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| A nice PC upgrade Hi Cerrot,You need to try out the new Marantz NA8005 network player from a usb flash drive out to the coax input of your K-03. It may just blow the pc set-up away. You can see my review of this affordable but excellent product in the Reviews secti... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Guido,That day will surely come and I will patiently wait with you for it. Meanwhile, the NA8005 is doing very nicely right now for me. What flabbergasts me is that a product like this that costs about 1% of the total system cost can elevate sound... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Just to add, if you want to play from your large SSD drive via your computer, you need to use the internal dac. All computer usb connections need to go through the internal dac and then via analog outputs to the preamp. To connect directly to your... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Only usb drives formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 is supported. Unfortunately, NTFS formatted SSD drives cannot be played by the 8005. | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Guido, I am using the Sandisk Cruzer with 128 GB on board. It is a high speed 2.0 usb thumb drive. I think these are easily available nowadays. | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Hi Tboooe,Thanks for your kind comments. For my minimalst set-up, no computer or software interface is needed. The player just reads off the data from the flash drive and the artist, album, track, file type and sampling rate info are all shown on ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Dear all,I called up my local Marantz dealer earlier today to find out about the new network player NA8005. Lo and behold, they have it in the store on passive display. So I trundled down to the store and brought it home. At $1199 retail, it was w... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Mark,I am afraid I use Windows 8.1 for hi-rez audio and will not be able to compare what you hope for. Also, I would need Amarra and A+ for the experiment.I appreciate your resolve in getting past the Mac Mini's "screw vaults", so to speak. Well, ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Guido,Looks like Mark has answered most of your questions. For me, I will continue to play redbook CD's in the transport and listen only to hi-rez via the HRA player. Comparing hi-rez via HRA to redbook CD's in the transport, hi-rez is at a whole ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Guido and all,I have compared the redbook version of the same album to the CD spinning in the transport. I am delighted to say that it is no contest with sound from the transport way ahead by quite a mile. I am happy because the substantial invest... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Guido,+1 Mark's comments above. Yes, it would be interesting to compare redbook files via the HRA player to CD's spinning in the transport. I shall evaluate this and revert. Mark, The HRA player does not do native dsd for the K-01/03. While I did ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Hi Phillyb,I hope to persuade you to try out HRA with your K-03 in which you have invested a substantial sum. I am not a dealer but just another hobbyist who has simply discovered and experienced the joys of HRA.As the cost of the K-03 comes with ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Many thanks as usual, Guido. I just downloaded the HRA player to my K-01 and the installation was a breeze. Upon installation, the upsampling option defaults to ORG (no upsampling) while the digital filter option defaults to OFF. The improvement i... | |
| Modern day female jazz recommendations Lyn Stanley's "Lost in Romance" is quite a gem to behold. Gives me goosebumps every time I spin it. | |
| Charlie Haden RIP Deeply saddened too. Listening to Jasmine right now. His brilliant artistry will be greatly missed. |