Thread: K-01XD Review
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Old 03-15-2021, 10:52 AM
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I have the K-01XD, and owned the K-01XS before I traded it in for this new SACD player.

I agree with justubes that the "warmth" of the sound really depends on your system.

I have a tube-based Luxman CL1000 preamp, ARC Reference 250SE monoblocks and Wilson Sasha 2 speakers.

That being said, there are different settings in the K-01XD that may be used to change the sound from organic (or "muddy") to higher resolution in the midrange. Having owned both a MSB Tech Discrete DAC and spinner and different DCS players, the Esoteric seems to me to be the best of this group of software-upgradable ladder DAC/transports. Of course, to each their own!
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