Luxman makes a good cd player, but Esoteric is a step up. Of course depending on what model. I had some luxman players back in the day. Once I switched to Esoteric, I never looked back. Currently using an Esoteric X01 Limited CD/SACD player. Will probably step up to one of the two piece Esoteric setup soon. But at the present time I am very happy with the sound and enjoying my recent upgrades with power cables and other tweeks which dramatically improved my reference stereo system.
