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Esoteric X-05 CD/SACD player review

Enter Esoteric's most affordable player sporting the celebrated VM5-K transport

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Last reviewed: November 5th 2008

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Product Summary

X-05

Esoteric

Price at launch

£3,495.00

Key specs


SACD: Yes |

Full spec

For

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Superb build quality

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Extremely slick operation

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Very high resolution

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Can do pace and attack in the context of a natural presentation

Against

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The remote is system oriented which means a lot of buttons

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Player slightly prefers the midband to the frequency extremes

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