Hello guys,
recently read this message below:
"I have reviewed your posts on PC and IC questions and a thin sound comment.
Q. When listening to the Esoteric K-03, are your usual interconnects XLR or RCA based ?
If XLR, then the reason for a thin sound often relates a hot pin mismatch, in other words an inverted phase, also revealed by an unusually wide sound stage.
USA (McIntosh etc) and your Euro made Gryphon have Pin 2 positive (hot) & Pin 3 negative (cold), whereas Japanese products have Pin 2 (cold) & Pin 3 (hot).
Luckily with Esoteric you can switch phase easily.
(Not so with the Luxman CD8 I auditioned recently, or the early Marantz SA11-S1 both being fixed. Only way to unfix is with a cross-over cable or a few minutes swapping pins with a soldering iron)."
Is this information correct?
Nice regards,
Ricardo Nonato.
recently read this message below:
"I have reviewed your posts on PC and IC questions and a thin sound comment.
Q. When listening to the Esoteric K-03, are your usual interconnects XLR or RCA based ?
If XLR, then the reason for a thin sound often relates a hot pin mismatch, in other words an inverted phase, also revealed by an unusually wide sound stage.
USA (McIntosh etc) and your Euro made Gryphon have Pin 2 positive (hot) & Pin 3 negative (cold), whereas Japanese products have Pin 2 (cold) & Pin 3 (hot).
Luckily with Esoteric you can switch phase easily.
(Not so with the Luxman CD8 I auditioned recently, or the early Marantz SA11-S1 both being fixed. Only way to unfix is with a cross-over cable or a few minutes swapping pins with a soldering iron)."
Is this information correct?
Nice regards,
Ricardo Nonato.