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Esoteric K-03/Plinius CD-101
Audio_madness, I used to own both plinius cd-101 and esoteric k-03. With your set-up, as others mentioend, you have to upgrade ICs, they not up to the level of the rest of your gear, without it you will not be able to hear full potential of k-03 o... 
Esoteric K-01
MIke60, and Matjet, it is great that yu like you k-01. I have k-03 and it is a great player.In my system and for my ears it bested x01-d2 and wadia s7i. Becaue my integrated has only RCA as diect conect to amplifier and I use only XLR cables, I ca... 
Fusion Audio Romance series cables
I would like to add that Eric started making speaker cables. I happen to get one of the first production pairs. He rightfully decided to call them Magic. They build on the same principals as his great Romance 2 ICs. All these years I was under imp... 
Big Blue Tenor Sax
Agree on Scott Hamilton. Awesome quality and great performance. 
Rowland 625
Anybody, I am about to proceed on buying Rowland 625 instead of my gamut DI-150. Gamut is great integrated but lack some bass to expose full potential of my SF Elipsas. What pre-amplifier may be a great match for Rowland 625? The Corus and Creatio... 
Rowland 625
Guido, how far Capri pre-amp from Corus ans Creation. I am interested in 625, but will it be great with Capri as it is with Creation? Btw ,the Gamut products are very good. I have gamut DI-150 integrated. The only think I am missing is a more cont... 
Esoteric K-01
Did anybody tried the digital volume control on k-01 or k-03 running directly to the amplifier, it is intersting how does it compare with pre-ampifer in place. Thanks you. 
Gamut M250i & D3i -- superb.
Mike60, I have been with esoteric for a long time also. I had x03-se, x01d2 - great players, but they were a little too analytical and did not have the variety of filter option and USB asynchronous 24/196 input. The k-03 is a different level of so... 
Gamut M250i & D3i -- superb.
Mike60, thank you so much for the good review and comparison. I am also not affiliated with Gamut. Just by persistence of the distributor who claimed that gamut di-150 will sound much better than Plinius Hiato I had, decided to give it an audition... 
Gamut M250i & D3i -- superb.
Mike60, I also have Gamut DI-150 and it is a great integrated. I am also considering upgrating to monoblocks as I think they will be my last amplificaiton. Could you please tell more what you hear as an sonic improvements. They should not be minor... 
Gabriel Gold vs Marigo vs NBS
Bsimpson, try Fusion Audio Romance 2. They replaced in my system Gabriel Gold Rapture R ICs. 
Gabriel Gold IC's are they really this good?
Being a fan of Gabriel Gold (I have the Rapture R ICs and SCs and they were better than many I have tried for last 10 years), I decided to give a try to recently released Fusuion Audio Romance-2 ICs based on some very postivie comments on the web.... 
MUSIC SERVER - HOW DO YOU............
I’m also thinking to go computer based front end. I have great DAC with async USB, so it is begging for digital. After reading many forums here and on Computer Audiophile, I decided to get MAC mini and install SSD drive from OWC and run it headles... 
Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player
Very intersting dicussion about the same subject on the computer auifophile site:http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/CD-v-ripped-CD-files-inferior-Sound-qualityThe OP is trying to get clear answer to the same question I asked beofre, I quote... 
Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player
Hello, this is very interesting and exiting thread. I am following steps of the Wayneker2176 member here and pop a question. Did anyone besides Chadeffect ACTUALLY compared the hi-end computer based front end (all top notch software like pure musi...