[quote user="drummerman"]
Got a copy today and had a flick through. Perhaps I'm missing something but can't see either the cyrus 8 player nor Rega's R3 or 5.ÿUnderstand you can't list every product butÿimoÿthese are serious omissions especially when oddball entries such as pioneers oak whisky barrel speakers made the grade. Next year perhaps?
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Much the same thing applies here as with other instances of 'missing' equipment. Either the manufacturer has chosen not to submit the products to us for review, or the equipment itself is about to be replaced.
In the case of the Cyrus CD player, it was the latter: new slot-loading players are on the way (have been for some time, in truth) and the existing model won't be around for much longer. As with the Arcam instance mentioned elsewhere, that was information given to us by the manufacturer itself, so naturally we had to act on it.
As to the Rega kit: our relationship with the company has improved substantially in recent times, and we're currently working our way through the range (see the Brio 3 review in April, for example). However, the company prefers to move at its own pace when submitting review samples, despite its Awards success in 2007, so we've yet to see its latest speakers. We'll keep asking, and no doubt we'll get there in the end.