New Esoteric K-03XD


Just bought this SACD Player a month ago. 
It took me a while to get into the hidden menu. 
It sounded great with CD’s, amazing actually. 
I tried it with 2 SACD’s I had lying around. 
One was a Sony Demo, the other a SACD from a friend. 
They sounded great, but not as good as my good CD’s. 
I bought a few more, all remastered old recordings. 
I was disappointed. 
There was a review on The Absolute Sound about a similar Esoteric. 
The reviewer said when it was set to “default” it wasn’t overwhelming. 
He went into the hidden menu and changed some settings. 
Today, I started experimenting. 
I'm glad I did. 
I'm listening to “Trinity Sessons” on CD, by the Cowboy Junkies. 
I've never heard it sound this good !

The reason for the post is, have anyone else changed those settings, and which ones. 

stevizzy

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Great to hear!

Hopefully you won't have any issues as my players DAC module bit the dust just on the warranty expiration date, 

Been waiting 3 months to get repair done and still waiting,

Regards, Bob

Hi Jafant and 68pete,

Sorry I'm getting back to answer so late.

The software went south so after trying different repairs they replaced my player with the newer SE version. 

Was quite the wait but was kept in the loop the whole time. The wait was worth it as the SE version with maybe 20 hours or so is quite the improvement!

My best,

Bob