Our Heritage

Founded in Cambridge, UK, by a group of expert electronic engineers, the company originally designed and manufactured high performance analogue-to-digital (ADCs) and digital-to-analogue (DACs) converters for major telecommunication companies and military agencies, whose major requirement was technology that delivered state-of-the-art precision, linearity and reliability.

Our success in this field meant that dCS quickly became known for the performance of our converters and so, recognising in the early 1990s that this technology had a key role in music recording and playback, we decided to concentrate on developing products for the digital recording industry. While our focus had changed, our commitment to producing systems of unrivalled accuracy had not and, consequently, our products were (and still are) used by some of the world’s most successful recording studios and engineers around the world.

As a result of this work dCS began to employ some of the smartest and most creative people in the business and the company evolved into producing digital hi-fi systems which allowed music lovers around the world to enjoy stunning sound of unrivalled quality in their own home.

This focus on R&D also resulted in a range of proprietary dCS technologies of which the most significant is the legendary dCS Ring DAC™. Our products continue to set new standards of performance in terms of both objective test measurements and subjective listening.

dCS world firsts include:

• World's first 24 bit Audio A/D converter
• World's first 24/96 A/D converter
• World's first 24/192 A/D and D/A
• World's first 24/192 D/D converter
• World's first commercial PCM to DSD Format Converter