New Esoteric P02 D02

Well, I must say, I liked the styling of the D-02/P-02 better than the P1/D1 are surely growing on me. And I bought them more for listening than I did to look at....but looks are important! I am very impressed with Esoteric's voicing through these machines. The playback of redbook, which I have always thought was of secondary engineering in all the other Esoterics I've owned, is outstanding in my listening room. I have plenty of SACDs, which half are not even as good as the redbook version. But I am loading up old CDs and listening to new music. This is a more complete player than the D-02/P-02, which I still believe is one of the best players out there, especially for more complex music, but the P1/D1 right out of the box, sounds terrific. They have really blossomed into one smile after another. I believe I'm in for a real treat.
Time to start some serious listening and I will try to make some comparisons between the old and the new.

Please do....would love to know what you think about the 1s at a detailed level. The 2s are still kicking ass here; they continue to amaze in what they are capable of!!! Need to do some listening together soon!

I have mines already in the system also. Still very early days and have not been able to listen much to them but you ca tell very fast they are very special. Quite something. 02s are great; fantastic actually and I can't imagine anyone not being happy with them for many many years. But as good as they are, the 01s are just something else. I don't think there is a digital out there like these.

Will listen and give more feedback with more time on them, but frankly you don't need that much time on them to be able to hear what these things are about...

Will probably start a new post on the 01s as I don't want to convert this one in a 01. Assume people who reads this want info on the 02s above all. I have several years experience on them so will keep it up. Again, don't let my words get anyone down on th e02s. They are fantastic and given me many many hours of joy and could still have lived with them for many years, specially with th clock and right cables.

Thank you Eelii08, great to hear from you! When you post the new thread can you put a link here so that we know how to find it? Audiogon search sometimes does not find things even on keywords correctly.....

For those who are running the D-02 or the new D1, are you running the single ended or the balanced outputs?