Esoteric X-05 CD/SACD player review
Enter Esoteric's most affordable player sporting the celebrated VM5-K transport
Our Score
Last reviewed: 2008-11-05November 5th 2008
CD players and recorders Review
Product Summary
X-05
Price at launch
£3,495.00
For
>
Superb build quality
>Extremely slick operation
>Very high resolution
>Can do pace and attack in the context of a natural presentation
Against
>
The remote is system oriented which means a lot of buttons
>Player slightly prefers the midband to the frequency extremes
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