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Today, 05:48 PM
Thread: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
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Re: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
Only Grandioso level units can be upgraded.
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Today, 08:50 AM
Thread: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
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Re: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
The Esoteric rep from Japan was at the show. He said they were thinking about building a Grandioso level network transport in a way which leads you to believe they were actually doing it. If you...
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Today, 08:44 AM
Thread: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
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Re: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
No. There is only one DAC. It accepts PCM or DSD signals. PCM upconversion, and PCM to DSD conversion happens in a FPGA prior to the DAC. The DAC is just a software algorithm in an FPGA. So there are...
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Today, 08:36 AM
Thread: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
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Re: Esoteric DAC type, DSD or PCM?
They are sigma-delta modulator DAC's with flow pass filter. PCM signals are processed as PCM, or PCM signals can be converted to DSD before being converted from digital to analog. Esoteric also give...
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April 13, 2024, 11:13 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
That is a very good point.
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April 13, 2024, 11:07 PM
Thread: Esoteric K-05XD
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Re: Esoteric K-05XD
The pricing mentioned there is interesting:
"Those after the last word in stereo disc replay should start here Tested at £11,650 / $12,000 / AU$15,000"
Let's convert to USD.
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April 9, 2024, 06:42 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
Just highlighting the reality of living in the worlds most isolated capital city. The last two new cars I bought the dealers didn't have any cars they could show me. None. The wait for a new Kia was...
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April 8, 2024, 05:30 AM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
I'm the opposite. I've never demo'd a speaker before I ordered it. And never test drive a car before ordering it. The only demo I've done is the Halcro Eclipse power amp, and the Ether Regen....
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April 6, 2024, 09:05 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
Back in the day S3, S5 and S7 were about half the price of today's Mk3's. That's a lot of money for a dealer to wear to have demo examples sitting in a show room. Speakers of this pedigree could be...
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April 5, 2024, 11:23 PM
Thread: Which Esoteric amp?
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Re: Which Esoteric amp?
I have an Esoteric front end, but when I saw on the Esoteric YT channel that it takes three days warm up for M1X to sound its best I crossed it off my list for further consideration.
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April 5, 2024, 10:40 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
I vaguely recall reading an AW interview where he explained why there won't be a new version of the S7. Of course, he might have changed his mind since then.
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April 5, 2024, 10:38 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
He's their marketing guy, of course he'd say that. But he's probably right.
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April 5, 2024, 10:35 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
They've probably gazed into their crystal ball and concluded they can set that price and still sell as many as they can build, so it doesn't matter if the high price is opening up the width of the...
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April 3, 2024, 11:52 AM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
I dare say S5-3 will be a S7/M2 killer. It might also be an M3 killer.
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March 25, 2024, 06:59 AM
Thread: *NEW* Esoteric N-05XD
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Re: *NEW* Esoteric N-05XD
No, and no.
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March 22, 2024, 01:06 AM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
North of $50k MSRP would be my wild guess.
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March 21, 2024, 11:29 PM
Thread: Magico S5 mk3
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Re: Magico S5 mk3
M3 was launched in 2016 so it's been almost 8 years now yet the younger S5 beat it to an upgrade.
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March 21, 2024, 04:55 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
Why would what clock not work, the master sound discrete clock? or the external clock?
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March 20, 2024, 06:26 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
...and to wrap all this up (hopefully) the 1 pps clock signal (if used) and the master clock generator 10 MHz clock signal (if used) increase the timing precision, lower the jitter, and lower the...
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March 20, 2024, 06:07 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
Correct. And no it doesn't.
There is a master clock generator, which gets connected to the 10 MHz input of the DAC.
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March 20, 2024, 12:51 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
You don't need to know how a sausage machine works. As a consumer of sausages you only have casual interest knowing your sausage was made by a sausage machine.
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March 20, 2024, 12:47 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
It is used to connect a master clock generator - which has higher precision and lower phase noise than the internal master sound discrete clock - to the clock synchronization circuit to produce a...
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March 20, 2024, 12:37 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
How they should be used properly is written in the owners manual. In your case you can expect better sound clocking the N-03T to the K-05XD compared to using the USB connection. But you are wasting...
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March 20, 2024, 12:24 PM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
Not quite right. In D1X an external clock is only used to synchronize any digital sources which support external clock. If the digital sources do not support external clock you do not clock D1X. In...
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March 20, 2024, 11:53 AM
Thread: To clock or not to clock?
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Re: To clock or not to clock?
No it doesn't.
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