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The 3 kings: Esoteric K01,EMM XDS1,Meridian 808.3

For anyone looking for the a top mainstream player, these seem to be the primary choices by major manufacturers that I think will be around to service them for 10+ years. So I just wanted to establish this thread as a central point to compare them or post listening impressions, especially as time goes on and used ones appear at more affordable prices.
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lightminer
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A couple of points:

1) CDP is not interesting anymore. DACs are interesting (why? see pt. 3)

2) At this level sometimes one can correctly argue 'better' but 98% of the time it is really just 'different'.

3) That said, there is some neat stuff going on in the DAC world with things like pre-ringing and 24/96 and 24/192 playback that many are saying is getting close to or becoming equal (or, gasp, better?) than vinyl.
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