i've not had the dcs Puccini in my system to compare to my Playback Designs MPS-5; so i cannot help with direct performance comparisons.
i am using the Playback Designs new USB-X box interface with my MPS-5 and have hundreds of DSD files on my server, as well as thousands of hi-rez PCM files that i'm listening to, as well as even a few 2xdsd files too. this is how digital was always going to be but never was, until right now. being able to access dsd and 2xdsd from my server seamlessly is so cool.
and with the MPS-5 it's the most reasonably priced super high level digital player as well as being the most advanced digital server dac/player.
i am using the Playback Designs new USB-X box interface with my MPS-5 and have hundreds of DSD files on my server, as well as thousands of hi-rez PCM files that i'm listening to, as well as even a few 2xdsd files too. this is how digital was always going to be but never was, until right now. being able to access dsd and 2xdsd from my server seamlessly is so cool.
and with the MPS-5 it's the most reasonably priced super high level digital player as well as being the most advanced digital server dac/player.