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| Did anyone experience Audio Prism's Ground Control Budp, I've been very happy with three pairs of Audio Prism's Reference Ground Control Spades on my speakers. However, they did not work well on my fully differential solid state amplifier. My fully differential CD/SACD/DVD player, with a tube outp... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review A review of NWO-4.0SE in Fidelity, a Scandinavian high-end magazine, appears to reinforce some of my superlatives. APL has obtained permission to post the Google translation of that review on the APL forum: http://www.aplhifi.com/phpBB/viewtopic.p... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review John (Jafox),I'm glad that you are still enjoying your APL player. The E182CC tubes in the NWO-4.0SE are very linear, I've been very happy with them. When I had the APL player with the ECC99 tubes, I tried a supped-up version of that tube which wa... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Earflappin,Alex is a perfectionist. All his hard work and creativity paid off in the NWO-4.0SE. It's a masterpiece! You are right about some of the elements from the boutique 4.0SE trickling down to his more affordable digital. Alex's new DAC inco... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Alex, Richard Rives did a great job on my room. Using his instruments he first diagnosed my room's problems and then created a room treatment design that addressed those problems. After I implemented his design, he returned with his instruments to... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Glai, I have 8 hemifusors on the ceiling. They help with the first reflections off the ceiling and with slap echoes between the floor and the ceiling. The sonic benefits are greater clarity and smoothness. Thanks for your compliment.Peace,John | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Pete, Thanks for your compliments and for sharing your observations about the 4.0SE. Please post your assessment when your 4.0SE breaks in completely. Mine took between 500 and 600 hours, so you are not far from that.Yet there was something differ... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Harve, Frank is right, those are the Talon speakers I had on loan for a while. And thanks for your compliment of my room. | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Frank,Thanks for the compliment! The acoustics of my room, along with 2 other Rives' rooms, were reviewed in the October 2008 issue of Home Entertainment. There are photos of my room on pages 65 and 66. By the way, the reviewer's conclusion was co... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Roysen, Thank you for clarifying your comment about 3.0GO's dynamics. When you do get a chance to audition the NWO-4.0SE, try it connected directly to the amp. Just be sure to use a low capacitance interconnect. Let us know how it compares with yo... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Roysen, In your first post above, you characterized the 3.0GO's presentation as "almost dynamicly shy". I'm perplexed by that description because my experience with the 3.0GO was that it was very dynamic. You can read the 3.0GO thread on the APL f... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Roysen,After submitting my last response, I now see that Alex posted a much more complete response to you.Peace,John | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Hello Roysen,Greatly written review.Thank you for your kind comment about my review. I did however miss exactly what soundwise improvements you gained from upgrading from the APL NWO-3.0GO which was its real name (GO as in Game Over). Strange that... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review For example, the AKM DACs in the NWO process audio data at 141 times higher than the regular 44.1kHz CD sampling rate. WOW! That means the NWO DACs are outputting more than 6,000,000 samples per second (141x44,100=6,218,100). That would explain, a... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Lokie, "How much?" As far as I know, it's $25,000 plus your Esoteric UX-1 or X-01; add $10,000 if you don't provide one. The NWO-4.0SE uses the Esoteric chassis and its VRDS-NEO transport, but Alex guts most of the innards and replaces them with h... |