Magico compared to Tannoy

@gammaman, i'm very jealous of your setup!  I saw the Dead 9 times from 1973-78, and amazingly of those, the Dead have released 8 of them.  The most recent, Dave's Picks #38, was my very first concert!  The release sold out (25,000) in a matter of hours, fortunately I got one.  I have a great setup with a Hegel H360 powering Raidho XT-2's which can go nice and loud, and on good recordings, sound like I'm at the show.  A Oppo 105D is the HDCD player-- wondering if you have a HDCD player at all-- no one is making them anymore yet the Dead continue to release HDCD encoded recordings, can't understand why, maybe it's contractural.  I imagine that the sound is not quite like yours though!  The point of my post is that I have more than 100 GD releases (including the entire 73-CD Europe '72 box set) and one that you have to hear is Dave's Picks #29, San Bernadino 2/26/77.  The show is fantastic, the first set is incredible--among their very best-- and the sound is one of the best that I've heard.

@gammaman I didn't buy the Oppo 205 because they do not have the HDCD chip.  Only the 105/103 and previous do.  Surprised that you didn't know that.  Anyway-- not sure if it makes a difference.  Have you auditioned the difference between a HDCD player and a non-HDCD player?  I'm thinking that the weakest part of my setup is the Oppo-- so thinking about upgrading to an Esoteric, the K-05xd and K-07xd are going to be released later this year.  Either that or buy the new Berkeley Audio Alpha 3, which does have the HDCH decoding but I think for some crazy reason they upped the price from 5K on the Alpha 2 to 10K for the Alpha 3.  So probably one of the Esoterics.