DCS Scarlati v Esoteric P-01,D-01

The transport used in the P-01 is not used in any other Esoteric or competitive product.

Dealer disclaimer.

I think Teac/Esoteric has been very unfair with use of their transports. They basically have a monopoly on high-end transports, and will not allow others to purchase under reasonable circumstances. At least, this is what I heard, and what the availability seems to suggest.

Personally, I don't like that Esoteric is always introducing some new version. Very confusing, and must not be good for resale.

For me, the only player beside the Wadia to consider would probably be the Scarlatti. Unfortunately, I've not had the experience. However, I'm sure it is wonderful, and probably leaves nothing to be desired when properly and fully implemented. I've been a long Wadia fan, so the 9 series was a no-brainer from my situation.

Rob

Rob -

If you built the better mouse-trap, would you sell it to your competitor? I sure wouldn't. Business is business and has nothing to do with fairness.

If a competitor wants to build a better transport they should do it.

Jim

Jim,

Since I am not directly knowledgable about Teac's business model, how it operated in the past, and how it now operates, I feel not directly qualified to take this on.

However, my sense is that manufacturers that relied on Teac's OEM transport supply probably got the rug pulled-out from underneath in a major and painful way. I believe in some cases, models went to far stages of development, probably based on these transports, only to see those efforts and monies go to waste.

I'd love for someone to explain what is going on with the VRDS-NEO drive, why are there so many minor versions, and what happened to those manufacturers that thought they'd have this available for their own transports. I think one needs a degree to understand all the models offered over the past 5-10 years.

In any event, I feel very fortunate to have an awesome transport that uses a prior VRDS version 3.2 before they went unavailable. I have no doubt about the quality of the VRDS-NEO, although it may never be obtainable.

Rob

the absolute sound August 2008:

Where, you may be asking, is all of the dCSes’ added density of
information coming from? Bits is bits, ain’t they? Well, apparently
not, at least not until after they’re been retrieved from a CD by
the Scarlatti’s drive (which uses Esoteric’s top-of-the-line VRDS
Neo mechanism with dCS’s own proprietary control board),“randomly distributed throughout the quantizing range… effec-
tively turn[ing] any tolerance errors into random white noise,
which is far more benign than the distortion that would other-
wise have occurred.” I’m not technical enough to say for sure

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