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| Help with possible integrated amp change for better match with my speakers. I would guess that you should start with your source (CD player). I recently changed my player (Modified Marantz) with an Esoteric player. It allows the details, depth and soundstage to expand. It is like a veil has been removed and also improv... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I just completed my last upgrade to my system with a new SACD player and consolidating my electronics into an integrated amplifer / pre amp as well as some cable changes and simplification. I don't plan on any other changes unless something break... | |
| PS Audios new PMG series.. I believe thare are three manufactures that actuall make their CD/SACD transports for their players.There be more but Esoteric. Luxman and Marantz. | |
| How to choose speakers that won't overpower your room? @zlone you didn't mention a budget. Some good suggestions regarding speakers that are designed to be placed close to the front wall. Also if there was a sealed woofer design or a front port vs. a rear port that might work better. I think a good... | |
| Furutech Flux50 NCF shoutout I have been testing a full loom of Furutech NCF cables over the last couple of weeks with a new integrated amplifer. The observations and conclusions are from three audiophiles and a recording engineer in a blind test. The greatest positive impa... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? Once again the cable question. Do cables make a difference yes. Just did a shootout with power cables on an integrated and CD/SACD player. One cable was $450 and the other $6,000. We switched them back and forth. The result was we preferred t... | |
| Moving to separates An interesting topic. I do have seperates, mono block s/s amplifers and tube pre amplifer. I am now testing an integrated platform and have been impressed! Not all assumptions are true in audio. This is enough of a postive change to move me to... | |
| Esoteric Grandioso K1x owners - have you added the PS1 power supply to your player ? This is a reply to an old post. An audio friend has added the PS1 added to his K1X se and he has indicated that the sound is a big step up from his K-01XD and in fact compares favorably to super expensive Wadax setup. Just his two cents. | |
| WHICH POWER CONDITIONER IS BETTER PASSIVE OR ACTIVE WITH ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS I had the reference Furman conditioner and switched it to the Puritan PSM 156. It was more effective in AC line noise reduction and I didn't have to listen to the faint transformer hum. Isotek is another good company that are audio club uses but... | |
| Townshend maximum super tweeters that they sell on Audiogon I gave them a spin on my Vienna Acoustic Liszt speakers and the concensus was we liked them better without the Townshend. Not bashing Townshend because I have the podiums and platforms under most of my equipment. | |
| Has anyone heard Esoteric K-01XS and K-01XD - or Grandioso K1X I just upgraded from a K-03XD to a K-01XD se. An audio friend just upgraded from the the K-01XD to the K1X se with the stand alone power supply. He indicated it was an upgrade from the K-01XD and we think it was the power supply that added the m... | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric This is an update on the Esoteric K-03XD vs. the K-01XD SE. I just installed the new K-01XD SE into my system so how does it compare to the K-03XD? It will require a few hundred hours of break in. That being said it has more punch, holographic pre... | |
| Should I replace my Conrad Johnson PV-2 with a McIntosh C-28 I had a C28 and Mac 2205 driving Dahlquist DQ-10's. Even at 200 watts per side it wasn't enough for the DQ-10's but that's another story. Unless the C-28 has been recently gone through it . will need some work with solder point touch ups and ot... | |
| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. @toontrader start with your speakers. You need to pin down the type of sound you value. Some are more analytical and others more romantic or possibly organic. Traditional box, open baffle, horns or something else. It depends on your musical ta... | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS Our club did an informal shoot out between the PS Audio Driectstream Mk 1 and the Holo Audio May KTE. Output level matching was a little challenging but after we got that dialed in, the actual sound difference between the two was negligable. I s... |