I much prefer the Kandy/Spendor combination, even over the Cyrus 8XPd. The Kandy just has more substance to the sound, whilst the Curus is agile and fast, it's just too lean for me, and all a bit gutless. I auditioned all of the Cyrus stuff including monoblocs, a XTe transport with the separate psxr and it was pretty fantastic, but that was nearly 9Ks worth of gear. I'm afraid the 8XPd lasted all of 2 hours in my 4 day home demo, which tells you how much I preferred the Kandy.
For whatever reason it doesn't have many fans on this forum, but this is one instance where I agreed completely with WHF's review, its a fantastic piece of kit, and you can pick up ex demo ones off fleabay for under £700 at which price its a ridiculous bargain.