Home Digital Drive

Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Digital Drive ]
[ Alert Moderator ]

Re: VRS Revelation Audio Playback system

The whole of the VRS is more than the sum of the parts. I have talked with Vincent extensively and have contributed to some aspects of the design of the VRS, based on my computer and audio knowledge.

Every critical part of the machine is modded to an extent, including software etc. There is a lot of secret sauce in the VRS.

You could build your own computer and go on a path of discovery yourself and get good results. I could of done that in a second myself. I have built a number of music servers myself in the past. The sound was not competitive with my high-end rig at all, even as a digital transport to my Audio Note DAC.

I bought the VRS in order to benefit from Vincents knowledge and exploration in this area, beyond what I could build myself. And that is the reason a lot of people buy high-end equipment, even those who can populate a breadboard and build their own equipment.

Because the Wintel platform is so flexible and modular, there is a tendency to think of all machines as being equal. We don't think of amplifiers that way. I could look inside an excellent sounding high-end amp and say that the design is repeatable, and that I will build one myself. But I probably couldn't completely replicate the sound. How many people could do that, or would instead decide to buy the amp itself?




This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
  McShane Design  

Follow Ups Full Thread
Follow Ups
You can not post to an archived thread.

[ Top Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]