Hi,
As the owner of the po-1,do-1,GorB clock system for four years i too had much anticipation for the new Grandioso line but balked at another 4 [or5!] box system...
Much of what has been learned by Esoteric in those last years are present in the KO-1x all in one box!
To be fair the Grandiose affords a much greater deal of complexity as regards both different set-up options and variables to contour sound...
My goal, at 63, is to have the most undiluted representation of PCM as i believe it was never the disk, just the loss in the transfer of data!
Therefore i want no up or oversampling, 356,DSD, USB etc. etc. et al...:-)
Also the number of PC's and additional wires are now better spent on my other mistress...ANALOG!
Just one man's fight not to buy into a THIRD form be it streaming or downloads.
As the owner of the po-1,do-1,GorB clock system for four years i too had much anticipation for the new Grandioso line but balked at another 4 [or5!] box system...
Much of what has been learned by Esoteric in those last years are present in the KO-1x all in one box!
To be fair the Grandiose affords a much greater deal of complexity as regards both different set-up options and variables to contour sound...
My goal, at 63, is to have the most undiluted representation of PCM as i believe it was never the disk, just the loss in the transfer of data!
Therefore i want no up or oversampling, 356,DSD, USB etc. etc. et al...:-)
Also the number of PC's and additional wires are now better spent on my other mistress...ANALOG!
Just one man's fight not to buy into a THIRD form be it streaming or downloads.