[Nik]

Hi guy,

someone have listened the Qualia 007 player with the Qualia 010?

Thanks!
Nicola

 

[headphonecrazy]

I was in the Vegas Qualia store two weeks ago with the 007 + 010 combo.
Quite a forgetable experience I'll say.

 

[Nik]

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Originally Posted by headphonecrazy I was in the Vegas Qualia store two weeks ago with the 007 + 010 combo. Quite a forgetable experience I'll say.

Are you telling that the sound was not so good?

Best!
Nicola

 

[seeberg]

The 007(not the respected Stax 007), the SACD unit. For $12,500 + $3000 for the cans, I'd expect nothing short of O-O-O-Orpheus, but what do I care?. Too bad I've heard neither. I bet if Sony made a Qualia headphone amp package for the 010's they'd get some respect, if not some angry wallets. Personally though, the rest of the Qualia line is just overpriced poo if you ask me. However, I am VERY interested in hearing the 010's givent the opportunity, as I'm sure they are a more reasonable quality product(anyone coming to the next Oregon meet should bring a pair

). There's no way I'd pay the $4000 some odd dollars to use their 2 megapixel(What?!) camera, and no way I'd waste $12,500 on a single component SACD player when I could get a premium reference setup for that kind of scratch.

But enough of bashing the Qualia line besides the 010, I'd like to hear what was thought of the 007+010 combo too!

,
Abe

 

[Edwood]

Is the Qualia 007 the B&O wannabe that takes like 5 minutes to load a single disc?

Neat mechanism, but would drive me crazy after the novelty wears off.

Yeah, and that Qualia digicam is a joke.

-Ed

 

[seeberg]

Which B&O model CD player do you mean?

Oh, and I totally agree on the annoyance of novelty thing. I like my setup to simply go from pushing play to playing. Even the carousel rotating into position on my Denon DCM350 is annoying and even error prone at times, but the $10 I paid for it(and $13 for an AR digi coax cable) and its digital coax ouput more than make up for it.

And as far as digicams go, I'd much rather get this 3mp one or this 5.2mp one.
That's definitely substance over style if you ask me.

,
Abe

 

[ayt999]

why do you want a player that has two integrated 100W amplifiers? the disc loading mechanism has some use (though really unneeded and something simpler could have been substituted), but especially since Nik is probably going to use this as a headphone-only source, it is a waste of money to get a player with features like the speaker amps.