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May 17, 2022, 08:51 AM #1Audioshark
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Esoteric Grandioso T1
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May 17, 2022, 12:41 PM #2Junior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
Quite a debut for Esoteric. To my eye it has a similar design ethos to the Acoustic Signature Montana Neo.
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May 17, 2022, 02:49 PM #3Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
A turntable with a 10 Mhz clock input. This must be why Esoteric did G1X with 5 clock outputs.
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May 17, 2022, 04:58 PM #4Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
I don't know all the different ways mag-drive has been done in the past, but this looks very interesting. And a very sexy looking debut. I love the fact it can accept multiple arms.
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May 18, 2022, 12:49 AM #5Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
Why is rotational speed of a turntable so critical? If they are syncing the turntable speed to a master clock signal for nth degree precision of rotational speed, the playback gear speed is probably far more accurate than the recording master. So its purpose seems moot to me.
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May 18, 2022, 07:01 AM #6Audioshark
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
Perfect and consistently perfect turntable speed is critical to accurate music playback on vinyl. There are many tables (belt) which do not keep perfect speed.
Originally Posted by brodricj
In the store we use a device made by Sutherland (he doesn’t make them any more) to determine speed accuracy.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk ProMy Systems: http://www.audioshark.org/showthread...481#post158481
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May 20, 2022, 08:16 PM #7Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
Absolutely stunning & beautiful turntable and PSU.
Adding master clock input is a brilliant stroke IMO and it's about time (pun) someone did this :-) !Legacy Audio VALOR with Wavelet V2, Legacy i.V4 ULTRA 4ch amp, HDPlex 300W LPSU, RevAudio Labs Passage Cryo-silver DC Umbilical,Ghent Audio DC Umbilical, Esoteric Grandioso P1 & D1s, Cybershaft Premium Ltd Type2 OP21A 10 MHz Clock, Esoteric C-02X Preamp, SHUNYATA TRITON v3, TYPHON QR & ALTAIRA SG hub & cables, AfterBurner8 duplexes, CSP Inc Q4B, S2B IEC support plates, Shunyata OMEGA CLOCK-50s, AQ Firebird 48 HDMIs, Elrod Master Series Diamond & Masters Series Statement Gold Power cords, Elrod Statement Gold XLRs, Diamond XLRs & Master Diamond XLRs, Shunyata OMEGA QR-s power cable, Shunyata Anaconda Z-tron XLR, Elrod Statement Gold speaker cables, Adona AV45CS3, AV45CS2 & AV45CS1 and Multi-Element platforms, Composite Audio CF-2010, HRS DPX Damping Plates, Stillpoints Ultra SS w/Ultra Bases
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May 20, 2022, 08:52 PM #8Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
I have no intention of ever owning a turntable, but if I did, this one would be it.
I'm pleased to see the production model has evolved its Grandioso shape from the initial pre-production rendering we saw last year.
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May 20, 2022, 09:40 PM #9Senior Member
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+1 on that....if I did vinyl ever again, this would be at or very near top of list from what I can see... Originally Posted by brodricj
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May 20, 2022, 10:14 PM #10Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
I'd like to know if many Grandioso stack owners also own a turntable. I suspect many of the Grandioso digital crowd wouldn't have much interest in turntables. I can see Esoteric selling T1 to non-Grandioso owners, but not so much interest from existing customers.
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May 22, 2022, 04:17 AM #11Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
Turntable has just been added as a new product category on the Esoteric website.
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June 4, 2022, 08:18 AM #12Senior Member
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T1 price just announced.
$74,000.Speakers: Magico M3,ACC, S-SUB | Electronics: Esoteric Grandioso | Amplification: Halcro |
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June 4, 2022, 08:23 AM #13Audioshark
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Do you have any info on the tonearm? I’ve been meaning to ask them. Originally Posted by brodricj
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June 4, 2022, 08:44 AM #14Senior Member
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Re: Esoteric Grandioso T1
It wasn't clear whether that price was with or without.
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June 4, 2022, 08:59 AM #15Senior Member
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According to Michael Fremer's report: "Esoteric's $75,000 magnetic drive turntable with Ikeda tonearm" Originally Posted by Mike
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June 5, 2022, 02:48 AM #16Senior Member
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The T1 brochure says TA-9D dynamic balance tonearm. Originally Posted by Mike
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