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There are two world clock inputs on the back panel that are compatible with an industry-standard word clock system. One more interesting feature is the Word Clock input system that is designed to integrate with dCS’s high-end Master Clock module. In short, a superior quality audio signal is going into the DAC. Therefore, aspects such as jitter are being pitched by dCS as being better controlled by the Bartok via an ethernet connection rather than USB where more correction may be required.
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Ethernet is often considered a superior transporter of ‘audio’ compared to USB because it does not deal with both the time and data aspects of that signal but rather simply the data.
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I should mention that whilst streaming seems like a catchy add-on, the use of Ethernet is canny. The Bartok is also Roon Ready which is a very attractive option for me personally.
#Crossfeed amp android#
dCS has also launched an app for iOS and Android that allows you to set up and control this feature from your smartphone or iPhone. You also have the ability to tap into any networked source of audio and stream directly to the Bartok via a set of ethernet inputs. You can connect the Bartok as a pure DAC to an amplifier of your choice that can receive dual RCA unbalanced or XLR 4-pin balanced. Pre-amp & Pure DACīeyond that, the Bartok can also act as a pre-amp by bypassing the integrated headphone amplifier with a set of balanced and unbalanced analog outputs. It has enough digital inputs to handle pretty much any transport or source you want to plug into it such as USB, SPDIF, coaxial, AES, and USB-OTG. Headphone DAC & AmpĪt the narrow end of things, it can act as a standalone integrated DAC and headphone component desktop system offering balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs. We can break these down to roughly four areas: headphone amp, preamp & DAC as well as wireless. The dCS Bartok already has a ton of features as you might expect or demand from a high-end component system in 2020. What we discuss here today could be a fraction of what it can do tomorrow. In fact, the entire OS ecosystem can be expanded, feature by feature. More than that, the device is firmware upgradeable which means quite a lot of the Bartok features are tweakable. It has one language and every page has something to inform you of what the Bartok is and does.
#Crossfeed amp manual#
Just to emphasize how huge it comes with a 54-page A4 manual and not the multi-lingual padded version either. When I first featured this a few months back in an introduction there was a huge amount of information to process. In fact, it is on the low-end of the dCS range with products such as the Rossini starting around $23000 upwards and the Vivaldi stack, which consists of 4 separate units, close to $115,000 all in. You can buy the DAC on its own for around $14500 which might tell you where the bulk of the investment is going from dCS.Īnd yet the Bartok is not the flagship of dCS’s range despite the price point. This is an integrated DAC, streamer, and headphone amplifier selling for around $17250. The dCS Bartok is, by all definitions, a truly high-end desktop component in the headphone sector of the market.