Recent content by Johnboston

Good luck getting this resolved soon. My K-01XD is at TAP for the SE upgrade. Has only been there since early June — so less time than yours. Curious if anyone who is getting these upgrades done has yet received a returned upgraded unit.

Thank you for the report. Seems like you got a constructive, helpful update — good to hear. Does sound like a strange issue with the network board. Hopefully that gets addressed with an effective solution quickly. Good luck.

Curious whether you got an update following this visit?

Isn’t TAP in the Bay Area? There were never riots there (and LA has been pretty quiet the past couple of weeks). My dealer told me they are backed up at TAP, but I didn’t get this sort of explanation. I suppose risk of ICE raids might play a role, but I’ve also heard of TAP often being...

Thx very much.

Is this both K and N series? Or just N?

Ok. Interesting. Thx. I do think I recall seeing reports of US based N-01XD owners getting the upgrade done, but can’t recall for sure. Doesn’t seem likely without announcement from Esoteric Japan.

In the US, they are offering the upgrade on the N-01XD. See Mike’s first post above. So, not necessarily limited to Grandioso.

Anyone heard about status of an upgrade program to the SE version for K-01XD?

I think they have at least slightly different use cases. F-01 is Class A and 30 watts per channel into 8 ohms (doubles into 4 ohms). F-02 is 120 watts per channel into 8 ohms (doubles into 4 ohms) and I think it is a Class A/B design (although Esoteric doesn’t seem to state that explicitly)...

It’s indeed very good. I’ve had mine for about a month. Great as an integrated — good punch but with the nice warmth of class A. The pre amp section is also great. I have a 300b tube amp that I also like to use and have connected the pre-amp in the F-01 to feed the 300b. I did get the extra...

The Esoteric website describes the key differences between the regular and SE models as an upgraded internal discrete clock and better analog output from the dac.

Thanks GSOphile. I was actually wondering whether that timing issue might be a part of the explanation.

Why would they update the N-01XD (as has been announced) but not the K-01XD? I might get it if they stopped the udpates at the Grandioso line, but they haven’t and are offering an udpate to a product that is at the same -01XD level in the lineup and presumably has essentially the same clock and...

No announcement yet on upgrade for K-01XD?