What's happened to the used high end market recently?? Sales are tough....:0(

EAR CDP can be run direct to amplifier(s) with the volume control.  Otherwise, the recommended setting for output is at 2 o'clock.  There really wasn't an EAR Acute 2, it skipped up to Acute 3 with digital input, then the two box version and now the one box EAR Classic.  The E.A.R. Acute l and  III begin life as an Arcam player. The transport mechanism and logic circuitry, including the latest Wolfson DAC, are retained, but everything else is replaced.  I heard the Classic with Prana speakers and a Class D amp with stock tubes and my CDs (Ramsey Lewis Down to Earth, Ellington & Basie Bands) and it sounded excellent.  The original Acute l sells for $1800 to $2000 used on GON.  Possibly more for the Acute lll.  They are analog-like sound with great dynamics and frequency response.  Truly amazing CDPs. 

HEA is fine but it has closed for today.
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I've been really disappointed trying to sell here recently.  Even where items are massively discounted, no interest.  Coupled with the charge just to list, it just doesn't make much sense. Conversely, have been able to sell elsewhere within one to two weeks at the same prices I tried to sell here. 

fleschlerdoes EAR cd spinners exhibit excellent micro-details, micro-dynamics in the music? I am a big Jazz Hound and enjoy hearing brushes on a drum kit properly reproduced.Happy Listening!

That is a very big YES. It is as resolving as most if not all my analog (a mod VPI TNT VI w/mod SME IV and Benz Ruby3). I listen to a lot of Contemporary CDs and they rival my original stampers. It’s all in the remastering with Phil De Lanci hit and miss (his The Poll Winners Ride Again is as good as my original pressing LP, his Kid Ory Creole Jazz Band a bad transfer, the LP is sooo much superior) while Joe Tarantino is generally excellent (L’l Abner) and dependable. The first thing I put on my system for guests is CD jazz recordings, they are so good. Hearing Shelley Mann is a delight. The Les Baxter Skins Capitol CD has so much ambience, micro-details and micro-dynamics, it is superior to the LP pressing (never as quiet either).  I have about 1,500 Jazz LPs and 1,200 Jazz CDs.