With well over 6,000 CD's in my collection, owning a top notch player is essential. I've been perusing the marketplace quite a lot over the last 10 years and have witnessed with increasing frustration, the audio industry's growing marginalization of this piece of gear. Not only is the rapidly diminishing number of audiophile quality machines of concern, but also the diminishing quality of the design of some of these, my Audiolab 8300CD for example, (reflecting the increasing lack of commitment by some companies to this end of the market).
