@ Yul1375, wow!, you are very good at this, are you a writer of some sort!, I highly enjoyed what I read here, very well explained, no confusion about what was described, I do not know if you had the opportunity to play with the settings of the esoteric K series, users claim that there are settings to give the illusion of tubes,, just on your descriptions of sound that you reported, I am very interested in an audition of the k-03, please do not take this the wrong way, I am not bragging here, I try to be modest, I have Taralabs the Zero Gold interconnects that have the most absolute full body sound with rich sound scapes holographic all over my listening room with complete focus, more less, the stuff audiophiles dream of with sound, and I have the matching speaker cables, the Taralabs omega gold speaker cables, I just bought the top of the brand Taralabs cobalt power cord with the oyaide plugs two weeks ago to go on whatever source I get, the cables and The krell 700cx will likly give the rest of the sound to the Esoteric If I go that route, I am going to defiantly audition before I buy!, who knows, I may get disapointed with esoteric, I hate analitical sound!, I love tube sound done right!,, I know this, what I am about to say may come to you as a shock, I do not change cables for componets, If a componet does not sound good with the cables that I have, that componet is gone!,, leaves alot less room for mistakes, instead of chaseing the cables by the tail syndrome, alot of money can be spent doing that!, and you will never find absolution, the cables I use are in the handful of best available, I can hear this and know it, so at the end of the day, The cables expose the componets for what they are really about!, the weakest link so to speak of, If there is one, I will know, you really do not want to know what such cables retail for, lets just say, a small house!, no, I do not have money like that, I just have worked so hard to do this system since april, 2012, not very long, I am tring to invest in a system that I can ride off into the sunset with, I am 46, I need to think about these things, If I can get a state of the art sound today, who cares what sounds better tomorrow, good sound will never become obsolete!, thats what I am betting on, If it sounds great to me and the wife, were done, untill something is broken, I am not sold on the esoteric, It is however top of my list!, Thankyou, you are a wonderful gentleman, you have done more here than most, congrats are in full order!,, Happy Listening.
