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| Which Esoteric amp? Hi, I have bought the S02 and it is excellent. It takes some time to warm up but then it sounds pretty well as good as the S05 but with a bit more slam. With most recordings, I get about 85dB at my listening position (about 10' away from the sp... | |
| Esoteric Amps with Revel Salon 2 Speakers I don't know the Salon speakers so maybe my comments won't be useful. I have PMC Fact 12 speakers which have a sensitivity of 84dB. I tried out an Esoteric S05 amp with them and found they could play loud enough in my 12' x 18' x 10' room. The... | |
| To clock or not to clock? Thanks to both of you for this good advice. I am going to try the Esoteric S02 power amp to replace a Bryston 4B3. If I end up buying that, then the budget won't quite stretch to the G01XD clock. It may well be an idea to wait until funds are ... | |
| Upgrade Esoteric K03XD to K01XD? Thanks for your reply. I had a look at the Esoteric website but don't know what differences in diagrams would mean regarding sound quality. I have very few SACDs. If the DACs are the same in the 01XD devices, and better than in the K03XD, and a... | |
| Upgrade Esoteric K03XD to K01XD? Interesting ideas, thanks. Do you know if the DAC inside the N01XD is the same as the one in the K01XD? My local hi-fi dealer stocks CEC transports which might be worth looking at. I find the idea of a belt-drive CD transport intriguing. | |
| Upgrade Esoteric K03XD to K01XD? Thanks for your suggestions. I can see the thinking behind the idea of repIacing the current streamer and cd player with the N01XD but I have a fair few cds and I'm not quite ready to abandon the possibility of playing discs altogether. I'm not... | |
| Upgrade Esoteric K03XD to K01XD? Thanks for your response. I use an Esoteric N03T for a streamer, connecting with a USB cable to the K03XD. I have a Roon NUC with an SSD inside to which I rip some CDs via the network using Anyburn. So far, I am quite happy with that. I consid... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? They certainly can do so. I recently replaced long runs (6m) of thick (6sqmm) van Damme cables with Neotech NES 3002 cables Big price difference. The Neotech are made of OCC copper and have multiple thin cables in much better insulation. The r... | |
| Could you please give me an advice Hi, In my experience, one would normally connect a pre-amp to a power amp, and then connect all sources to the pre-amp. I connected my phone to my pre-amp using a cable from the head phone output to a pre-amp input. My computer has two options:... | |
| What is the best USB cable under $500 for a natural presentation and good detail ? I had very good results with the Oyaida usb: https://www.thecableco.com/continental5s-usb.html | |
| Esoteric K03XD I bought one about 6 months ago to replace a K05X. I found it was indeed more musical and organic, yet has great detail. It also creates an excellent sound stage. I can easily hear where the different drums are in a drum set. It is quite large ... | |
| Upgrade Bryston 4BSST2 to 4BSST3 or two 7BSST3s Thanks, you've been very helpful. I'll have a look at the audiocircle | |
| Upgrade Bryston 4BSST2 to 4BSST3 or two 7BSST3s That would be a possibility though some say that the Cubed sounds a bit warmer that the Squared. This could go quite well with the Esoteric sound, which does not err on the side of warmth.My speakers have rather low sensitivity, at 84dB, and migh... | |
| Upgrade Bryston 4BSST2 to 4BSST3 or two 7BSST3s Thanks, that's very useful indeed. I might e-mail Bryston and ask them about long XLR runs and AES48. I had not heard of that before.Bryston and PMC are also saying that, provided one uses good quality copper speaker cable, there is not much to ... | |
| Setting up a streamer for a frien I had the Esoteric K05X and now have the K03XD. Both models have three digital inputs at the back: RCA, USB and optical. My streamer (Esoteric N03T) is connected by USB cable to the K03XD and sounds great.It may be possible to find a $1,000 DAC ... |