The Vivaldi One APEX is a powerful network music player and CD/SACD Transport. It offers the same core technologies as the globally renowned dCS Vivaldi series, including the latest-generation dCS Ring DAC, and the dCS Digital Processing Platform, as well as their proprietary clocking system.

It supports all major lossless codecs, including MQA, and is compatible with a wide range of streaming services and music management platforms, including Roon, TIDAL, Qobuz, Deezer, Internet Radio and Spotify. It also supports streaming via Apple AirPlay, TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect.

For silver disc enthusiasts, its Esoteric VMK3 VRDS-Neo CD/SACD mechanism works in tandem with dCS hardware and software to extract revelatory levels of detail from standard and Super Audio CDs. An array of digital inputs, plus multi-stage DXD oversampling with optional DSD/64 or DSD/128 upsampling, and user-selectable DSP and DSD filters, offer unrivalled flexibility.

The system’s performance is driven by flexible firmware, which can be easily updated to deliver new product features and enhancements. An aerospace-grade aluminium chassis reduces mechanical vibration and magnetic effects for enhanced audio performance, while features such as multi-stage power regulation, twin mains transformers, and separate power supplies for digital and analogue sections ensure maximum consistency and reliability.

Including original box, manual and the beautiful remote control. Newprice: 92.000 euro (pricelist is available), now for 39.500 euro.

Review Hifi+ by Chris Thomas:

“… Part of the story

The dCS Vivaldi One APEX will no doubt become an iconic part of the dCS story as the years pass. It can imprint its musical ways into the psyche of anyone who is lucky enough to get hold of one. It is unquestionably a technical masterpiece. Build quality, functionality, user-configuration, you name it. But, it’s really the musical rewards that it delivers which make it stand out from any other single box device I have heard in the digital world and is second only to the full-blown Vivaldi system itself.

Getting all those components into one-box couldn’t have been easy but this is a machine that was conceived and built to serve the music and not the other way round. This it does, ensuring that every listening session is memorable and can bring new discoveries and revelations. We all need music in our lives, perhaps now more than ever in a volatile world and the relatively few of us who get to own this wonderful machine should consider themselves very fortunate.”