Steve Deckert wrote on 06/08/08 at 03:52:43:Randy,
My eyebrow (only one) raised a bit when I came across your post -as you might imagine. But, I am not surprised nor disappointed. The reasoning is MORE than valid. I see your only asking 895.00 for it. If you want you're welcome to send it to me in exchange for a ZCD that I will add an IEC connector to and include one of our excellent power cords with - even up. Knowing how high a priority you place on imaging and sound stage, I'm willing to bet you choose the ZCD. Of course I will still give you a 30 day trial because 30 days is an absolute requirement to hear a player fully burned in. All I ask is that you accumulate some excellent NOS 12AU7's to roll through it during your trial. Granted, you can only take the red book format so far, especially when it's not up sampled to 96/24 or 192/24 and so on. However, when you take all the other things that make music instead of sound come out of a unit, the ZCD just gets it so right that the higher sampling rates, lenses, clocks., etc., really don't mean much from a percentage point of view.
Steve
Howdy Steve,
I will take you up on your more than generous offer ..... :)
The only thing I don't understand is why someone did not snap the ZP3+ up 15 minutes after I listed it ..... :-/
It's seems that not too many folks really understood what was being offered. Truthfully, one of the reasons that I did not play many LPs over the past couple of months is that the ZP3 made them sound so good that I was afraid that I might have second thoughts about selling the vinyl rig.
My reasons for wanting to stay with digital exclusively are sincere ..... my taste in music demands that I be able to program tracks ..... and I get into such a state of "deep relaxation" with some of the music that I "came to" a couple of times in utter horror while I still owned the Music Hall turntable not knowing how long the stylus had been tracking the end grooves of an LP. My wife calls this state "sleep" ..... but I assured her that I was simply in another place listening to the music ..... ;D
This is never an issue with a CD player ..... ::)
I already have the suggested NOS 12AU7 tubes ..... 8-)
The ZP3 will be shipped out to you early this week.
Looking forward to hearing the ZCD.
Best wishes,
Randy