Our Secret

The fact that dCS has remained at the forefront of the digital audio world is testament to the skill and commitment of everyone who has ever been involved with dCS: customers and employees alike.

We are passionate about the electronics we produce and we know this is a passion shared by our enthusiastic owners. These owners always ask what our secret is and the truth is that the amazing performance of our products is down to a combination of our unique technology and our drive for excellence.

Unique Technology

Since our inception dCS has designed and produced the most accurate digital signal processing equipment in the world. Which chip set do we use to do this....? The answer is none.

Our products use either a discrete or software configurable approach to digital signal processing. While most audiophile DACs are based on standard DAC chips from one of approximately six manufacturers, our patented dCS Ring DAC circuit uses around 40 chips, none of which are DAC chips. Our digital processing circuitry is based around Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chips and a microcontroller system, all of which runs code developed and maintained by dCS. Our PCM interface and Phase Locked Loop (PLL) circuitry are essentially discrete. This means our hardware is completely controlled and reconfigurable by software - making it the softest hardware on the market.

We have progressively developed this design over the last 21 years and it is one of the key concepts that has allowed dCS to drive the high sample rate revolution. The current version is still at the cutting edge of digital audio, delivering unmatched sonic performance and getting closer to the original analogue signal than any other product.

Our latest product, the patent pending (GB0817141.5) Scarlatti Upsampler pushes the boundaries of what is possible with digital audio even further and is testament to our unqiue approach to digital audio.

Passion for Excellence

Performance matters to us and we are passionate about meeting our own uncompromisingly high standards.

At dCS we do not settle for good enough and over the last two decades we have focused on perfecting the design, engineering and manufacture of the best performing digital audio components in the world. We have some of the smartest minds in the audio business and by putting performance first and focusing on what we do best we have remained in front of the competition.

If we cannot build a product that is best in its class then we will not give it the dCS name.