Good Morning All,
I bought my 8260 last month. I had many different players over the years, Quad CD-P (very nice), Audio Refinement, Sony 20ES, McIntosh MVP-841.
I bought the 8260 so I could listen to the SACD's I am collecting. So far the 8260 sounds much more refined, detailed and analog like with the 'redbook' CD's I played on the other machines. On 2 CD's I was very familiar with I heard new things my Quad did not reproduce.
It's SACD performance is superb. Listening to the old Mercury Living Presence and Living Stereo reissues is phenomenal.
Mine smoothed out with about 1 weeks continual use. I never turn mine off, so it is powered up all the time. What really suprised me was the high quality headphone amplifier. I plug in at night with my GRADO's and get wonderful sound.
Great Machine for the money. The concern of slow loading and reading does not bother me at all, in fact I really don't notice it.
Happy Listening,
hififile
I bought my 8260 last month. I had many different players over the years, Quad CD-P (very nice), Audio Refinement, Sony 20ES, McIntosh MVP-841.
I bought the 8260 so I could listen to the SACD's I am collecting. So far the 8260 sounds much more refined, detailed and analog like with the 'redbook' CD's I played on the other machines. On 2 CD's I was very familiar with I heard new things my Quad did not reproduce.
It's SACD performance is superb. Listening to the old Mercury Living Presence and Living Stereo reissues is phenomenal.
Mine smoothed out with about 1 weeks continual use. I never turn mine off, so it is powered up all the time. What really suprised me was the high quality headphone amplifier. I plug in at night with my GRADO's and get wonderful sound.
Great Machine for the money. The concern of slow loading and reading does not bother me at all, in fact I really don't notice it.
Happy Listening,
hififile