This far into the age of hi-res music streaming, it would be easy to write off any new stereo disc player or CD player as anachronistic. In truth, that is a reasonable assessment given the paucity of new products and the fact that CD sales slid down the wrong end of the bell curve decades ago. What of SACD? Sadly, the pioneering high-res disc format, good as it is, never significantly impacted the mass market and is now arguably more niche than ever.
It is also possible to take a brighter view of things, and being the optimists we are, that’s what we like to do. There are billions of discs still in circulation and enough people that want to play them at the highest level for a brand like Esoteric to produce something as magnificent as the new K-05XD.
