dCS Network Bridge

摘要

The £3250 dCS Network Bridge is a pretty good example of 'do what it says on the tin' engineering. So this very plain little unit wears its heart on its sleeve - well, on its box, anyway - being all about forming the missing link between music stored on a home network and the digital input of a hi-fi system. Now it's true that there are more than a few ways of achieving what it does without spending £3250. In my current set-up I can stream music from my servers or access Internet services using everything from a simple Mac mini computer to an even simpler Raspberry Pi fitted with one of the HiFiBerry digital output cards, these connecting to DACs via either USB or conventional S/PDlF digital links. So there needs to be something special going on within this dCS unit to justify its existence -and of course that price-tag.