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Free Advice Spherical Super Tweeter • Fast transient response • Wide dispersion (+/- 45°) Enjoy the deep and wide sound stage, while retrieving the lost inner detail throughout the audio range with muRata Super Tweeters. ES103A ES103B Visit: www.murata.com/speaker/ Contact: speaker@murata.co.jp ES105 50% of 90 mm Actual Size Specifications SPL: 90dB/w/m nom. Frequency Response 15 kHz-100 kHz Resonant frequency: ES103A/B 103 kHz ES105 105 kHz Nominal impedance: 8 ohms Dimensions (mm): ES103A/B 65 W x 110 L ES105 90 W x 118 L x 65 H Weight: (1.1 kg (2.4lbs) (Specifications may change without notice. See catalog or website for details) Let’s talk strategy. Let us assume that for the moment you don’t have the funds for a top drawer player (otherwise you wouldn’t have asked about the Philips), but that within a certain period of time you want to have a much better system than you have now (otherwise you wouldn’t have written to us). It now appears that SACD has won the war against DVD-Audio, so you’re right to be looking at that format. Looking to the future, you’ll probably want to buy SACD versions of your new discs, if you can get them, instead of Red Book CD versions. In the meantime, you can listen to the Red Book layer via any existing CD player. But then again you can also get the Philips and listen to the SACD layer instead. If you have a quality CD player, then, we recommend keeping it for the moment and putting money away for an SACD (or universal) player that is built to the standards of your present player. If you don’t, the Philips starts to look most interesting. It won’t give you all of the advantages of SACD (or any other medium when it comes to that), but it will have better dynamics than standard CD does. It will also play your CDs and 12 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine
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