Back in 2008 i sold my arcam cd73 to a mate, we fell out etc and i have not seen him for years. Anyway we got back in contact and he still has the arcam, hardly used it and best of all he gave to me for free. I have not owned a cd player for about 4 years and have mainly been streaming flac as most people are these day's. I hooked the arcam up to my cyrus amp and dug out some old cd's, been rooted on the sofa for 2 hours, what a great bit of kit or more to the point, why did i dump my cd player for streaming when the former sounds clearly better? I also connected my musical fiedlity v-90 dac to the arcam which improved things further by adding a bit of refinement. I'm really quite chuffed and next time im in a musty record store buying vinyl i'll pick some disks up too