The DMS family is growing, and we couldn’t be prouder! The addition of the new DMS-650 and DMS-800PV makes for fitting bookends to the DMS-700. While the DMS-800 Professional Version builds upon the remarkable DMS-700 to further immerse you into the musical experience, the DMS-650 ups the ante as our DMS entry point.
With the introduction of the DMS-650 as our entry model, you may be asking yourself why the nomenclature isn’t DMS-500 or something in keeping up with the 500 series. Well, it’s quite simply a matter of performance. While the DMS-550 used AK4493EQ DACs (an upgrade from the 4490EQ DACs used in the DMS-500), the new DMS-650 uses AK4497EQ DACs, the same as our previous flagship, the DMS-600. With that and other enhancements to the circuitry, the DMS-650 handily outperforms the previous benchmark DMS-600 and nips at the heels of the renowned DMS-700, hence the DMS-650 name. Considering only a minor price increase to the DMS-550, the DMS-650 is a sonic bargain.
The DMS-800PV is a different story. Considering the performance level of the DMS-700, improving upon it really becomes more a matter of making it sound different vs. better. Sure, we could have changed the voicing or presentation of the DMS-800PV to make it sound different, but that wouldn’t have made it better, just different. So, we took what was already phenomenal in the DMS-700 and created a musical experience that takes you even deeper. We did this by creating a dual mono version of a DMS-700, using completely separate digital and analog boards for right and left channels, each with its own AK4499EQ DAC, separate and multistage power supplies per channel, and separate DSPs per channel. All this and more allows the listener, especially a DMS-700 user, to experience something familiar yet much more expressive and layered. Sometimes, audio is best described in pictures. Imagine snorkeling in a tropical coral reef, complete with colorful fish, coral, and sun rays refracting in the clear aqua water. It’s pretty spectacular! Now, imagine plunging below the surface, scuba diving, and looking at all the very same coral reefs, fish, and sun rays. Now you are immersed in it. You are actually experiencing it. It’s even more dimensional, and you can see the textures of the fish scales and porous crevasses of the coral. It’s the same scene, yet you’ve experienced it at or just below the surface level and again at depth, literally surrounded by it. One experience is observing and looking at it, and the other is being in it, experiencing it in space. This is a pretty good analogy of the difference between the DMS-700 and the DMS-800PV. While they have the same sonic signature, the DMS-800 unfolds the music before you to immerse you in it completely with all the natural texture and expression of the actual performance, space, instrumentation, and vocals. A truer experience of musical wonder.
Now with the DMS-650, DMS-700, and DMS-800PV family range of network streaming DACs, there is surely one to fit your budget and level of audio system, all with very similar sonic characteristics that make the Cary Audio DMS platform the one to beat!
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