Esound E5 CD Player


Has anyone heard the Esound E5 CD player? Interested in hearing opinions on this well reviewed unit.
jholmberg

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The New Esound CD-E5 Signature is better sounding, better looking and offers a new photo preamp board and dsp circuitry, now made with highest quality selected batch of the VAM 1202 philips mechanism, unlike the model made 1 year ago (like the unit user Stereo had owned). I was told by the distributor that there has only been 2 units of out 2000+ signatures sold to date that had a issue and that was due to carrier mishandling.

All $2K players dont sound the same, All $5k players dont sound the same, so on and so forth. One shouldnt be shopping and labeling performance of a new CD players MSRP value, as there is a ton of overpriced and overhyped units on the market, and this is due to alot of different reasons. Just because something costs more, doesn't necessarily mean it will sound better.
How short is your output stage on your TDA1541A DIY DAC? this could be the reason why you like it over the CS4390 chip inside the E5, because the E5 stock analog output stage is chalk full of parts and the DIY DAC could have considerably less (and better sounding parts in the signal path), thus more of everything.

I perfered the TDA1547 (1-bit) over the TDA1541 with the same output stage designs, but that was years ago and alot of things have changed since.