[quote user="InvisibleGoatMan"][quote user="the record spot"][quote user="InvisibleGoatMan"]Ok how about we throw a Primare CD21 nto the mix?[/quote]
Or the Eastern Electric Minimax......Roksan Caspian.....hell, there's more than just Cyrus and Cambridge at this level folks![/quote]
indeed. But getting hands on experience is also important...and certain brands are hard to come by.[/quote]
Hands on experience? For what how it sounds? To what end? It only really counts if someone's got your system and shares you listening preferences; everything else is a pencilled sketch until you sit down with the hardware yourself. Hell, you haven't even mentioned what sound you like and given the two players are tonally different anyway, that might be a good indicator.
I'll buy that some brands are trickier to come by, the Minimax for instance, but hi-fi's in danger of being a homogenised mess, with people only ever thinking about four brands, or whatever. they're good products (the Cambridge and the cyrus) but you'd think nothing else was out there if Sevenoaks didn't sell it. Tell you what, I'll make it easier, throw in Marantz's SA7001 CD/SACD player - £600. You can pick it up in many places and it's a stormer.