I have owned the Lindemann for about 24 months and initially had some difficulty getting the sound that I wanted. As it turned out the unit is state of the art but only if used on a proper shelf such as the Finite Element, with proper ac filtering and only after removing the ferrite beads on the power supply cable from the external power supply. With these modest tweaks, it is state of the art, certainly for combined redbook/SACD playback. I do believe that there are better units if one wants only a single format.
