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

I didn’t notice any changes after using the settings I liked when i first got it dialed-in to my system.  Still love it !!!

fratbob

Where did you send it for repair?

 

davetheoilguy

Esoteric does sells transport to to Vivaldi apex, I  was told that the KO 1XD  transport is not sold to vivaldi. By the Esoteric sells rep. at a show i was at in L.A. a few years back.

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