Correct as far as R/B are concerned. Actually the control board in the Vivaldi Upsampler is a little bit more refined with some of the digital processing performed by DSP chips under the control of the FPGA. The DAC/output boards are as you say identical in all three products.
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I just love the Vivaldi. It’s such an iconic piece, that just showed how digital could be done for well over a decade.
I hope dCS can keep the icon going for many more years, as it should become the porsche 911 in the dac world i feel.
Cheers dunc
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Ahh, I didn’t know! And are the Control boards on all the Vivaldi components the same?
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No, I believe there are three different versions in total.
For the first series Vivaldi products there are two versions: one with DSPs and one without. The Transport I, DAC and Clock have the one without. The Upsampler and Vivaldi One have the one with.
Vivaldi Transport II came much later and actually uses the same control board as Bartók/Rossini.
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given the fact that many here in Europe don’t have too much space in their rooms (read somewhere that an average living room has roughly 25qm) I would love to see a max. 2-box solution vs 4-box system…
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We had already got that, the vivaldi one and vivaldi clock.
Andrew, thank you for this comment.
With the LINA, is the digital processing performed by DSP chips under the control of the FPGA also?
I agree, as much as I like my Vivaldi it does take up a lot of real-estate not to mention cabling and I am thinking of downsizing it. Moving to an integrated amplifier helped me realise that less can sometimes be more in a domestic setting. I am contemplating moving to a larger house though so we’ll see where I end up.
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Hi George,
No, the Lina is a much later design and uses a much more powerful FPGA that wasn’t available when Vivaldi was designed. It is a top-of-the-line Xilinx Artix 7, the same FPGA used in the Varèse! This has sufficient capacity to perform all the necessary signal processing itself.
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