The current SOTA SACD player

I've been wow'ed by and now own a 2-channel, 2-box solution, the Esoteric P-03 and D-03 combination running in Dual XLR AES/EBU configuration; gives pure DSD for SACDs and lots of other options. Word clock in DAC can be used to slave the P-03 transport....

I've heard alot of great players over the last 2 years.

The P-03 and D-03 performance is humbling.

See Robert Harley's pre-review in The Perfect Vision together with recent reviews on 6moons and Soundstage.

Ecka,

After doing some research, I ordered the APL NW0-2.5 which is based on the Esoteric VRDS-NEO transport. I'll post my impressions when I receive my unit. In the meantime, you can get some information about it and impressions of some NWO owners at the following links:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1157456868&read&keyw&zzapl+nwo2+5
http://www.aplhifi.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=558

Best Regards,
John

Hello Ecka,

I strongly suggest you look into your unit being upgraded to the Signature version. Both the DAC and transport. IMO it is a huge upgrade!

All the best,
Tom

Thanks for the feedback so far. Tom, if I may ask, what exactly is the CDSD upgrade all about, because, if I have understood previous Audiogon posts correctly it semed to be mainly a label change to maintain some kind of model uniformity. Would you please elaborate on some of the sonic improvements that you feel the upgrade has resulted in.

Thanks again