Legendary dCS Scarlatti CD/SACD Transport - One Of The Best Ever Made

For sale is a dCS Scarlatti CD/SACD Transport, a legendary flagship revered for its staggering detail retrieval and fluid, analog-like presentation. It remains a premier standard in high-end audio and is considered one of the best CD transports ever made. In fact, it may be one of the best pieces we have ever had in the shop.

dCS gear brings the analog virtues of timbre, texture, and spatiality into the digital realm. The Scarlatti Transport was part of the modular Scarlatti system stack, which consisted of a separate transport, DAC, upsampler, and master clock. It upsamples Red Book CDs to DSD and plays SACDs in their native format. Its top-end and transient responses are as pure, clean, and natural as we have heard from any digital component, and that realism is what set the Scarlatti apart from every other CD player of its day.

Formats supported: CD, SACD, and external digital audio streams. Outputs: IEEE 1394 (FireWire), Dual AES/EBU (XLR), SPDIF (Toslink), Coax, SPDIF-2 (BNC), and BNC Word Clock Sync. Clocking: highly accurate multi-stage Phase-Locked-Loop (PLL) system.

Cosmetically, the unit is in good condition, featuring only minor scratches and blemishes visible in the pictures.

Recently serviced by Stereo Rehab. The seized disc spindle elevator was completely removed and separated, both shafts polished and sleeve nylon honed, both shafts properly oiled with synthetic oil and returned to proper operation, optical pickup sleds oiled with synthetic oil, and drawer rails oiled with synthetic oil. It is now operating as designed.

A 6ft Pangea AC-9SE power cord is included.

Retail was $32,999