Can dCS products be stacked?
• Scarlatti is not designed to be stacked, although the DAC, Clock and Upsampler could be stacked by using suitable anti-vibration feet. • Paganini, Puccini and Debussy units may be stacked, but this does not give best sound quality. • Vibration-absorbing products or proper audio racking really does make a sonic difference. • Please take the advice in the manuals regarding placement away from heat sources. Noisy output from the DAC’s Balanced outputs, OK from Unbalanced outputs • This is almost always caused by an incorrect connection of the DAC’s Balanced output to the amplifier’s UNBALANCED input connected to an XLR socket, with pin 3 floating. • It is possible to connect the balanced analogue outputs to an unbalanced input, although this is bad practice. Scarlatti, Paganini, Puccini, Debussy and Elgar: connect XLR pin 2 to signal, XLR pin 3 to screen and XLR pin 3 to XLR pin 1. Do not leave pin 3 floating, as this will make the output level unstable and the signal noisy. Delius and
