Founded in Cambridge, England by Oxford University graduate Mike Story and a team of electronics engineers, dCS is a leading innovator in digital recording and playback for studios and homes. First recognised for developing radar systems for military jets in 1987, dCS created the world’s first 24-bit analogue-to-digital converter – based around its Ring DAC™ circuit technology – in 1989, and has since designed DACs, headphone amplifiers, audio master clocks, CD/SACD Transports and all-in-one music players, acclaimed worldwide. Its latest product is the MCD 16 Digital-to-Analogue converter, featuring 16 channels of high-performance D-to-A conversion using eight individual Ring DAC circuits to optimise audio quality from high-end home cinema systems.