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    • Emotiva ERC-3
    Taking CDs to the Next Level
    Even in today’s download age, most of your best music is still on CDs. You probably have hundreds, if not thousands of them. But finding a player that can treat them right and bring out their best can be difficult, especially if you don’t want to spend thousands… until now. The all-new Emotiva ERC-3 sets a new standard for exceptional compact disc playback, at a price that will leave you breathless.

    Performance from the Chassis Up
    Everything about the ERC-3 was designed to extract the best possible performance from your discs. Pick it up and feel the rock solid 21-pound chassis. Strategically placed steel dampers add additional mass loading, reducing vibration and resonance to negligible levels. Feel the smooth action of the high-reliability tray loading mechanism. We spared no detail in creating a tough, precise, and gentle playback platform for your treasured discs.

    Balanced Audio Quality
    The legendary Analog Devices AD1955 Multi-Segment Delta-Sigma DAC’s joined to our all new Differential Reference™ analog circuitry deliver class-leading audio performance, whether you’re looking at the numbers or listening to the end result. You don’t need an external DAC for a nuanced, engaging, and resolving musical presentation with the ERC-3—just connect the balanced or unbalanced analog outputs and get ready to hear what you have been missing.

    An Exceptional Transport
    Already own a great DAC? The ERC-3 is also a top-class digital transport, providing optical, coaxial, and AES/EBU digital outputs to interface with your DAC of choice.

    Amazing Versatility and Control
    Do you have MP3 CDs, HDCDs, or Hybrid SACDs? The ERC-3 plays them all. Sit back and use the included solid machined aluminum remote control to stage a command performance you’ll remember!

    The Emotiva ERC-3. Taking your discs to the next level.



    Features

    Complete disc solution: plays all Red Book stereo audio CDs, HDCDs, MP3 CDs, and the Red Book layer of hybrid SACDs.
    Audiophile sound quality through superior design: Analog Devices AD1955 high-performance DAC with multiple isolated and well-filtered linear power supplies for analog and digital circuitry.
    Versatile analog connectivity: both balanced and unbalanced analog outputs are provided.
    Works great as a transport, too; Toslink optical, coax, and AES/EBU outputs provided.
    High-quality construction throughout: reinforced steel chassis with additional mass loading to minimize interference and vibration, machined solid aluminum faceplate, a high-reliability tray loading mechanism, and machined gold-plated output connections.
    Easy to use: full front panel controls with blue halo illumination, high visibility alphanumeric status display, and solid machined aluminum remote control.
    Take it anywhere: user selectable universal line voltage operation for 110-120V or 220-240V AC.
    Easy to integrate: standard trigger input and output.
    • Rega Osiris
    Introducing the Rega Osiris flagship integrated amplifier

    The Osiris is the culmination of Rega engineers 32 years experience in solid-state amplifier development. A no compromise audio amplifier using state of the art surface mount technology and a fully symmetrical circuit.

    Design

    A super high performance, 162 Watts into 8 Ohms (250 Watt 4 Ohms) dual mono amplifier housed in a custom Rega CNC machined aluminium case with high thermal efficiency heat sinks. Designed around
    • Pioneer / TAD S-2EX
    Features

    1-3/8 in. (3.5 cm) Beryllium tweeter / 5-1/2 in. (14 cm) Magnesium midrange
    CST driver
    7-1/16 in. (18 cm) Aramid / Carbon composite shell woofer
    Large Neodymium magnet
    Magnetically shielded-design
    Aerodynamic frame and magnetic circuits
    Perfect time-alignment design
    Precision curve
    Round enclosure
    Phase-control design
    Unleaded solder
    3-way speaker system
    • Warfedale 21
    21
    • Nordost Valhalla
    1 meter XLR pair
    • Shunyata Cobra Z-TRON
    2 meter pair

    As the most affordable cable in Shunyata Research's ΞTRON Series of cables, the ΞTRON COBRA speaker cables re-introduce the concept of value to the high-end cable market. The ΞTRON COBRA signal system offers performance that challenges the highest priced cables in the world, but eschew the jewelry-like accents and price inflation common to many cables in the COBRA’s price category.

    Why? Because Shunyata Research wants the patents-pending ΞTRON technology and performance in the COBRA designs to impress the broadest possible audience. For the first time, industry professionals and customers can actually afford state-of-the-art performance from cable systems without having to pay for over-dressed, over-priced extras that have become more the norm in the cable industry.
    • IsoTek Evo3 Sirius
    OVERVIEW

    Sirius is a high-performance, multi-award-winning power bar, which protects and improves your precious audio components. A special wall bracket system allows Sirius to be mounted discretely behind your audio system.

    Removes Common Mode and Differential Mode mains noise.
    RFI reduction 40dB.
    Independent outlets – no outlets are connected together, stopping Differential Mode mains noise cross-contamination.
    Unique Inductive Resistance Gate© optimises the isolation between each of the six outlets.
    KERP© (Kirchoff'sEqualResistancePath) ensures equal resistance and equal power delivery across all outlets. No outlet gets power before the next, a common problem with other power products which daisychain outlets together.
    22,500A of instantaneous protection, featuring IsoTek's unique sequential protection system.
    Internal wiring; multi-strand silver plated OFC copper with PTFE dielectric.
    Maximum power, continuous 2,300W.
    • Shunyata Anaconda Z-TRON
    1.8 Meter Power Cable x 2. One on the Emotiva and one on the Rega.

    The ΞTRON ANACONDA is our reference power cord and represents the current state of the art in power cord design. The ΞTRON ANACONDA power cords are currently being used in the world's most respected recording studios and in the finest audiophile systems.

    Installing a single ΞTRON ANACONDA on a key component such as an amplifier, HYDRA or critical source component will deliver a dramatic, component level sonic improvement to the system.

    This is a direct result of our DTCD research into the effects of instantaneous current delivery.
    • Kimber Kable PK-10 Gold
    2 Meter Power Cable on the IsoTek Evo3 Sirius

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Should you decide to sell your Pioneer S-2EX please let me know.

Regards,
Burt

seattlehifi

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