Hi there,
I drove like 500km to see the 3 of them. At the first dealer (Clearaudio and Rega) I first took a look at Concept: the sticker on the face plate (which read Concept) was askew. I have a thing for details...
So the first impression being not so positive we listened the Clearaudio / Concept MC / some Plinius / Kef LS50. Nice, detailed, punchy and ...askew. We had a talk about discounts, took a look at Rega RP6 and left for the second dealer (VPI). It was a demo VPI Scout 1.1 / Benz Micro Ace SL. The price was lower than the Concept's. The looks was so much better. The sound was incredible (Simaudio Moon / Arcam A19 - he knew I had an A19 / Focal Chorus 714 - he knew I had a pair of those). We had a talk and he dropped the price even lower so I took it home.
At the end of the day I realised that buying hifi is about music, gear, money, details
Now The Beatles are in the house.