Only sound I hear is the disc starting up to spin. My drawer is smooth as butter. If it sounds like a truck going across a railroad track something happened in shipping. I've owned 2 Esoterics and never heard them sound like that opening. The more I listen to the K-03 the more I apprecate how good it reproduces music regardless of format it superb as the mastering of the disc allow, just like vinyl garbage in and garbage out.
Esoteric k-03 sacd players
I am thinking of buying a used Esoteric k-03 player...I see a few posts on here complaining about noisy transports on some of these players....how much of a problem is this? Also, would I be likely to be able to get Esoteric to fix this kind of a problem if the unit was bought used? Obviously the warranty would not apply in that case but I have heard of some manufacturers refusing to touch their eqpt if not from the orig. owner.