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Bartók DAC £15,750 View online review whf.cm/dCSBartok The Bartók streaming DAC is the product of a small high-end digital specialist that refuses to cut corners with engineering and build. When it comes to digital-to-analogue conversion, dCS sits at the top table. It has quite some pedigree, pioneering high-resolution conversion in the late-1990s and implementing DSD capabilities in its products early on. From the beginning, dCS has refused to do things the easy way; rather than buy offthe-shelf DAC chips from the likes of Burr Brown, it developed its own converter technology called the Ring DAC. This uses a combination of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), an innovative circuit topology and sophisticated in-house software to deliver number-crunching capabilities the firm feels are beyond those available from bought-in alternatives. The Bartók also…

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