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| Can any player challenge Audio Aero Prestige SE ? Mrtennis: don´t really get your question ? Resolving and controll can go greatly hand in hand (e.g. Wadia, Lamm, Boulder, DartZeel, CAT, Kondo) and don´t have to exclude each other. | |
| Can any player challenge Audio Aero Prestige SE ? Mrtennis: no you would have come to the same conclusion. Base line controll of the 581 is simply stellar and lets the AA sound thin and much less controlled. The transparency and detail retrieval with the 581 is not another level but a nother plan... | |
| Can any player challenge Audio Aero Prestige SE ? Mrtennis: there is not need to specify. The 581 with the GNSC mod. makes everything a lot better than the AA. If it would have been a close call I would have specified.. | |
| Can any player challenge Audio Aero Prestige SE ? YES: GNSC Ref. Level modded Wadia 581 beats the hell out of the AA Prestige SE - we made an extensive two weekend shoot-out with several top notch players. The AA came in 3rd. after the DCS P-8i and the Wadia. | |
| Esoteric X-01 SE vs EMM CDSA SE We did an extensive two weekend shoout-out between sveral top notch players incl. the Esoteric X-01 Ltd. The clear winner was the GNSC Ref. Level modded Wadia 581 I´ve owned followed by the DCS P-8i. Unfortunately the D2 version and the one box EM... | |
| Was there a Pass Labs Integrated at CES? I was told it will be release mid of 2007 at a retail price of US $ 6.000,00 | |
| Ayre C-5xe vs. Ayre D-1xe Charles - thanks for the info. Hope you made a good choice regarding the new german distributor. I would know an excellent one who is servicing Boulder, ModWright, Acoustic Zen and a few others. Nevertheless I´ve just bought a set of C-5xe, V-5xe ... | |
| Ayre C-5xe vs. Ayre D-1xe Thanks for your input. I´ve just added one to my system. Very nice unit - not at the same level as my previous owned Wadia 581 with GNSC Ref. Level modifications but a steal at its price. | |
| Any experience with the new EMM CDSA SE ? Just was fortunate to listen to it vs. my recently sold GNSC Reference Level modded Wadia 581. To me a no brainer: sonically both are equally good (outstanding) with the Wadia having more baseline control and the EmmLabs a tad smoother midrange. D... | |
| When will Wadia 581 be available Hi Peter: glad to hear that you moved up to the Wadia cosmos - enjoy ! | |
| "Absolute best" used speaker for $8-10K I´ve just exchanged Avalon Opus Ceramique with Falcon S - a HUGE upgrade.. Kens, you are right: under normal circumstances you´ll have to wait until march 07` - but it´s def. wortn waiting for it although retail is 13.000,- which is approx. US $... | |
| ESOTERIC X-03 VS. AYRE C5XE I´d like to throuw in two other pieces out of german production: T&A as well as AudioNet - very well build, very reliable and very nice to listen to.. | |
| When will Wadia 581 be available Sprbggr: more about the new 581 in my virtual systems forum. Its an amazing unit right out of the box.. | |
| best speakers for Ayre amps ? meanwhile I shifted from V-5xe to V-1xe and from Ayon Audio to Avalon Opus Ceramique. Both systems are great. The latter one a clear step above the previous. Ayre with ayon and Avalon works excellent. | |
| Electraglide Epiphany , Upgrade or Downgrade? As a steady user of Electraglide power cords I must say - people who state that the Epiphany X is tending to be unmusical are talking bullshit. There are for sure components like Nagra where EG Ex dóesn´t work and PAD is better - right! But for so... |