| Originally Posted by Snowy Law All E5 110V version we supply will be tailor-made units by E.Sound directly and Cattylink will never modify any 220v models to 110V. As informed by the E.Sound president, he will do some final tuning works to 110V units to preserve the original spirit of E5. Since E5 European edition is now much more popular than before (in Europe) E.Sound wants to use this model name even in us market (there are still different opinions on that). So at least at this moment all 110V version units still use the EU edition chassis. We think that "only let the original manufacturer do this" is the only way to preserve the original tonal characters of the equipment. My personal philosophy will be that every part and every material (even very minor) may be critical to a particular style and feelings of sound designed by the audio engineer. At least sellers should not do anything to spoil that. Some technical interests of E5: the RCA analog output is a pure class a circuit design but the XLR output is using op amp (NE5534). Why?? This is interesting! E5's designer said that he wants to show his philosophy that audio parts should not determine the final sound but should obey the engineer's circuit design. It is the engineer who will fine tune the sound and not the op amp, caps or independent circuit board. So it is really interesting to compare the XLR and RCA output of E5!! I leave it to all of you!! Another point I think I had stated before is that E5 uses TCCO - the real high-end system clock unit - which is impossible to find in ordinary priced CD players. The lowest price model I see using the TCCO apart from E5 is the expensive gryphon. E5 also uses clock distribution system design which is the first CD player (more accurately e3) that successfully employs this design in china. E5's designer had also put much emphasis on electric supply of the CD player, we can note top grade WIMA black box employed. Personally why I always say E5 is good and the best is that this is indeed a very different CD player - has a kind of special musical emotion of eastern people that others lack; has shown to the world that a low price and old model DAC unit (crystal 4390) can create great sound and can beat many models using latest 4398 or bb1738. If you listen to Cayin's expensive new model CDt-17a you can see even this model uses the latest DAC, uses tube output, uses true balance design - it is a great loser when compared with E5. I would say that Cayin is a good tube amplifier manufacturer but only a naive child in CD player's realm. |
| Originally Posted by Snowy Law Our management has approved a discounted price for E.Sound E5 110v version (of course manufactured by E.Sound directly) group order of a minimum of 5 sets ($498 USD per set). |
| Originally Posted by chillysalsa I'd like to organize a Canadian group buy... |
