dCS 4 piece $40000 stack with SACD player

This ad is for a full stack of 4 dCS components. It includes the Elgar Plus DAC, Purcell upsampler, Verona clock and the Verdi SACD player. The system comes with all stock cabling. I have A/B tested 88 different digital front ends, 89 if you count this dCS stack. These particular four components combined,was actually a pleasant surprise because most of the time when I'm testing digital front ends there is just something lacking in regards to musicality but not with this dCS front end. It is one of the more musical digital front ends that I've heard and the real bonus is that it excels running DAC direct versus putting a preamp in the audio chain. Retail was almost $40000 USD and there are many great reviews out on this dCS stack but Stereophile has the most accurate description of the sound quality that this digital front end produces. If you are looking for a reference digital front end that can compete with some of the top analogue front ends, this dCS set up is perfect for you!!! Just a quick note, the SACD has super low hours because the previous owner did not use CD or SACD. Includes remote but not original boxes. Each piece will be bubble wrapped and double boxed. Includes the following 4 components; $12000 USD dCS Elgar plus DAC; The Elgar Plus improves on the Elgar's performance and operation by adding DSD decoding via FireWire or SDIF-2 interfaces and by allowing it to slave to a word clock or act as a master clock. The Elgar Plus has both digital-domain balance and volume controls, so you can plug it directly into your power amplifier. Stereophile quote; The Purcell/Elgar Plus is a very sophisticated combo for connoisseurs with wallets large enough to pay for the most sophisticated filtering. Journalists get to play at it; but you, you Masters of the Universe, get to actually go out and buy this stuff! Live the dream for us! And don't forget to write... In the end, for me, the Purcell/Elgar Plus is an upsampling digital reference of the first order. $5000 USD dCS Purcell; For its part, dCS states that the Purcell "upsampling reveals information that is present in the master source, but which is not audible when the CD is played back normally. Upsampling cannot increase the amount of information in a signal, and the exact mechanism behind the perceived sonic improvements is currently not clear. We are continuing our research into this subject." Stereophile quote; The Purcell/Elgar Plus is a very sophisticated combo for connoisseurs with wallets large enough to pay for the most sophisticated filtering. Journalists get to play at it; but you, you Masters of the Universe, get to actually go out and buy this stuff! Live the dream for us! And don't forget to write... In the end, for me, the Purcell/Elgar Plus is an upsampling digital reference of the first order. $7000 USD dCS Verona clock; Stereophile statement " Was it the Verona or was it the dither? It took me a very long time to settle on an answer to this question. Switching the dither on or off with the music playing made no noticeable difference. But whenever I decided that such instantaneous comparisons proved I was fooling myself, long-term listening with the dither active proved consistently more satisfying. On balance, I thought that the dithered Verona added what, for want of a better word, I can describe only as "magnificence." Conclusion As a limited-production component manufactured in a country with a strong currency, the $6995 Verona is inevitably expensive in the US. Value for money? Fuggedaboudit! The Verona's applicability for use in non–dCS-based systems is almost zero, given that the Verdi is one of only two SACD/CD transports of which I am aware that has a word-clock input (the other is the new Esoteric X-01). But if you have a dCS Verdi-Elgar SACD player—and I know that, at $33,985, that's not going to be too many people—the Verona will take it a small but nonetheless important step forward in sound quality to achieve the best sound quality I have yet heard, not only from SACD but from CD as well. $11000 USD dCS Verdi SACD transport; Stereophile review "The two-channel SACD breaks out big time, removing the harmonic and, especially, the dynamic constraints while laying out all of Nigel Godrich's subtle background electronic tricks and the subtlest of electronic reverberate cues. Depth, transient attack, bass solidity, and overall transparency take an enormous leap forward on SACD, and the dCS system delivered it all with an effortlessness that tempted me to crank up the volume to ridiculous levels. And I did, but without suffering the usual digital tooth- and headaches." There are 6 cables that come with this dCS set up. Here is the hook up; https://manualsdump.com/en/manuals/dcs-1.0x-dcs_verona_master_clock/122127/11 The only other cables you will need are your own output cables to your amplifiers and your digital input cables to your source. It is actually very simple if you follow the procedure one cable at a time. Delivery in Canada or USA is set at $200. The price is an all in price except delivery fees. No taxes or duty. We only except Paypal "FRIEND" or direct wire transfer into our business account. Bob 519-619-9924