skinzy
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| Phono preamp suggestions; can I improve upon my Aesthetix Rhea Sig ? Tube noise and other noise sources has been a problem with my Rhea. Your experience and description is very useful. I think the reason I was looking at Pass was for no fuss SS. Good to know this has been addressed in the Eclipse versions. | |
| Phono preamp suggestions; can I improve upon my Aesthetix Rhea Sig ? Definitely will do a wait and listen approach with my current phono pre which I've owned for the last 15 years. It's a tough question I know, but was hoping someone out there has heard the mentioned equipment and could comment. Recently upgrade m... | |
| Esoteric K-03 X - mechanical problems w tray I agree that Esoteric customer service is terrible. I own the K-01. I had issues and they would not even reply to my email! Great products but in the US their team needs to be replaced! | |
| Esoteric need a pre-amp? I have a K-01 and VAC sig SE. I was initially using the K-01 as a preamp to drive my power amps directly and it worked great (you have to change the esoteric settings for it to act as a pre). Ran it this way for many months. Then I inserted the VA... | |
| Esoteric X-01 versus Oppo 105 Darbee for CD audio? "There is no USB available for the X-01 Do you actually own the K-01? Ive been enjoying my Mac mini server using the K-01 as the DAC through its USB input for years. If we measure the quality of a component by its feature set then Id go with a ... | |
| Esoteric X-01 versus Oppo 105 Darbee for CD audio? Colekat....your right and Im wrong. Lets all buy Bose! In my opinion its the best value and I could have saved $150,000 on my system! | |
| Esoteric X-01 versus Oppo 105 Darbee for CD audio? Original question was not about value or price. I agree the OPPO is a good value. As to power conditioning I ran the OPPO through my Hydra. | |
| Esoteric X-01 versus Oppo 105 Darbee for CD audio? I owned an OPPO 105 before purchasing the K-01. Not even in the same league. | |
| Which software to get?? Audirvana, Decibel, Pure? I first bought Pure Music2 then Armarra Symphony. Love and use Amarra the most because of room correction software. | |
| The end of pono? I dont think many will hear any difference between Hi Res and Red Book on the pono player as it requires a trained ear and a very revealing system. I think it will come to the same end as SACD. Most folks could not hear the difference and would n... | |
| Personal speaker evolution Your right, they are different. Its truly an unfair comparison given the price difference as I think Alexia is better in every way. One big difference was I changed from a medium size listening room to a vary large room. The Verity could not play ... | |
| Personal speaker evolution AR 2aAR 3aDynacoPolk Audio SDA2B&W 802Verity ParsifalWilson AlexiaA span of 48 years.... Im done. | |
| Sonos or Mac as Source? I cant answer but can say my Mac mini with Amarra Symphony with its room acoustic correction software is fabulous! I use my Esoteric K-01 as the DAC. | |
| Sonos or Mac as Source? Jkscherk. You need to get a monitor dummy plug from OWC as it will speed up screen sharing. Works great. | |
| AVA FET 600 I had the FET 600 driving my B&W 802s until I did a major system upgrade. It was a great match. Had been using ARC tubes before but felt AVA much better synergy. The speaker connectors are, however, very ackward. Beyond that great amp. |