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MSRP: $5000
Price: $500 - SOLD!!!
Conservatively rated 9/10, this thing is in absolute mint condition! Version 1.00 with Dolby Digital and THX certification. Buyer to pay for shipping and $20 packaging fee. Selling below Audiogon BlueBook value of $520.
The DC-1 as a preamp (exerpt from AVRev Review)
As a stand-alone preamp, the DC-1 performs exceptionally. Whether you want to play your stereo recordings with or without DSP environmental enhancements, you'll appreciate the overall sound quality of the DC-1.
The track "Into the Dark" from Jesse Cook's 20-bit Mastered CD, Gravity (Narada Equinox), demonstrated a transparent and delicate quality with finely detailed articulation in his fast guitar runs. The saxophone on the title track from Ernie Watts's (XRCD) "The Long Road Home", was smooth, smoky and sexy without any mid-range emphasis that can cause a honking-like tone. The ethereal, "Skin" from Madonna's Ray of Light (Maverick), delivers a blend of synthesizer textures and multiple layers of guitars and vocals. The spaciousness and airy quality between instruments was very impressive.
I liked the Panorama effect on several of the two-channel recordings. The image exceeded the boundaries of the front left and right speakers. Solo instruments were locked to the center channel with just a hint of ambience in the rear channels, increasing depth without any artificiality. (The rear channel volume can be adjusted for this effect.) The Concert Hall effect on "In My Time of Dying" from Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, transformed this rather dull and aged 1975 recording into an exciting, open "live" performance. Guitars sounded rich and fat, while vocals had a great, saucy "reverb," a Lexicon Trademark from its pro audio roots.
Unfortunately, I was physically unable to test the Logic 7 mode with seven speakers. Logic 7, much like Dolby Pro Logic, creates a five-channel signal from as few as a two-channel source. Logic 7, unlike Pro Logic reproduces full bandwidth (20 Hz to 20 kHz) signal as well as discrete rear channels, unlike Pro Logic's mono rears which roll off at 7 kHz. Logic 7 basically is a surround format that digitally `rides the gain' over the 4 to 8 (or more) speakers, in order to give your less than state-of-the-art surround sources a performance boost over Pro Logic. The DC-1 also uses the Logic 7 type algorithms in its music surround formats. Depending on your software collection, you may find that the Logic 7 feature is the closer for you on a DC-1.
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