*NEW* Esoteric N-05XD

After more than 3-month wait, this showed up at the door yesterday.

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Yeah, I'm tempted to come over to the dark side. I wonder if they will do D1X, N-03T and others in black?
 
MDP said:
I ordered one just like it!

I hope it doesn't take 3 months
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Sounds like you loved your demo, Mark. Please do share your impression.

It’s breaking in nicely for me. Still has a way to go to hit 200 hours as Mike recommended. So far so good and no feeling of being underwhelmed whatsoever. Rich, big sound from the get go. I came from MSB Discrete, so it’s my bare minimum. Excited to explore its feature set such as headphone output, pre-amp function in the coming days, although this will mainly be used as DAC + media player in the rig.
 
If I recall correctly from my N-01XD days it means that the internal clock is working
 
Green light should mean external clock is active.


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Mike said:
Green light should mean external clock is active.


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I reread the manual, I only had the N-01XD for a couple of months, and it appears that we are both correct… depending on if you have the clock sync set to ON or OFF. I had it set to OFF as I only used the USB and NET input. In this instance the light is solid green indicating that the internal oscillator is being used.
 
On N-01 and P1 I've only seen the blue CLOCK light (because I use an external clock). On G-02X the clock light is green if configured for adaptive zero ground, and blue if configured for normal operation.
 
brodricj said:
Clock light in green means what, no external clock?
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That’s probably the case for me as I don’t have an external clock.

What’s good? I’d prefer to keep the color in black and I know most esoteric clocks don’t come in black.
 
hi guys, first post here and English is not my mother language so excuse me in advance :

I was looking for a new streamer with DAC in the 5K plus region and was leaning on a Ayre Digital Hub with the solo focus of Streaming Tidal via Roon Nucleus.
My other equiment is a SME turntable with Gold Note phono preamp connected to an integrated fom Luxman, the 507uxII. My old streamer is already sold, a Lumin.

Then, this new Esoteric N-05XD appeared and i am still intrigued if i can take advantage of its preamps capabilties, besides the more straightforward Roon Ready function.
So, if i understood correctly, with this N-05XD i would be able to connect my phono preamp to a XLR input and then from the Esoteric to my Luxman integrated also via XLR output. On this case, the integrated would work only as a power amp and i could control the volume and all other options via the Esoteric. Am i right?
If so, should i expect a sound quality upgrade on this solution comparing to my current, feeding the phono directly to the Luxman?

Any feedback is much welcome :)

Stay safe.
 
I can get a demo unit whithin some weeks or strech my budget...if my assumption of improving also by analog source is right.
Also, will not decide before a in house demo, of course.

Are we audiophiles or not? :sneaky:
 
Well, looks that i am going to find by myself ;)

Will let you know, if anyone interested.
 

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does anyone knows if using balanced outpus to my integrated Luxman and setting the volume control to variable(instead of fix) on the N5-xd i am turning off the preamplification of the Luxman ?

Tks.
 
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