Article: dCS 972/Elgar Combination Plays CDs at 24-bit, 192 kHz in the Canorus Room at the Stereophile Hi Fi 98 Show!

LOS ANGELES, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- With 24-bit, 96 kHz high-resolution audio on DVD and Direct Stream Digital(R) from Sony/Philips on Super Audio CDs, the quality of audio reproduction is finally advancing to a new plateau. The audible benefits of these new formats are clearly superior to the current 16-bit, 44.1 kHz Red Book CD standard. dCS has been one of the strongest supporters of higher sampling rates with the introduction of the world's first Digital-to-Analog Converter capable of 24-bit, 96 kHz sampling in July of 1993.

In June 1996, dCS announced the dCS Elgar, the company's first audiophile product, based on its proprietary Ring DAC(R) technology used in ...

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