 fuses I heard work wonders in your system! (!)
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Not $10,000, but I’d highly recommend you give Synergistic Research’s Purple fuses a listen for $200
Worst case they do nothing positive and you get a full refund from your dealer when you return it.
Given magazine lead times, that’s always going to be a possibility and has happened with any number of other products they’ve reviewed.
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I think worst case is you get a power surge and your equipment gets fried.
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My findings about power cable and ethernet cables, switches…
I have on loan a Lumin T2 since months (dCS Apex upgrade still not there).
The Lumin really benefits more from cabling, better switching etc. than dCS- even the useage of a power distribution shines through it.
These effects are there for the dCS as well- but not with that impact! Maybe dCS benefits SQ wise with this +20%, a Lumin +40-50%!
My findings: if your gear is not top notch, you’ll benefit more from cables, switches etc.
But apart from that, one thing is incredible: on Lumin roon really sounds shitty vs native streaming with upnp. That effect is really night-and-day and it underpins my thinkig about roon’s SQ.
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Why would you get a power surge from a fuse from a well-regarded company that has been making power products for decades?
Unless you install an improperly rated fuse, your scenario will not occur.
Looks like we’re both back on
Wow lots of posts! regardless whether the announcement is Bartok Apex only or not, I guess we’ve learned the dCS community really wants a next gen flagship!
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I just got the Zinio message to tell me that the issue is now ready for download.
I think he meant that your fancy fuse will not work.
A fancy fuse is not a crazy thing, but I imagine maybe this silly idea below is already implemented in fuses:
If you have two conductors, one with very low resistance and one with higher resistance and a tuned burn point, you can grap the latter around the former and have a design that is very low resistance in the normal state but at some point burns because the higher resistance wire burns and destroys the lower resistance one.
I don’t know if all fuses are designed that way but my point is it’s not necessarily trivial.
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