Love what the Vivaldi clock has done to my system. Tonight everything seemed off…compressed flat sound stage, dull veiled sound, less precise instrument placement, etc. Started checking everything and couldn’t figure out what was wrong and I was getting frustrated…wondered if it was a power issu…

Lee, if they have similar performance, look very similar aside from styling details but one costs more than double the other, why would anybody except a chump pay the extra? Or putting it another way, would dCS have a viable business plan offering effectively the same product for half the price? Ha…

Thanks Andrew. Helpful. But not to my bank account. :wink:

@all2ofme (c) ! But, seriously, I would add, having met Ben in person, twice, and shared some good times and some laughs… (d) Ben is a good chap who is loco about clocking! ; ) I may soon be there with him…

I would also add that @T38.45 brings up a good question that I have also struggled with, given Rossini Apex (and no clock) as a starting point, either: (a) Add Rossini clock to Rossini DAC (b) Add Vivaldi clock to Rossini DAC Or (c) Sell Rossini Apex and buy Vivaldi APEX DAC and Vivaldi Upsample…

My path was a rather simple one. After nearly 25 years with a Purcell/Delius I finally upgraded to a Rossini and decided rapidly to upgrade it to an Apex. Having read that so many got substantial improvement from adding the clock, I began to look for a Rossini Clock. I found someone selling a m…

[image] PAR: Have a look at the interiors of the two. Quite a difference ( @Ermos posted some images a few years ago though I cannot find them in the archives but expect they are there somewhere). Here they are: [image] Rossini DAC innards dCS Products The innards …

Thanks for the link Harry. Yes, Rossini and Vivaldi clock have very different works.

Slightly up from your link is a pic of the innards of the Rossini Clock: [image] Rossini DAC innards dCS Products In case you wonder how the Rossini Clock looks from the inside, here is the only pic I could find: [Rossini-clock-inside]

Having had A, i went to C. With the dac first, then followed by the upsampler a while later, and finally the clock. This certainly for me was the best way to do things, SQ was also the way to go doing it this way, as the dac obviously brings the biggest upgrade. Plus i found the upsampler also was…

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harryb (Harry A Brandt) December 29, 2024, 4:19am 38

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