Dear Mr. Lee,
I wish to inform you that my equipment has arrived few hours ago. Everything was
in perfect working order, and very professionally packed as always. At a very first
listening the pre+ampli sound impressively well, and seem to fit perfectly each other.
Even after few minutes I had my Moon Rivers singing as never before. I will be waiting
for further listening and some burn-
Best regards,
Juan
Dear Cattylink Service
this mail is to say thank you for your shipping! The amplifier I ordered arrived
perfectly at my address 3 days ago and the package was simply wonderful, bomb proof!
The box was in perfect condition outside and inside,I really appreciate this kind
of care. This amp (Ming Da MC300-
Thanks a lot, best regards from Italy
Gian Romani
(I authorize you to edit this comment on your Reviews Page of your website, if you like)
DEAR SIR, MR. SAMSON LEE,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR GOOD SERVICE AND ACCURATE DETAILS ABOUT THE
PROCESS!! -
I WILL BE PLEASED TO GIVE YOU COMMENTS ABOUT ALL, AFTER RECEIVING THE
PRODUCTS!
HAVE A SUPERB DAY!:)
BEST REGARDS,
EINAR
Hello,
Just to advise you that your shipment has arrived safely and in good condition.
Very good packaging!
I will pnly be able to play it when I get back to my own home country.
I imagine we will be doing more business later on.
Thanks for good service and best regards.
Joerg
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SENDING OF SHENGYA S10CS MKII (VINCENT S6 MK) VACUUM TUBE CD PLAYER
I HAVE RECEIVED IT OK AND IT IS REALLY GREAT.
IF I WANT ANOTHER PRODUCT LATER I SHALL CONTACT YOU FIRST
PHILIPPE FARINO
hi jason
I have the amplifier consonance 100 mk in my house
2 day to com from hong kong ! , this is the top with you and dhl
the amplifier is good with my speaker, very good ; this is true , the consonance is not raw and very sonorous fine and beautiful shrill
thanks for your recommend jason
a question: you think that I can change , for test, the tubes el34 , without change the bias ?
because I want try , for tests, my tubes el34 electro harmonix and my tubes siemens, and winged c
soon , I command you, the consonance cd 2.3
I think that the consonance 2.3 is good for jazz vocal and blues, and more softness that the cayin cd17 ; waht do you think of that ?
thanks for your response jason the best recommend of the world
good day
pat
Dear Mr. Lee,
I wish to inform you that I have received my pair of Aurum Cantus Moon River yesterday,
earlier than I expected. They were in perfect conditions and very professionally
packed. I was very positively surprised as they are even more beautiful than in pictures,
with a beautiful wooden case, made with a preciously finished and great looking French
sycamore. They sound astoundingly, with perfectly neat and brilliant high tones,
a very charming midrange, and a wonderfully clean and powerful bass. They sound perfect
on every musical genre, and I am expecting further improvements after a short period
of burn-
Best regards,
J C M O
DEAR CATTYLINK,
THE "V88 LUXURY EDITION" HAS ARRIVED,IS BEAUTIFUL AND IT SOUNDS GREAT,THANK YOU FOR THE SERIOUSNESS AND PROFFESIONAL DEMONSTRATED.
CHINESE HIGH-
THANK YOU AGAIN.
Best wishes to you and the beautiful China.
Gianluca Demontis from Italy
let me say you that I am very glad of the quality of your services, your prices are incredible, the reactivty of your after sales service and transportation are very good.
You can be proud of your company, as good, or better than european or american standards, and twice times cheaper ! Great job !
Aurélien Duplan
Dear sir,
The unit arrived in perfect shape. Thank you very much for the quick delivery.
Thanks,
Mark
Dear Mr.Jason Lee,
I am pleased to inform you that yesterday the Jungson JA-
With Kind Regards,
Johan Van Nieulande
Dear Samson Lee,
The JungSon has arrived in perfect condition,very well packed,fast delivery.The best sound of an amplifier I ever
heard.
Hereby I would like to thank all the staff of Cattylink and a special big THANK YOU to the person at Hunting John
and he/she knows why, you made my day.
May the SPIRIT of the GONG always be with you.
Best regards
Manfred H Bronkhorst
Hi Samson/Jason,
I received the speakers today.
Thanks for double box, the speakers are safe even with heavy rain.
I can leave a positive feedback for your company if you like.
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Hi,
JA-
Much thanks!
Best regards,
Pierre
Dear Samson,
goods have arrived today in good order and condition.
I am 100% satisfied of my choice and I thank you very much for being patient with me.
Regards
Attilio
Dear Mr. Lee,
the new Doge 8 preamp has played now for a couple of days, so he might
still not be played in completely despite the burn-
Anyway, I am very impressed by the performance of this product
regardless its price level. My previous amp is a local brand in the
Netherlands of high-
years old) are selling for over $15.000.
This preamp gives a wider and very stable spacious image, a lower
floor noise and significant more detail information. Also, it is very
dynamic. I'm hearing my CD collection as if I had bought new, so many
additional musical information I hear. This preamp as linestage is
definitely a no-
The preamp is build like a tank and also thanks to the excellent
packaging it survived the trip from Hongkong in excellent shape.
Thank you for the great service and responsiveness. (do you ever
sleep?).
Best regards,
Quint
With Lee Samson,
PDF received, perfect.
Customer focus, excellent.
Keep it up
Best Regards
Giuseppe
Arrived amplifier, under excellent conditions.
Very powerful and refined sound.
Thanks for the professionalism that treat the international clients as me.
Thanks from Italy.
Thanks
Best regards
Giuseppe Dosselli
Hi Samson,
I received my speakers yesterday. They are beautiful and they sound excellent. I have had many speakers in my lifetime, thus far and I must say that there are no set of speakers in this price class that can compare. Brilliant! I want to thank your company for giving me the opportunity to enjoy music at such a high level and I love music. Thanks very much. Keep on doing what you are doing. I hope the companies in China recognize and appreciate what you have done for them by making it possible for their products accessible to folks on the other side of the world. All the so called North American distributors make it impossible for the average person to afford these great Chinese products by trying to get rich off of one sale (selling the product for very high products) and by discouraging consumers from buying from Cattylink. I appreciate what you are doing. And, your customer service is second to none (you’re number 1). Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
Best regards,
John Brathwaite
Hello Jerry,the packages have arrived,and I a´m listening just now to my MC34-
Thank you very much ,we will recommend your company to all our HIFI-
Alf
Hello, j' my reader Raysonic CD238, I received thank you for l' excellence of your service and your commmuniquation.
Bravo and 1000 mercis.
Best regards.
Daniel Yperzeele
Dear Samson,
Just to let you know that the package arrived today. As usual the packaging is first rate, and the record cleaner worked perfectly when I tested it just now. The belts are in order too. Thanks.
Choy Heng
Dear Samson Lee,
I thought I would send you an email to let you know that all the equipment arrived safe and sound in Perth yesterday.
Thank you to everybody at Cattylink for the excellent service, I would not hesitate to recommend you're company to anybody looking for high quality audio equipment.
Many Thanks
Alex Boyd.
dear sir,
I received my consonance M100s tube amp this morning.
i've been listening to it all day, it sounds great, thank you for the
conversion and the delivery.
Hope to buy things from you soon.
Thanx again.
best wishes,
kris
hi i have received the amps and i am very pleased with them. there was one thing
i was wandering the cables that you sendt with the amps do you sell those?? i cant
fincd them at your web-
i wold like to buy som more of those cables if they arent to ekspensive.
Jannis
dear Samson Lee,
after using few weeks all time turn on my Ming Da MC300-
For now,beeing listening diferent kind of music and using high quality other components of the music system(also 95dB speakers),I can concluse that the amplifier do quite well with jazz and worm instrumentical music,very detailed and performs very good the stage of instruments. But when we talk about the smooth dynamics and liquidity,eassy can see(or hear) the lack of it....also the sound is a bit some kind clean but harsh,hard...not balanced sound as it could be and that mean not so natural,please take thisnot as a critic,but maybe this will help you in the future to increase the quality of your systems...
I take all the risk to buy this item on me,maybe it would be better to buy much more expensive one 300B,but my budget for now is very limited.In any way,I'm going to upgrade this amplifier in the near future.May I ask you question,which could sound a bit strange to you,but any way: to make may job a bit eassier,please sent to me the principal sheme of the unit (if you have such from your produse),because I'll draw it in any way to try to make some upgrades on the signal path... I don't know,how big the different it could take the change of transformer (output sure),to reach the qulity similar to Consonance Cyber model...?
my best regards ,thank you for understanding and have a good day
Rimantas
Many thanks!
Continue in the future to make purchases from you!
You are an exceptional team and you, Mr. Lee is really very kind .-
Cordially greeting.
Marco
Dear Samson,
I just want to let you know that I have received the Amari turntable yesterday. Putting
it together last night, I found that the task was easy – and pre-
I also want to thank you for your responsiveness and attention to details. I would certainly spread the news here in the Singapore. If I need anything else related to the turntable (or other equipment), I shall certainly contact you again.
Regards,
Choy Heng
Dear Mr Lee,
I received the Meixing MC34-
I than connected it all up, tubes, Power Supply to Amp, CD Player, Speakers etc.,
said a prayer, and turned the equipment on. There was total silence, no hiss, no noise, just silence, beautiful silence, the way it should be, before the music begins to play.
I waited about ten minutes to let the tubes warm up, put in one of my favorite cd's and pushed play on the CD player. I could not believe my ears, I am not going to go into details, all I have to say is WOW! WOW! WOW!.
Maybe just one word SUPERB.
I had a domestic brand, much more expensive (no names mentioned) AMP and CD player, and if they could reason they would hide in shame.
I forgot to mention, the packaging is excellent, which is the way all equipment should be packaged.
Mr. Lee thank you very much, for your advise, prompt replys and great price,
and by the way, no I can really enjoy a glass of wine with my music.
Regards,
Joseph Curini
Hello Cattylink,
My tube amplifier has arrived, really wonderfull sound I'm very happy with the Yarland.
Best Regards,
Huub Ireeuw
Received the Doge 6 and Doge 8 today in good shape. I am playing them now and they sound good.
Thank you, Kenny Brant
Dear Samson,
i received the speakers already a while ago. They are realy great and i‘m very very satisfied with them!!!
Thank you very much for the smooth clearing and service J
Andre3as
Dear jerry,
I received the parcel last Friday. Congratulations for the packing J. I was impressed. So, i would like to thank you, you and your team for
the excellent service and for your patience before my final decision. Thanks as well for the gift you sent me J (interconnect).
I have a pratical question regarding the switch on and off of this amplifier : how should i power if on and off ? Should i use every time
Thanks and in advance for your help and best regards
Nicolas Nanchen
Dera Mr Law, Just back in Italy today.
Your packing is impressive of efficiency.
Let us look at the trip that the equipment did in the last 2 weeks:
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Thus your parcel has passed 4 borders, has been trasported at least 20 times by taxi, before to be registered as air freight.
It supported the weight of my youngest son Léo, & years old, at any airport transfer.
The parcel arrived intact this morning with us in Italy. Out of the box the equipment started immediately.
That is to my eyes a self talking proof of the quality of service offered by Cattylink.
Cheers by now
Philippe
Hi Samson,
Thankyou for all your help with my order. You have answered all my questions quickly and kept me informed with the progress of my order.
I am very happy with your company and look forward to receiving my new JA-
I will recommend you to my freinds.
Thanks again.
Regards
Brad
Dear Samson,
Pleased to inform you that the amps arrived in good condition.
Have connected the units -
Thanks very much.
Best regards,
Michael
Hello Chris
I would like to advise you that I have received the amp yesterday.
It arrived securely packaged -
I have now installed it and am vey happy with the performance of this unit.
Kind Regards
John Bednarz
Dear Chris,
I was away for sometime. I have received the optical head for the Shengya CD player and had replaced the damaged one. The player is now working perfectly. I am very happy with its performance. Thanks very much for the assistance.
Best regards,
Chen Chee Yam
Hi
I booked the MC-
I have yet to set up my MC-
Regards
Christopher Leong
Received the amplifier last week.
Thank you so much. It is very nice for the money.
Clifford Barry in Switzerland
Dear Samson,
Thanks for your service, you were excellent all the way through out this purchase.
I just wanted to say that I've received the Shanling T100SE CD player today in good
condition and i can say that this is a superb sounding cd player. Now i'm eyeing
for the tube amp. I've been looking at the Mingda (MC368-
Sincerely Regards
Elias
I just received the Jolida and just wanted to congralutade you for your effectiveness, I was delivered very fast and the quality of this player is really nonstandard....
Thanks one more,you can publish my answer....
very best regards
Alain
Dear Mr. Law,
today reached me the ordered MHZS CD33 Vacuum CD Player.Thank you very much for your professional packing!
I am very satified with the quality and it sounds good.
Yours sincerely
Jürgen Hassert
Hi Samson
I have now had the Jungsons for a few weeks. I am very pleased with
them and they function all right with my quad 989.
Thank you
Regards
Henrik Scheel
Hi again,
I just want to confirm that the products have arrived safely and seem to work flawlessly. Thank you for the great service. I look forward to purchase from Cattylink again!
Best regards,
Asbjorn
Dear Snowy,
the RCU arrived and IT WORKS PERFECTLY!
You are the best. Thanks a lot!
Best regards Nils Plambeck
Chris!
Really thank you for your kind, quick and professional support!
Thanks again, it is a pleasure doing business with CATTYLINK
Warm regards
Vittorio Battaglia
Dear Snowy,
I have received the speakers, they are just beautiful.
I wish to congratulate you on a job well done, you have guided me well through this purchase. I wish the world of online buying could have a thousand Snowy's. I am very pleased with the way you handled this and previous transactions, You have earned and gained my complete trust.
As far as my system sound goes, I am quite happy. I still have to find the best position for the speakers, the right height for a listening chair and other room factor adjustments.
The ribbons work well and the highs are detailed and natural. The bass only comes to life, and greatly so, above 10 o'clock of volume, but I suspect placement will enhance it. The midrange is clear.
I am enjoying discovering and uncovering the potential of the system. Should you have or get any information on any of the components in the form of reviews, company suggestions or tweaks, I would be most grateful if you could forward these to me for insight and improvement.
My wife and I sat listening to You Yo Ma playing his Cello to the music of Enio Morricone, It was the first time that I saw her enjoying classical music that much. The timbre of the instrument sounded good for speakers not yet played in.
My sincere thanks and best wishes for you and your team, I think of you as I enjoy the music and will surely highly recommend you.
Thomas and Family.
Hi Mr/s Law,
I just wanted to say that I've received the CD player this week in good condition.
Thanks for your service, you were excellent all the way through.
I'll definitely use your service again when I want to buy chinese Hi-
Thanks!
~Wehwah Yuen
Dear mr Snow , good evening ,
finally the new cables are arrived yesterday by TNT vith Esound dumper .
Today i have matched all and i've start to listen music .
congratulation , you are a great seller but much more great good listen and music fan/expert .
I don't believe that my ear hear .
Beautiful sound , great power and punch at low frequency , power and clear middle frequency , crystal and clear sound vith high frequency.
Absoluty with the spikers foot .
I'm very happy to have that , so i can listen my favourite music .
Thanks for all ,
Best regards
Fabio Peleggi
Hello.
The Dac 5 was received yesterday and tested in my stereo.
First impression is very good, I shall test more this evening.
Thank you for your support and good service.
I want to try a tube pre-
Best regards
Frode
Hi Snowy,
just a note to say the doge 6 cd player has settled in and is superb. I had auditioned the naim cd5x, Musical Fidelity a5, Primare 31 and many more and this is a class above them all.
It is very sensitive to placement and definately benefits from a decent power cord. As to power cords I have tried the Chord and Silvermann but not decided which to buy yet, let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks for your help and excellent service.
Gurjit
Dear Cattylink Employe
The Amp just arrived. I fell happy.
I have posted a Info on a german board.
Thank you again for your work.
Next time I will shurely ordere with you
Greetings
Johannes
DEAR SNOWY LAW
THE ITEMS ARE ARRIVED ON 14 MARCH, I’M VERY PLEASED WITH THE SHANLING SCD300 THAT SOUNDS VERY WELL.
THANK YOU
SINCERELY
EMANUELE BRAGHETTI
Dear Mr. Snowy,
yesterday I have received in perfect state the amplifiers Xindak XA8800MNE: they
are splendid and they work a lot of good, also the pre-
I want to thank you for the kind attentions to satisfy my order very well.
As I have seen on the site of the Xindak that is also the pre-
I still thank you and sincerely best regards.
Pierangiolo Turini
DEAR MR SNOWY,
THANK YOU FOR THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION YOU HAVE SENT ME.
I'M FULLY SATISFIED ABOUT THE PURCHASING PROCESS AND, PLEASE, SEND ME THE UPDATED PRICING LIST FOR MY FUTURE BUYING.
BEST REGARDS (ciao)
Paolo Tersigni
Snowy,
Doge 6 arrived the other day. All is well. Thank You for the pleasant
transaction. This is an incredable sounding player that replaced another
tubed player that cost 4x as much and is better in build and sound quality.
Truly impressive. Does your company carry the Gold interconnects that were
supplied with the Doge 6?
Best Regards,
David
Dear Sir,
just i want let you know that the CDP Doge 6 arrived on Thuesday in
perfect condition and i am very pleased with it.
Many thanks for your advice and service.
Sincerely
Andrzej Brzostowski
Dear Mister Law,
thank you very much for this smooth und comfortable transaction.
I will recommendating your company.
Sincerey
Karl Kohl
Hi
E5 arrived safely yesterday. No problems everything good and sounds good so far. Purchase was very easy with no problems at all and I was quite scared at first to purchase from such a long way away. There was no need to worry.
How much burn in does it usually need to obtain best performance.
Thanks Again.
Andrew
Dear Mr.Law,
yesterday I received your products,very well packed as always. I thank you for you
performed your great service perfectly, in a very efficient and fast way (less than
4 days from Hong-
Thanks once again for your great assistance and very efficient service.
Best regards.
AnselmoFazzone
Dear Mr LAW,
I did receive the cables and fuse yesterday.
The gold raincoat speaker cable is very fine on my system.
I compared the AC05 and the Gold raincoat IC. I find the Gold raincoat more detailed and warm.
My Klipsch are happy with the stuff I bought from you !
Shanling CDS100 -
I just changed the pre amp tubes for NOS ones (Raytheon VT231 6SN7 and Sylvania VT229 6SL7) and checked the bias (it that was correct).
Thank you for your advices.
David GARCIA
Dear Mr Snowy
Today I have received my amplifier.
The packaging arrived integral, fast delivery and amplifier perfectly working.
In near future I will still acquire from cattylink.
Sincerely,
Carlo Conti
Deas mr. Snow,
thank you wery much for your care and attetion for me( and patience too);
the goods are finally arrived today at my house .
I spend 4 hour of my time to cut the box and match all .
Finally, i have heard the sound.......
congratulation!!!!I'm astonished,...in my house i never ever immaginated to listen this sound.
At this moment my speaker sistem are the " Kef " but at the end the week i'll go to buy a new B&W type.
I'm very happy .
Thank you wery much again and all the best.
Fabio Peleggi
Hello Sir Law,
The jolida JD100S is wonderful. What a wonderful sound it has !
Everything was in perfect condition as if i had bought it in a store here. Good job you did.
Thank you very much , it was a pleasure to deal with you and i started to recommend
you in many french hi-
See you soon , i mean next year :-
Tony
Dear Mr. LAW,
Sorry for my late reply, I was busy preparing my relocation to Asia. Thank you very much for your sending the new remote, I duly received it and it works properly.
Again, thank you very much for the high quality of after-
I wish you excellent year-
Best regards,
Laurent MONTCOUTIE
hi
the cd player cayin cd17 is arrived this morning today. all is ok and well package.
i think i 'll place an order of jolida music van now.
so tell me me price with shipping for the jolida.(perhaps 2 cd player)
thank's
Hello,
All things arrived this afternoon.
The inner box was in good condition and absolutly no damaged.
just 48h for all the trip, considering the time lag.
The XA8800 sound great, warm and precise on 20 years old Tannoy
Edinburgh.
Just a little bit too cold for cooking, but OK if I want keep the tea
cool.
I just test the Shanling SLM-
Paris time 17:45 Hong Kong time 00:45
Best regards.
Dear Snowy,
Ok, then let me thank you one more time for the fantastic service en communication
and off course for a great cd-
Kind regards,
Mick Santifort
Thanks!
I have the stuff in hand, and it is all working fine. I am very
pleased with delivery and products. Only four working days from Hong
Kong is most impressive and just as fast as if I ordered it from
Norway. I might order from you next time too and recommend you to my
friends.
I have read a little about jungson ja88d and heard much positive. Do
you also recommend this or have you something your rather recommend
at this price. My speakers plays well with Shanling, so is the sound
close to Shanling. How will you compare ja88d to slm-
Best regards
Ole Joar Bruset
dear mr. law
the 2 gold raincoat cables arrived this noon. everything worked out
very fine. i would like to thank you very much for your great
business, help and products.
best regards, martin fahrni
Dear Snowy Law,
I would like to express my sincere thanks for your
service and an outstanding headphone amp from DOGE to
pair my 48-
CD player.
The DOGE 6210 is indeed, something that I haven't
heard at this price point before -
simply well defined and most of all -
with soundstaging that I'm most happy with. In fact,
the DOGE allows me to experience smooth BUT precise
delineation of complex passages without the sharp
brightness...Although I found my headphone very
sensitive to volume changes (due to low impedance),
everything stays just 'smooth', and amazingly
non-
ordered several 12AX7 tubes and EL84s for custom
tube-
My question is simply regarding the Xindak silver
fuse. My NAD C525 BEE CD player has 4 fuses in total -
is it safe just replacing one of those fuses with the
only one Xindak fuse? Or is it safer to replace all
four fuses with four 2A version of Xindak Silver
Fuses?
All in all, I am very, very pleased with your honest
service in the past to help making my decisions. I
would not hesitate to make a purchase from you again
sometime in the future. The DOGE 6210 is indeed
something that has to be heard to be believed.
My sincere thanks,
Andrew W.
Dear Snowy,
I have received the goods as ordered, in good condition and no damages at all.
The packing worked well. A very smooth transaction, thanks to you for excellent service.
I am very happy with the quality and performance.
Thank you very much.
Thomas van Wyngaard
Dear Snowy,
I got my MC-
As I said, I have several things in my shopping list. I hope I’ll continue to do business with you.
Sincerely,
Hyun Seok Lee from South korea
Dear sir,
a few weeks ago I ordered a Consonance M100 Mk6 in your website. The package was delivered quickly and with no problem of any kind, as I was hoping from your company considering the good reputation you have on French forums.
I wanted to give the Consonance a good listen before writing to thank you for your
help and advice, and I must say I am very happy with the product, which is very well
built and provide a very pleasant sound, with the beautiful timbres generally associated
with good tubes amplifiers but also a high level of transparency and no over-
Best regards,
Jean BURY
Boulogne, France
Dear SNOWY LAW
I don't have words to express my happiness for the
quality of the amplifier and for the efficiency and professionalism of
your job.
I hope to make soon other purchases from you, and surely
I will speak of you to others my impassioned friends of music.
Anchors so many graces.
Hi from Italy.
Rob
many thanks
Got the Xindak DAC5...brilliant service best ever from far east....looking for more now....
Neil
Dear Snowy,
the package is arrived.
thank you. If you want, You can add my feedback to your site. i write something here:
"Dear Snowy,
Thank you very much. The amplifier jolida 1501rc is arrived in Milan Italy after just three days.
It works perfectly. It can drive my dynaudio 72 (86db, 4 ohm) without problems, and the sound is warm and powerfull, also with the standard tubes.
Thank you also for the asistence via email. I've never found another seller so quick to answer to my questions.
I'm very satisfied about your shop!
Best regards,
Marco, From Milan, Italy"
Hi Snowy
The cd e5 arrived perfect
Listening to it now very very good
Surpasses my meridian and mephisto!!
Thanks
David
Dear Sir,
I well received the DOGE 6210.
Everything is working fine (few hours of test).
Thanks a lot for your great service.
Best regards,
Vianney
Sincere thanks to you Mr. Law for all the help!
Sorry to trouble you with fuse issue which was my fault but service Cattylink provided was 1st class in repairing it at my hotel and delivering another unit. Please feel free to use me as reference to other customers in US.
I bought US edition of Dussun V8i and matched it with Esound CD-
Here is an interesting article from Forbes magazine about high end Chinese audio:
http://members.forbes.com/global/2007/0129/058.html
Again sincere thanks...
Dear Mr Law,
just dropping you a note to let you know the M100 arrived safely on Friday.
The packaging is very solid, indeed!
As for the amp itself, it's a very good looking piece of equipment and
certainly gives a good owner's feeling. Performance wise it certainly does
not disappoint. Compared to my enormous Jungson, it obviously (and
fortunately since this somewhat special Jungson model retails in Norway for
usd6000..) cannot keep up on most "hifi parameters". I have therefore not
done any side-
judged M100 on its own merits. Here are my first impressions:
The most striking thing is the smoothness and musicality. I have never
before been able to listen to music basically non-
without suffering from listening fatigue. Now i can. There are no traces of
harshness and agressive sibilants and it has no problems driving the
Monitor Audios. Seems, by the way, as this is quite a good match. For being
Monitor Audio, the Silver S2 is actually leaning towards "warm" in its
sonic fingerprint and a tube amp seems to complement this aspect.
The M100 seems to do a very good job on perspective and one can easily
"see" into the sound and place voices and instruments in 3 dimensions.
Resolution is also very decent and it manages to present the air around
strings and, for instance, cymbals. Vocals are credibly presented and sound
very life-
rock more than I thought it would be. It seems to be able to go lower than
the loudspeakers are able to.
When things get busy, for instance a very virtous double-
Henning 豶sted Pedersen with Joe pass on guitar and Oscar Peterson setting
chords in the background, it tends to lose a bit control over the
background and the piano and guitar in this example are being a bit
obscured and difficult to trace accurately. But overall, I really think
this is a killer amp for the money and the best measure or evidence is the
fact that i have been playing music every awake moment since i got it into
the apartment!
Have on question in the end: The M100 seems to have a fairly laid-
character and having tested the Gold Raincoat interconnects versus other
cables i have in my #1 system, they also seem to be of the more "modest"
and laid back type. Unless I'm completely wrong, would you be able to
comment whether a pair of Xindak FA2 or FA Gold could make a worthwhile
improvement? If so, i'm inclined to purchase a pair together with my
pending order ciq350747 (assuming it doesn't detriment the freight cost).
Sincerely,
Vidar Skaar
hi
got the amp today, great sounding and super packing thanks a bunch=)
Thanks
m.v.h
Stian
Dear Snowy
I will just tell you that the Doge's have already arrived. We have only tried one of the amps so far and it works perfect. I'm shure the other one also works just as fine.
Best regards
Vegard Arneson
Hello Snowy!
AMP RECEIVED IN PERFECT SHAPE!
Thanks!!!
Carlo
Dear Mr Law
My new Cayin amplifier has been delivered this morning in France. Everything is OK. I want to thank you for the quality of your service: quick and efficient.
In any case, I'm fully satisfied with the sound result. And I think now to buy a
CD-
Thanks for all.
Yours sincerily,
Patrick Jolivet
Hi Snowy, I did received the E5 in good condition and sounds great. Thanks
for the excellent services.
Cheers,
CheeYiang
Dear Snowy,
The 2 parcels have been delivered by DHL this afternoon (!).
I have now to break in the Classic 16.0 and enjoy it...
Oh, thanks for the cables, it's a nice present !
Best regards and many thanks again to Cattylink team.
Nasser Adli
Hello! I have received Cayin a88t and cd player cdt17 about two week
ago but I could't test them till now . Today I have composed my new
audio system and I want to thank you for the very good products and
your professionalism. I hope to make other business with you.
Thank you again.
Best regards
Renzo Tostini
Dear mister Law:
I have receiver the amplifier today, and all i can say is AWESOME!!.
Nice amp looking, rich and powerful sound. If this is chinese hi-
european and american manufacturers will have to make an effort in terms of
quality to maintain their position, and, of course, they will have to lower
their abusive prices.
I am also very pleased with your service. Item was perfectly packed,
although courier hitted external box, internal one and amp were in perfect
condition.
I will recomend you to friends ;-
Thank you for everything.
Best regards.
Roberto Varela.
Hi Snowy.........received the E5 yesterday.....fastest shipping I'd ever seen! Going to set up and play it this weekend! Thanks!!!!!!!!! Mike Petranick
Hi
The preamp has arrived alive and well.
Beautifull item as soon i have run in the amp will post you a review.
Many thanks for the smooth transaction and best wishes
Edmee Engel from Luxemburg
Dear Mr. Snowy Law,
just confirming that the amplifier has arrived here in excellent condition
and as I've been informed, performing beautifully. I'm sure as it gets a few
hour under it's belt, it'll sound even better. Thank you very much again for
the very professional and efficient service, rest assured when the time
comes to acquire some more high end equipment, Cattylink will be the first I
contact. All the best for the future.
Kind Regards,
Peter Chalupa
Dear Snowy,
I received the unit in what seems to be record time!
I am listening to it as I type and I am very
impressed.
I only look forward to improved sound as time passes.
Should I find the need to purchase other audio gear I
will give your company every consideration!
regards,
Mark F Clement
Dear Mr. Law,
the delivery arrived this tuesday, everything ok!
The classic 16.6 sounds really good, together with my audio-
Thank you very much for the included gifts and
the fast service.
best regards,
Marcus Boehme
Dear Mr Law,
The e-
plugged it in and my could hear a difference. I should get a second
one of the PW 3 and 2 more of the power cables, very impressive
difference.
I then swapped in the E sound and it is indeed gorgeous. I first
listened to a couple of Dire Straits cuts, and found the E Sound very
nice indeed. Then Eric Clapton Unplugged, the combination of warmth
and detail is terrific. Creedence Chronicles, and John Fogarty never
sounded better. This is out of the box improvement, as it should be.
Thank You for all of your help/
Sincerely,
John Clark
Dear Snowy Law,
I am pleased to confirm receipt of the E Sound Singnature series cd player.
TNT delivered the package to me of Friday Jan4, 2008.
After listening to it only for a few hours over the weekend, I've got to
say that you've got a winner there. The player makes my speakers sound
great and my whole musical experience has moved up to a higher plane.
I have noticed significant improvement in the quality and tone of the music
all around -
base has a nice warmth to it.
I would certainly recommend it to any serious audiophile.
Thanks also for the efficient handling of my purchase request and
documentation.
Regards
Darryl Netto
Dear Snowy,
The items has arrived safely at my house. All has been unpacked and plugged
in exept the Yarland.
The first impression of the E5 is great! Much more detail and what a smack
in the bass! Never heard anything like it before!
I will let it play on "repeat" for a few days and will give you my
"judgement" then :)
Thank you for the wonderful cables. The powercables are just awesome with
their dimensions. Can try to give you a feedback on them to.
DHL has changed their way of doing things, so I did not have to pay taxes at
this point. A bill will be sent later so I do not know if everyting is OK
with that, but guess it is.
And now....MUSIC!
Best regards
Joachim
dear mr. law
the items arrived safely at my door. your packages were more than
superiour. the spider racks look great and work really well. the
esound e5 signature is absolutely beautiful and sounds even better
than i expected, truely one of the best players i ever heard.
many thanks for all your care and help. dealing with you was a real
pleasure and you can rest asure that i will return again when time
arrives for new hifi items.
many thanks and best regards, martin fahrni
Hi Snowy
The cd5 arrived perfect
Listening to it now very very good
Surpasses my meridian and mephisto!!
Thanks
David
Sent from David's iPhone
Hi
the player sounds very good
the packaging was also "on the best"
your consulting and sales service was "superior"
...but the last question:
a) how can i connect the Head-
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Thank^s for your Help
regards
Marco
Snowy,
The Esound E5 signature cd player arrived today, it is fantastic. Puts my Jungson Moon Harbour in the shade and it still is really only half burnt in!
Hope to deal with you again soon, as your whole service is 2nd to none. Definitely recommended. The 120 hr test, puts your mind at rest, about the possibility of receiving a DOA.
I just have to convince the wife that I really do need those extra items.
Must dash I have a lot more cd’s to try out.
Many thanks
Phil
Dear Snowy,
I wanted to let you know that I received the player in excellent condition.
It took some time for me to write to you because I had an urgent
business trip abroad.
Below are my impressions about the cd player.
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In short, I am very happy with the purchase, very good value for the money.
Once again, I thank you for your very friendly and close cooperation.
Please do not hesitate to publish my comments on your website if preferred.
Best Regards,
Yener
Dear Mr. Snowy.
Received today the ESOUND E5 Signature Edition (quick considering distance).
Thanks a lot for the serious and transparent clear business – good to do business and always be informed about what is going on.
About the packing – I really got nervous after opening the 1st box. Then upset to
see a 2nd box. And finally happy to se that the 3rd box was the CD-
Now listening for the first hour and already see that I have done an excellent purchase. Very good and deep bass….but controlled. Did not know that my speakers were able to make real music, not just an attempt of it.
All in all I am a happy customer and will write a review of this player once on my main system and a few weeks burned in.
Please feel free to use my mail in your web.
Thanks again and regards from Spain,
Miguel
Thanks Snowy.
I had time to listen to the player for an hour or two last night while it was running
from a NBS Signature power cord. The player is very impressive. I was using a modified
Marantz DV9600 previously for CD playback. Details are about the same but there
is definite improvement to soundstaging, more three-
Great job!
Regards,
Walter
hi
just letting you know the esound 5 cd player is here safely
this was packed to a very high standard
the player itself is a very beautiful and the sound wow excellent
thank you for your effort you put in to get it to me
thank you
all the best
Gary
Dear Sir,
I received the Esound Cdp and am really pleased with its performance. Am
finding it really hard
to turn it off, the sound is so intoxicating.
I would like some information on the Jungson Ja-
per pair and also the price of shipping to the same address which is Dubai
UAE. Am aware that these amps would be
heavy, so I would appreciate the best possible shipping rate.
Sincerely,
Travis Bastian
Snowy Law
I received the CD player. I can't believe the difference. More life better bottom end. Great choice. At dinner tonight my wife said to me that this CD player is cleaner sounding and doesn't need as much volume to sound good.
I'm still playing around with it. .
Any word on which amp I should purchase.
Keep in touch. If you any reference I'm there for you.
Thanks again Marc
Dear Snowy,
My E5 arrived! (only 3 days after sending from Hong Kong).
I don't want to write another long review. I think almost everything about
this fantastic player is said.
My search ist finally over. I had compared Naim, Creek an Unison Unico and
some others. These cost the double of what I paid for the E5.
I磎 sure these are high-
is like the sound: perfect,-
My primary fears were not justified, quite the contrary: This is the
best-
Thanks for the absolute trouble-
Best regards from Germany,
Aleksy
Hi Snowy,
I have been blown away by the E-
I am also very impressed with the gold raincoat cables you sent me, which have a very clear top end and very accurate soundstage. I would like to order another pair or two, can you let me know the price please?
Many thanks,
Michael Prime
Dear Snowy,
It's amazing how dramatically obvious the difference between the E3 and E5 is. I thought I would need some time to warm up the machine. The 1200 hours that you took to test out the player must have helped with the warming up time. I have read your comments about E3 and E5 again and cannot agree with you more. Yes, you are so right in your comments about density. That's the problem I have with other CD players other than E3. Many so called high end CD players tend to emphasie the staging and range of frequency without giving it more substance or density as you have correctly put it. It is like having the same amount of material and try to spread it around to fill the increased soundstage. This gives a hollow sound and even shrilling sound in the higher frequencies. This distorts the music and makes it become unmusical. What the E5 has been able to do was to have more substance to fill the large soundstage and hence every instrument and voice has pinpoint accuracy and substance. Yes, the bass extension and resolution is what makes the sound more real and more full. It certainly retains all the natural warmth that the E3 has and more. It is not an artificial warmth which the Marantz players tend to have but it is natural like vinyl. The most suprisising thing is that all my CDs have sounded better, including pop, rock, jazz and of course classical. This is irrespective of the quality of the recording. Again, many high end CD players have rendered poorly recorded material unplayable due to the thin sound it created. You can tell I am extremely happy with my CD player. I am convinced that E5 is certainly in the group of top 5 CD players irrespective of price. THANKS AGAIN FOR HELPING ME MAKING THE PURCHASE. YOUR COMMENTS HAS BEEN INVALUABLE AS IT IS ALL I CAN BASE ON FOR MY PURCHASE AND THEY ARE ABSOULUTELY CORRECT.
Conrad
P.S. I have not used the sliver fuse yet. I wonder how much more it will enhance the performance. I will a bit longer to try that option out.
Dear Snowy:
I am very much pleased to let you that the E5 has
arrived and I can't express how happy I am with the
entire experience:
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timely delivery -
very professional. The documentation is great!
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the swapping of my cambridge azur 640c with the E5 as
a front-
and an amazing imaging and soundstage. It is also very
natural and has a tube vibe to it.
Please feel free to post these comments on your site
and let me know if you need me to post them anywhere
for you and/or spread the word by further means. I
can't be happier with the entire experience and look
forward to future purchases.
ragards
Dear Mr Kwan,
After having listened to my new ESound CD-
I just wanted to send you an email expressing my satisfaction with the
player and the purchase as such. First of all, I must confess to being a bit
hesitant to overseas orders like this, but you have surely proven I had no
reason to be concerned. The service you have provided can be summarized in
one word: Outstanding! The rock solid packaging and the swiftness of the
delivery also made a good impression, indeed.
As to the CD-
obtainable within this price point. It digs out details from my records
which I have never before heard! The sound (compared to my past Cayin) now
has a depth, dimension and image which makes it virtually impossible to tell
that the sound is actually coming from the loudspeakers. The way instruments
and voices can now be placed in three dimensions is best described as
thrilling. Further it has in my ears an agile and fairly deep extending bass
which never fails to spit out the lower frequencies of my favourite jazz
albums featuring double bass. I'm also impressed with the lucidity and
abscence of harshness in the midrange and treble. Sibilants could previously
sometimes be uncomfortable, but not anymore. I put the player to the test
with some recordings that are horribly revealing and that can sound
intrusive and borderline uncomfortable on lesser equipment -
passed with flying colors. Even my girlfriend had to conceed she had never
thought a CD-
lots more, but will leave it with this because my intention was merely to
say:
Thanks for a great product and an equally great service!
Hi Snowy,
I am absolutely amazed. You and DHL are to be congratulated on remarkable service
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Most importantly the CD player is safe and well and sounds amazing straight out of
the box. Thanks you also for the spare cables and you care and attention thoughout
the transaction. Please feel free to name me for testimonial purposes -
Regards from England
Dear Snowy Law,
The Esound Signature arrived yesterday, and I must say how pleased I am with it's performance, and with the quality of service from Cattylink. The communications I have had have been first class, allowing me to buy with confidence despite the distances involved, and the potential for difficulty with overseas orders.
The Esound player is without doubt the very best value for money I have yet listened
to, and in my opinion a real threat to American and European "big names" in the $1500
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The packaging of the player for shipment was perfect, and I can guarantee to worried
potential customers that Cattylink don't take any chances with your item... bomb-
So, I am a very happy customer, who hopes to do business again very soon.
Please feel free to reproduce my comments on the website for the benefit of potential customers.
All the best for the future.