Actually, Jonathan was always very responsive on emails.
It was the support email that I usually got no response from but that was because I didn't furnish my invoice when I registered.
Hopefully that's sorted now.
I have the EMM Labs XDS1 and the Playback MPS5 and I'd say neither were particularly noisy. I've had both in the same room. In fact the MPS5 (now in my study) is barely 3 feet away from me and spinning away without calling attention to itself. I think my CD Pro2 based Ayon sounds noisier.
I do agree the top of the line Esoteric transports used in the K01 (and I think the newest multi box dCS) are a marvel but there's something right about Playback and EMM's DSD DAC implementation that I like and the previous implementations on Esoteric's Cirrus and other off the shelf DAC chips just didn't gel with me. I think the K01's AKM DAC seems to be much better but I can't bring myself to buy a 25k player that uses off the shelf DAC chip.
It was the support email that I usually got no response from but that was because I didn't furnish my invoice when I registered.
Hopefully that's sorted now.
I have the EMM Labs XDS1 and the Playback MPS5 and I'd say neither were particularly noisy. I've had both in the same room. In fact the MPS5 (now in my study) is barely 3 feet away from me and spinning away without calling attention to itself. I think my CD Pro2 based Ayon sounds noisier.
I do agree the top of the line Esoteric transports used in the K01 (and I think the newest multi box dCS) are a marvel but there's something right about Playback and EMM's DSD DAC implementation that I like and the previous implementations on Esoteric's Cirrus and other off the shelf DAC chips just didn't gel with me. I think the K01's AKM DAC seems to be much better but I can't bring myself to buy a 25k player that uses off the shelf DAC chip.