Question Cyrus upgrade path?

[Sandy Taylor]

Hi
I have had Cyrus kit for 15 or 16 years and have always stuck with it.
I have for many years loved the brand and taken advantage of their upgrade pathway.
My current CD player is the CD XT Signature which I upgraded to from the CD XT SE2 a couple of years ago.
What was the Cyrus flagship transport is no longer available, and neither is there an upgrade path to the new CDT XR or whatever the new model is named.

surely, not having the upgrade pathway to the new top model goes against ever Cyrus stands for?

 

[Al ears]

One assumes the only upgrade path is to sell what you currently have and buy the new model.
This is standard procedure for most manufacturers unfortunately.

 

[skinnypuppy71]

Time to move to the dark side.🤣

 

[Gray]

surely, not having the upgrade pathway to the new top model goes against ever Cyrus stands for?

They reached a natural limit to all the upgrades, before deciding on some ground-up changes.
As Al says, the new models are your new upgrade path.
I jumped from a (20 year old) Cyrus 8 amp to an XR-i7.

 

[plastic penguin]

Yes, the only option is to move on to the newer model.

Back in the 2000s Cyrus and Arcam really pushed the "upgrade the CD player". I wasn't convinced by it as I viewed it as a money down the drain policy.

 

[Gray]

I wasn't convinced by it as I viewed it as a money down the drain policy.

Neither was I convinced.
Probably why I never upgraded the base model Cyrus amp, or bothered with the separate PSU.

 

[12th Monkey]

I never used it, but thought it was a worthwhile option. The difference between an Arcam Alpha 7 and 9 might not have been night and day, but the upgrade cost in comparison with buying new probably made it more justifiable in cash terms.

 

[plastic penguin]

I never used it, but thought it was a worthwhile option. The difference between an Arcam Alpha 7 and 9 might not have been night and day, but the upgrade cost in comparison with buying new probably made it more justifiable in cash terms.

This was the DIVA range. Each upgrade IIRC was £400. If you owned the CD82 which retailed at £600 but you just replaced it with new 192, that cost £900. The maths doesn't make sense by upgrading the 82 to the 192.

Similar money upgrade the Cyrus CD6 to the 8.

 

[12th Monkey]

They did it for the Alpha range too - and a lot depends upon what you get for the old one if you sell it. It won't be worth what you paid for it. Assuming it's charitably worth half what you paid for it at resale, it's cheaper to upgrade than replace. Of course there's wear and tear to consider etc.

And if you think about it, why should it have been cheaper to buy a lesser model and upgrade that simply to buy the higher spec in the first instance? They would sell far fewer of the higher spec ones if that were the case, and the upgrade presumably meant checks, maintenance, a warranty etc. They wouldn't have come for nothing.