APL Esoteric X-01

Tboooe,
Way to go on your sale! I have not heard the Ushers.... heard good things about them.
When Stereophile did their review of the XA-160 they used the Wilson W/P 7s and the Audio Physic Avanti IIIs. Both were recommended matchups.
I ordered my Andras today... so probably 3 to 4 weeks till I see them in my room!
My fedex arrival date for my X-01 is 10/24(back to digital) I have a pair of Kimber Balanced interconnects coming for the Esoteric. My system will be all balanced after this....what ever that is worth..
Greg

I don't have the money for the cd players talked about here, but I definitely would listen to APL's version. I'm the "When is digital going to get the soul of music" person. I really had no hope for digital, as I thought the medium was inherently flawed. One's and zero's describing music? My best music comes from Alex's Denon 3910(my version). It took out my $10,000 analog(circa 1992). I did not believe this was possible. I also want to mention that Alex seems to listen to what you say, and backs it up. Also, I believe there is a discussion about Alex's version of your player on the APL Hi-Fi site.

"When is digital going to get the soul of music?" I just reached to this point last week when APL NWO-2.5, modified from UX-1,arrived. It has now superseded my high-end Vinyl source for enjoying natural music with much more dynamic and extension on both treble and bass. It proves that musical information planted in the CD's, not necessarily SACD, has been as good as, if not better than, that in the Vinyl records.

Hi All,
Slightly off point but I am trying to source a secod hand UX-1 or XO-1, 230v version for APL to mod and if anyone has any ideas or suggestions it would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
James

Actually, Chungted, I was afraid of the conclusion you came to with your APL NWO-2.5, because I suspected that was the case. My analog is just not competitive with my digital. I hope to rectify this in the future, so I can listen to the 2,500 lp's I have. Listening at Alex's might help get me started. My last comparison between analog and digital at Oritek Audio, still had analog ahead in terms of relaxation, but behind cd in detail.