Scarlatti CD/SACD Transport

by dCS
in Electronics

Scarlatti Transport uses the TEAC Esoteric VRDS NeoTM mechanism which provides a brushless motor with heavy flywheel for stable disc rotation and super rigid construction. All signal processing and electronics in the transport is dCS.

Scarlatti Transport features a IEEE 1394 Firewire link which outputs dCS -encrypted DSD (1 bit data at the rate of 2.822MS/s) to a dCS DAC from CD or SACD. Scarlatti Transport upsamples CD data to DSD and transmits the data over the 1394 interface. SACDs are played in their native DSD format, again over the IEEE 1394 interface. Native CD data is available from 7 PCM outputs (2x AES/EBU and 4x SPDIF, 1x SDIF-2), as is down-sampled SACD data.

Scarlatti Transport is intended to be used with the matching Scarlatti DAC or with any suitable industry standard DAC. The unit may be run in Master mode or by using the DAC as the system clock. Performance will be enhanced further by adding the Scarlatti Master Clock to the system.

All of the Scarlatti products benefit from dCS' ‘soft' approach to programmable logic which allows new software to be loaded from a dCS update CD to add new features and adapt to changes in digital formats.