E.A.R. ACUTE 3 CD Player / Tube USB DAC Excellent Condition

East End Hi-Fi are an authorized dealer for E.A.R. and are selling our demo E.A.R. Acute 3 CD Player that has a tube USB DAC. This unit is in excellent condition, and sounds fantastic. We have been using Aurender and Innuos servers hooked up to this player with great results. After much experimenting with tube rolling, we have found a great solution for this unit with NOS Amperex 6922 PQ white label, and Amperex 6922 PQ orange label tubes. THE TUBES ARE INCLUDED WITH THE UNIT!
Here is what the press had to say about the E.A.R. Acute 3:

“With three digital inputs and powerful upsampling, the E.A.R. Acute III enters the big time…with hugely realistic, intensely musical, digital reproduction. With more sophisticated sonics than I thought possible from CD reproduction, you'll enjoy high sampling rates up to 24/192 flawlessly produced. With an Alesis, MacBook, or server, get ready for the gorgeous sound of live performances. Vocal reproduction is unsurpassed. Bass power and focus is fantastic. The E.A.R. Acute III is most surely state of the art, and will be the player/DAC that all will be compared, regardless of price.” Positive Feedback

“The ACUTE was smooth in a way that does not suppress information or add euphony. It is blessedly neutral in its character and its reproduction of the human voice is quite simply excellent... What struck me was the airy sweetness and extension of its high-frequency performance, entirely atypical for almost all digital players, and enchanting... Truth is, I like the unstressed quality of the top octaves here..." Harry Pearson, The Absolute Sound

The ACUTE III is Tim de Paravicini's latest CD player. It employs the latest Wolfson DAC, which upsamples to 24/192. Everything beyond the DAC is of Tim de Paravicini's design, including the filters and the output stage. One thing that makes the player unusual is that the filters are analog, not digital. Another is the transformer-coupled tube output stage. A third is the fact that it has enough gain to drive a power amplifier directly, with the front-panel volume control (also analog). The Acute 3 CD player offers both true balanced and single-ended analog outputs. The three digital inputs (USB, SPDIF and Toslink) are available for a wide variety of digital sources, allowing the ACUTE to be the heart of your system.

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