Romulus CD player--


Anyone have any experience with the above product, and or input regarding same?
bluesnbike1954
I understand Kana813's point in this sense, technically Grannyring's modified Romulus isn't "identical" to the official Signature edition. Having acknowledged this point it's surely possible that Grannyring's version could be the better sounding unit. A majority of listeners might prefer the Jupiter copper foil caps to the Signature's Dynamicap option.A very good preamp may out perform the VC sound card option.
Charles,
And the biggest point is I like it:-)

The standard and Signature have the very same power supply which is sooo important and greatly adds to the magic of this player. Outstanding power supply. Same case work and shielding. Now my analog board is the same or actually better IMHO because of the new Jupiter caps.

I don't have DSD and the Sig does. But my CD collection, and I only listen to CD's now, is mostly redbook. On those redbook disc's I certainly have heard the Signature.

I do not have a full Signature and never said I did. All I ever said is I like it and I did some mods approaching the Sig for little money and it was fun. When and if I want DSD I will ask for that board. Aesthetix may or may not let me put it in, but I will at least ask.

I have owned their preamps in the past as well as the Altas hybrid amp. I liked all of these pieces and think the designs are very, very good.

I imagine Aesthetix knows many owners of their gear prefer using one of their actives to the sound card in the Romulus. They do make several very expensive and well regarded actives as we know.
I forgot to mention. To owners of the Romulus or Pandora dac, tube rolling also yields nice results. I replaced the stock tubes with some nice NOS types with great results. Sylvania Gold Label and some EI NOS tubes. More air and illuminated top end were the biggest gains.

I decided on the 5751 12ax7 varient with the Sylanvia Gold label. Slightly lower gain, but that is a good thing for my system.
Had the stock Pandora without VC with ARC Ref 5 SE, rolled in some RCA and Amperex (Glen recommended Vintage Tube supply) and also have some Russian Rockets. Very pleased w sound..neutral, relaxed, big deep image. ran that two years and had factory do SIG upgrade. The SIG gets you the caps and resistors which some are focused on. But reality is both the Analog and Digital boards are new. FPGA should help future proof it a bit..ha. roll in HRS feet and I feel the upgrade represents great value..at least in my system and to my ears. The SIG does take a good bit to break in..like 300 hours...my buck fifty which is $.02 adjusted for inflation...
Thanks! for sharing- Tomic601-

the ARC Ref5 SE may very well be the finest tubed pre-amp in the market place at this time. It is also good to learn that it mates well w/ Aesthetix. Anyone else like the Romulus spinner w/ ARC gear?

Happy Listening!