Anyone familiar with Soulnote?

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Looks to be an old Japanese Designer from Marantz. He has some interesting Design Philosophy.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

Build Quality and looks appear top notch.
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The speakers were one of the Perlisten models, and that's only a quick recording using my Samsung S21 Ultra cellphone.

In the room, it sounded amazing and even better than I thought I might find.

It's no secret I am a long-term Esoteric customer and fan. If they ever went out of business, I would immediately consider SOULNOTE as a #1 successor for my system based upon what I heard that day.

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I saw very positive review of their top line SACD player several years ago. Compared favorably with a similarly priced Esoteric and one other top brand. At the time there was no U.S. distribution.
 
GSOphile said:
I saw very positive review of their top line SACD player several years ago. Compared favorably with a similarly priced Esoteric and one other top brand. At the time there was no U.S. distribution.
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What is odd is that it says it is Japanese but the contact is Germany
 
That would have the ASR crowd up in arms. I'd love to have a listen to their gear..

I'm with him, I knew way back that receivers had better specs on paper than higher end gear yet that higher end gear blew the receiver away.
 
I was looking into their P-3 SE preamp and looks to be extremely well built. Seemingly offer more in the box than similarly priced competitions.

I really like the look as well and rivals Esoteric which I always regard as best looking.

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How much is the P3-SE preamp? It looks very impressive being a true dual mono preamp with a huge power supply.

Just found the price. $25k.
 
Just connected up the SoulNote D-1N D/A convertor tonight, and....VERY impressed.

Very natural-sounding and engaging; voices are superb. This is a fabulous-sounding DAC.
 
a mate of mine has the E-2 phono stage. he luvs it. has an DS audio cartridge input as well.
 
Mr Peabody said:
At that price it would comcompete with the Baltic or T+A
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Yes, as someone who owned a Baltic, it absolutely competes with a Baltic. In fact, it reminds me a lot of my Baltic-3. The Baltic is an absolutely lovely-sounding DAC, and the SoulNote is, as well. Very impressed.
 
Listening to these tracks on the SoulNote D-1N tonight, as I've posted above, the SoulNote D-1N really is a beautiful-soundng DAC, I must say. "Superbe!", as the French would say...

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It has all the wonderful quaities and attributes of a tube-powered component e.g. the Lampis, with none of the "hassle" of tubes, as it were.

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