According to the '25 year dCS Story' brochure, dCS Ring DAC technology (in chip form) was licensed to Arcam for their Alpha 9 CD player and their FMJ CD23.
The '25 year dCS Story' brochure continues:
"The world’s hi-fi press was beguiled, saying the new Arcam Ring DAC players had a unusually smooth, open, clean and even sound.
Reflecting the different standards that dCS works to, Andy McHarg remembers it with less enthusiasm. “The Ring DAC on a chip was a bit too noisy to be a dCS product,” he says sniffily."
Martin
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