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The price included shipping.

Brand new 230V K-01XDSE on eBay for US$15,900 + VAT.

Plug the Esoteric directly to the wall socket...it's often the case that power conditioning devices are unhelpful.

Upgrading to K01XDSE would bring a better improvement than any power cable...I don't know if the SE VUK was ever offered for the K01XD, or if it was it probably isn't any more. Esoteric would rather you buy a new player than upgrade an existing one. I'm sure the changeover price for XD>XDSE...

I emailed him weeks ago about Titan-15 and MXO but never got a reply.

M9 in Australia is AU$1.5M. As far as I know none have been sold here...I wonder if one day a pair is sold whether they'll both fly out here for the installation.

Do the Magico guys calibrate every MXO sold in the United States (i.e. is this included in the purchase price?) So they flew to Florida from California just for this purpose? By any chance can you post a YT video of them doing the calibration? Do you know the calibration software that they used?

Is the MXO "plug and play" or is a calibration using a microphone and software required?

I'd like to know what M9 does in that room that M7 couldn't.

I'd love to have the MXO on my equipment rack. But it's crazy money.

I would have though that's a M3 size room, or M6 at a tight squeeze. That rack of electronics is also insane. What's the customer using for power conditioning?

Yeah, I was going to say, even M7 would be a tight squeeze in that room.

The same argument applies to Esoteric. When they released Grandioso level network audio models a year ago might have been a bit of an own goal with disc transport sales. I own both and any argument about spinning CD's is now settled, well and truly. WADAX offering a Studio DAC should bring more...

I'm curious to know how many Studio transports they will sell compared to Studio DAC. At a wild guess, not many. It's hard to justify that price point for a physical disc spinner any more, particularly given how good network audio has become.

It's the Palisade DAC, and it fits below Cascade. It's a two box DAC without external power supply.