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Esoteric P5/D5 Opinions please
Tbooe...exactly what I am lloking for. Ine one of my systems which serves for home theatre as well I aminly use a music server for music: Sooloos. Right now I have it feeding a Mcintosh pre-pro and using the DA stage in the pre pro...and prety sur... 
Esoteric P5/D5 Opinions please
How is the D5 with non Estoteric sources? Anyone have experience? 
Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings
speaking of the god father...my favorite album of his is Funk Power 1970: Brand New Thang...longer jams, funky as hell, with none other than Bootsy Collin laying down th bass grooves. 
Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings
also blast from the past: The Blackbyrds 
Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings
live funk' jazz jam....try TJ Kirk's "Yalking Only Makes It Worse." Will Bernard o gtr, John Schott on gtr, Charlie Hunter on 8nstrong gts (doubles on bass duties) and Scot Amendola on drums...they play songs byjames brown, thelonious monk, rahsha... 
Freak Me Out
MMW is great but freaky? Groovy, yes! 
Sooloos music server: Anyone hear, anyone a dealer
I bet at CES Sooloos did not use an external DAC and just used its own internal DAC...which is unlikely to be that good despite advertisements otherwise. My recollection re Memory Player is memory space is quite limited, really not an access/archi... 
Size matters...need smaller speakers
The Volents also use a ribbon tweeter while the mid range uses the same woofer as Magico Mini original. I intend to investigate myself. 
Freak Me Out
Anything w/ Les Calypool, and Gorin/Levin/Marotta's From The Caves of Iron Mountain...the latter was recorded in a cave for XX sake, and recording quality is superb, absolute audiophile quality. 
cable lifters, how to maximize benefit?
I tried, couldn't tell the diff honestlty. 
Sooloos music server: Anyone hear, anyone a dealer
re sound Tbg...I think its a matter of DAC in this case, though the Memory player make claims otherwise....I don't think though it offers terabyte capacity and its mainly supposed to be CD player that uses cache memory? In any case, the main diffe... 
Reference DACS: An overall perspective
Personally never had an issue bass nor PRAT w/ EMM. 
Reference DACS: An overall perspective
Thanks, Tbooe, Saw u also in the music server thread....I have Sooloos with 2 terabytes so everything in lossless FLAC. Will investigate the D5. Can u apply the various filters via the DAC or is this only when u use a transport, I do gave the DV-6... 
Size matters...need smaller speakers
And one more the TAD's new monitors. not sure whether they are available yet though 
Size matters...need smaller speakers
Sure thing Tboooe. I agree re your assessment on SF, beautiful but the qualities you seek are not their strongest pts. I too am grappling with same issue as you are (smaller room so thinking 2 way) though we have different set ups. Some others tha...